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April 23, 2009

Florida State Series round 5

The FSORS season has now crossed the halfway mark and rolled into 555 Raceway this past weekend. Even with several other events going on in central Florida, the race nearly 140 entries. This track is known for brutal conditions, and often blows out badly when a larger event comes to town. The track crew did an excellent job of keeping the surface together with only minor issues throughout the weekend. The Florida sun and strong entry count helped to lay down a great groove and soon racers were switching to harder compound tires.

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April 23, 2009

X Factory Quick Change battery kit

X Factory, responding to input from customers, releases a kit to allow faster removal of the batteries from the X-6 Squared and X-60 without damaging the chassis. Chief Engineer Paul Sinclair said, “Many team members live and race in places where LiPo batteries must be removed from the car for charging. Also, many who use cells instead of LiPo want to remove them to charge or store. The X-6 Squared’s CF battery strap is held in with flat head screws which go into posts in the chassis. Constant installation and removal of these screws will damage the threads in the chassis, and this new kit eliminates the problem. Many owners of the X-60 truck have converted from the Kit-supplied nuts to thumb screws, but that will not work for the X-6 Squared because the body sits too low. The new Quick change kit contains four 1” long set-screws that can be installed in place of the standard bolts with an Allen driver and four low-profile locking nuts which are just low enough to clear the buggy’s body.”

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April 22, 2009

Hot Bodies Megabite Pinks & T-Dish Wheels

Hot Bodies have released their Megabite mini-pin tires in a pink compound which are suitable for hard & dry off-road surfaces such as hard-packed clay, light dust conditions, and regular clay. With hundreds of short square pins arranged around the carcass providing fantastic traction on the corners and a central double-row of extra-wide treads giving you excellent acceleration and stopping power. The pink compound is their new extra soft compound for extra grip in low traction environments. HB’s new T-Dish yellow wheels utilize the maximum diameter allowed under the current rules and regulations. This makes for quicker response from the tires due to less sidewall flex. Their specially formulated plastic offers the perfect balance between rigidity and pliability, giving them impact resistance and flexion in the jumps and bumps yet maintain rigidity in the corners.

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April 22, 2009

Mugen MBX6-T 1/8th truggy chassis

We’ve previously brought you CAD images, and of course the full list of features, of the MBX6-T and today we can bring you photos of the actual car itself. The Mugen engineering team has created the MBX6T which will follow the same exceptional handling, strength, durability and overall performance of the MBX6 Buggy, with special features such as hard coated big bore shocks with adjustable collars, graphite front and rear shock towers, hard anodized machined chassis with optimum balance and weight distribution, lightweight drive system, every area of the MBX6T was designed with performance and durability.

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April 21, 2009

HPI Cyber 10B titanium turnbuckles

New for the HPI Racing Cyber 10B are these sets of super-strong Grade 5 titanium turnbuckles. Beef up your 10B and make racing adjustments fast and easy with these new items. To fully outfit the buggy with titanium turnbuckles, you will need two pairs of 46mm turnbuckles for the camber links and one pair of 34mm turnbuckles for the steering links.

Source: HPI [hpieurope.com]

April 20, 2009

Ryan Maifield is RCX Buggy Champion

Presented by “The Dirt” at Radio Control Car Action’s RCX trade show, Ryan Maifield battled it out with some of the country’s top racers to claim the 2009 RCX Buggy Title. With only a short three minute main event, Ryan had to use a balance of patience and speed to claim the title over Cody King. With crazy huge jumps and limited turn marshals a premium was placed on navigating the course without mistakes and with his Reedy powered RC8 Maifield made good decisions to take the victory. This is the third year in a row that the RC8 has won the RCX Buggy event with Ryan Cavalieri taking the victory in 2007 & 2008 and now Maifield in 2009.

Source: Associated [rc10.com]

April 20, 2009

Team Associated SC10 RTR

Team Associated have unveiled the RTR version of their 1/10th scale ready-to-run electric truck, the SC10. Based on the 6-time ROAR Nationals-winning RC10T4, the engineers behind the doors in Area 51 made the SC10 both all show and all go. It comes ready-to-run with a factory finished short course race-truck body, short course style wheels and aggressive tread multi-terrain tires, all which have been designed to look just like the full-size race trucks that run in short course off-road series around the country. The world of high-performance 1:10 scale electric R/C has never before seen this level of scale accuracy.

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April 18, 2009

Caster Racing Fusion RTR Brushless truggy

Caster Racing have announced the release of their Fusion 1/8th brushless powered RTR truggy. Coming supplied with ‘half’ offset LPR rims and tires and new CNC machined T6 6061 high quality aluminium parts throughout, it is equipped with a powerful 80A Brushless ESC with Fusion 36/74 1880 KV XXL motor, front CVD and 4 dog bones as well as a 9kg full metal steering servo. Well balanced thanks to the battery placement this car shares most of the same parts with the K8T GP making the conversion from gas to electric not a problem.

Source: Caster Racing [casterracing.com]