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October 9, 2007

CRC 1/12th scale Open-X pod

CRC have announced details about their new Open-X pod for their 1/12th scale chassis, which features a new pivoting center standoff that moves with the rear pod. This center stand off braces the center shock mounting area and the top plate, allowing the racer to remove the left hand side of the top plate and the left hand side of the bulkhead. This open side frees up a good amount of space for motor wires and sensor wires as there is no interference with the wires on the Open-X pod. This was all possible because of the original Gen-X design with the vertical X-pod rear brace. This rear brace, combined with the center pivot standoff, allows the use of the new Open-X graphite top plate and the wide open left side aluminum bulkhead.

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October 8, 2007

The new Kyosho Evolva M3

Kyosho Evolva M3

Red RC got the exclusive lowdown on the new Kyosho Evolva M3 when we talked to the cars designer Takashi Miyashita. Essentially a completely new platform in 1/8th scale from Kyosho, the new M3 has been designed to fix all the issues that the team had with the previous Evolva through strengthening and optimising the cars construction. When asked to explain what was new on the car, Takashi replied “only a few of the parts are existing parts”, with the main new part being the chassis which has been designed to accept a smaller receiver pack, making for a narrower chassis plate.

Read the full report here.

October 7, 2007

Erik Dankel wins Oktoberfest Cup

Erik Dankel wins Octoberfest Cup

Last weekend saw the annual Oktoberfest Cup run at the Turkheim track, and is considered as the final race in the 1/8th scale season for a lot of drivers in this region. This years event saw Mugen racer Erik Dankel, racing the new MRX-4X, take the pole position in qualifying ahead of his brother Jan, but due to an unfixable problem caused to his car he withdrew and gave the position to the next driver. In the final Erik won easily ahead of team mates Norbert Mayrhofer in 2nd and Markus Stegmann in 3rd.

Source: MID [mid-mugen.de]

October 6, 2007

CRC Race Cuts TC tires

Calandra Racing Concepts have released a high performance, low cost, touring car foam tire for the racing market called Race Cuts, which are a 27 mm wide touring car tire mouted on CRC’s 51 mm dished wheel. This new tire offers a performance based larger diameter wheel (51 mm instead of 49 or 50) with a 27 mm width so its suitable for all the current touring cars and while the rules now allow the wheel to be 53 mm, a rim this large forces a very small side wall making the tire a one or 2 run tire at best. The new TC Race Cuts come trued to 58 mm in diameter and are available in 2 compounds, magenta and a split double purple/magenta.

Source: CRC [teamcrc.com]

October 5, 2007

IDM Engine Line-up

The new U.S. importer for IDM engines and accessories, XS Power, has contacted us with information on the latest line of motors from top Italian Gas on road racer Danielle Ielasi. The engines are manufactured by Picco Micromotori, for whom Ielasi works, and are aimed at competition racers in all the classes that their engines are used in. Available in .12, .21, .26 and .28 sizes, IDM have engines for both on road and off road, with power and great fuel consumption a major feature of these motors.

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October 4, 2007

Speed Passion BL Competition 2.5R

Powers International have announced that they have started selling the new 2.5R brushless motor from Speed Passion. This competition level touring car motor, has about as few winds as you can get and yet it has a smooth power delivery, while the internals are kept from melting by the built in rotor mounted cooling fan. Combine this with the air vents on the motor casing mean that there is little need for an external fan in normal racing conditions. This motor works with LRP BL speedos, but due to the 2.5R being capable of destroying the ESC, it is recommended to only use this motors with 5 cells.

Source: Powers Int [powers-international.com]

October 4, 2007

Xray NT1 Foam tires

Xray have released a range of mounted and trued sedan foam front (27mm) and rear (30mm) tires, developed and designed for high competition nitro racing. The high-grip foam tires have been solidly bonded to Xray’s newly developed Starburst wheels which have been purposefully designed for high-competition racing. Xray used its long-term experiences in composite mixture alchemy to bring forth completely new composite mixtures targeted at nitro touring wheels resulting in super light yet ultra strong and stiff wheels. The tires come packaged in a sealed air-tight vinyl bag, to keep the tires fresh as long as possible, and are available in a wide range of shores.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

October 4, 2007

Hot Bodies Circuit 23T motor

Hot Bodies have announced the introduction of a range of new 23T motors for use in the popular stock touring car class in Japan. Extensively test by the HB development team, they claim to have created one of the strongest 23T motor on the market and it is now available in 3 different versions. The S30 has a lot of bottom end power, the S40 has been optimised for technical circuits while the S46, having a lot of top end power, has been created for larger tracks.

Source: HPI Japan [hpiracing.co.jp]