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April 10, 2009

Racers Edge 1/8 Hauler & Hobby Roller

New from Racers Edge are 2 new hauler bags for conveniently transporting your race equipment to the track. The 1/8th scale car hauler bag (above) will work great for 1/8th scale buggies and smaller scale R/C cars. It features 2 small parts boxes, 1 medium box, 1 large car box, smooth rolling wheels, advanced telescoping aluminum handle, 2 large pockets for setup boards and more and now features black corrugated plastic boxes. The top is large enough for two Plano boxes to hold your tools or parts, and now has a section of elastic rings for tool organization. The Monster Truck hobby roller features smooth rolling wheels, advanced telescopic aluminum handle, reinforced carrying handles and internal shelf. The lower deck dimensions are-24.5″ long, 18.5 ” deep, and 11.5″ tall. It easily accommodates the HPI Savage XL.

Click here to see the Hobby roller

April 10, 2009

Piktor Rush 2.2 Upgrade kit

French buggy maker Piktor have released a new suspension upgrade kit for their Rush 2, to upgrade it to version 2.2. Designed for the high American jumps, the kit comes with a full set of extra big bore shocks, 2 new aluminum shock towers, which are also available in carbon fibre as seen in the photos, and finally 4 aluminium shock supports for the lower suspension arms. This is a simple upgrade which gives the car a more conventional shock mounting setup compared to the cars normal lay down configuration. The kit will only be available as an upgrade for the Rush 2.

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April 9, 2009

Hudy 1/10 Touring Set-up wheels

New from Hudy are these CNC-machined premium-quality aluminium set-up wheels for electric and nitro 1/10 tourin, which allows for perfect, precise and repeatable set-up adjustment and tweak correction. Precision-machined to exacting tolerances, each alu set-up wheel in a set is perfectly matched. When checking tweak on a rubber-tired touring car, using standard rubber tires typically gives non-precise and non-repeatable measurements. Rubber tires are never perfectly rounded, so when checking tweak one tire can lift earlier than another but this does not always indicate a tweaked car. Tire roundness and insert weight is different from one tire to the next. Also when checking tweak on a foam-tired touring car, the differences between tires are even greater than with rubber tires. Each foam tire has a different diameter after each run due to tire wear, making it impossible to check for tweak because the tires can give very misleading results. In this case the alu set-up wheels are the best tool for checking tweak.

Click here to see the wheels mounted

April 9, 2009

Hot Bodies DSJ-1SS & DSJ-2ST digital servos

As seen at the toy fair in February, Hot Bodies have released their digital servos, which combine speed, reliability and toughness in one highly efficient unit. Available in two dialled-in versions, both are very strong yet fast, but the DSJ-1SS is fastest with an amazing transit time of 0.06 seconds per centimeter of movement with a strength of 13kg per cm, while the DSJ-2ST is nearly as fast at 0.09 seconds per centimeter, but has a whopping 16kg per cm of holding power.

Click here to see the DSJ-2ST

April 9, 2009

Matrix GPR Class Foam tires

Following on from yesterday’s release by Team Titan of a body shell for the new GPR 230mm class, comes new tires from Italian company Matrix Racing Tires. Made using their usual high quality foam, these new tires have been fitted to 32mm wide front tires and 44mm wide rear tires, and come available in all the usual shores you would expect.

Source: Matrix Tires [matrixtires.it]

April 9, 2009

Euros 200mm Gubbio – Announcement

The organisers of this years 1/10th scale 200mm European Championships in Gubbio, Italy have been in contact to inform us about their new event page. The site outlines all the necessary information, such as news, hotels, directions etc., for the event that takes place from the 20th to the 26th July. The track will also host a warm up race from the 9th to the 10th of May, and you can enter the race now if you wish to race on the track prior to the big event, or you haven’t qualified for the Euros but want to race on a great track against some super quick guys.

Check out the official event site here.

April 9, 2009

Xray Rubber Spec conversion set

Xray have released this rubber spec conversion set for the T2’009 and T2R Pro, that sets the motor position more forward without changes to the chassis. By having the motor more forward, it increases on-power steering and makes the car turn more easily and precisely. The set includes top-quality front & rear graphite upper decks, 38T composite solid axle, 38T diff pulley, and forward motor position front & rear belts.

Click here to see the motor position difference

April 9, 2009