Xray have added to their line of high-performance pinion gears for the XB9E with the release of this 12T version. Manufactured from special steel for toughness and durability, precise tolerances assure unparalleled concentricity. Precision-cut teeth with chamfered edges the pinion comes with the M4x4 set screw.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
New from JConcepts comes the radically looking Nissan Armada short course truck body. The exterior of the Armada is built to cater to racer demands. Aggressive, high-impact headlight and grille treatment has an unmistakable straight-on look. Included in the front hood design are reverse louvers which are built-in to allow two air-escape passages. The famous Nissan fender treatment has an additional raised section which allows plenty of front tire clearance under load. The raised section is double purpose and also functions as an additional air escape feature while the low-profile roof line helps maintain a low centre of gravity allowing the SUV to transition the turns like a JConcepts heritage truck design. Two, rear, easy to trim, Hi-Flow cut-outs chiseled between the SUV rear windows along with upper access for ream-able hole cut-outs complete a polished air release package. The body comes with decal sheet and window masks and is a direct fit on Slash, SC10, XXX-SCT, SCT-E and SCT 410 trucks with others may fit with additional trimming.
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Last weekend I was back on board a Delta Airlines flight bound for the US, while it felt like only a few weeks since I last crossed the Atlantic Ocean I was little shocked when I discovered its actually been 5-months since we covered our last American event. On that occasion my trip was to Dallas, Texas, for the JConcepts Indoor Spring Nationals at Mike’s Hobby Shop when thanks to track owner Mick Darnell I also got the chance to visit Gas Monkey Garage from the Discovery Channel hit show Fast & Loud. Luckily when traveling to the US from Ireland Dublin Airport has one of only a few purpose built facilities outside of the North America that allows US bound passengers to undertake all immigration and customs inspections prior to departure meaning no queuing on my arrival at the other side. As part of the process one must fill out the details of your trip including its purpose and the address at which you will be staying and this lead to a funny reaction from the US immigration officer. While he found the purpose of my trip, reporting on a model racing car event, unusual enough when he saw the hotel address he responded in an slightly amused tone ‘Your staying in Flowood!!!’.
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The third round of the Spanish touring car nationals was held at the Clubcar10 circuit in Bilbao. The weather during the weekend was very unpredictable giving the drivers a hard time to prepare and adjust their cars. Come Sunday racing started in wet conditions again but the track dried up for the finals. At the end it was Jon Ander Lorenzo who took the win in the Stock class in front of round 2 winner David Perez and Koldo Imanol Seras, last year’s winner of the Bilbao round.
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The final round of the 2013 Portuguese nitro on-road nationals took place at the Maiorca track in the North shore of Portugal. The weekend started with a slow low-traction track but as practice went on the grip slowly came up. Overall the attendance was lower than in the previous rounds as the championship was almost decided. In Sunday’s qualifiers Xray’s Bruno Coelho, who had the best chances to win the 2013 titles, took TQ in both the 1/8th and 1/10th class and later he went on to easily win the 1/10th class some five laps in front of his team mate Rogerio Araujo. This handed Bruno the 2013 national championship title. The final of the 1/8th class was a different story though. Bruno led the race until the moment when a track marshal wanted to get another car back on track and didn’t see his RX8 coming right at him. In the accident the marshal got injured and Bruno’s car suffered damaged so he fall back to 8th place. After a short pit stop to get the damage fixed he went back to the track and ended the race in second positions with only 3 shocks on his car. The runner-up spot was enough to secure him the 1/8th championship after taking the 200mm class title the same day.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Team Associated have new low-friction ball cups available for all cars that use the company’s standard #7230 ball cups. The redesigned cups help to free-up the front and rear suspension to let it work more efficiently. Included in the set are 12 rod ends.
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Exotek introduce this heatsink for the use with pan and F1 cars. The special design allows the air to flow through the large fin section while the back of the heatsink gives enough clearance for high axle F1 or low axle 1/12th cars. The low-profile design also gives adequate body clearance and vented openings allow ‘open can’ motors to breath. The heatsink is machined from 6061 aluminium, comes in blue or black colour and simply clips onto the motor with no fasteners needed.
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After introducing the updated B-Max4 III a couple of days ago Yokomo now announce the soon release of the new B-Max2 Ver.2 2WD buggy. Included in the kit will be some of the option parts Yokomo have to offer for their 2WD platform as there is the recently introduces aluminium chassis with composite side pods, aluminium idler gears for the transmission and steel diff gear internal. The chassis will greatly improve handling especially on medium to high grip surfaces while the idler and internal diff gears make for better durability and also a more efficient drivetrain. The buggy that can be built in mid or rear motor configuration will hit the stores from End of September.
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