Xray have introduced an aluminium progressive shock system for the ultra short ULP shock absorbers of the T4’18 touring car. Coming in pairs, the set includes two aluminium inserts and two blank shock pistons that provide a progressive damper action upon compression, something that is regarded as a must-have especially on asphalt tracks.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Made for Xray’s T4 2018 and 2017 kits is the new brass battery mount set from 7075.it. It includes aluminium battery braces and brass mounting brackets with the latter allowing to loop the battery mount tape through the brackets rather then having to route it under the chassis for improved safety when running on abrasive surfaces. The mounting system is usable on the ’17 and ’18 kits and it is available from end of this week.
Source: 7075.it [7075.it]
Coming from Team Magic and made for the new E4RS4 touring car are 1.8mm and 2.3mm carbon fibre upper decks. Offering different flex characteristics, the thinner 1.8mm deck is best suited for the use in combination with the soon-to-be-released aluminium main chassis while the thicker 2.3mm variant was developed for the use with the standard carbon fibre chassis and when running on high-grip tracks.
Source: HRC Distribution [hrcdistribution.com]
Serpent have announced the signing of Chinese frontrunner, Fangzhou Zhang, better known as Rocket Zhang. Rocket is a multiple A-finalist at events such as the TITC, AOC and Chinese National Championships. Rocket will pilot Serpent’s Project 4X touring car at national and international events and he has the following to say:
Thank you very much to Serpent and Mr. Liu for giving me the opportunity to join the team. Serpent has always been a well-known RC brand, has a very complete product lines. I ran Serpent for the first time with the 710 GP to participate in the competition more than 10 years ago. With joining Serpent and be able to get the opportunity to help for researching and development as well as testing is a very wonderful thing. I do really honoured to join the team.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Available very soon from ORCA is their new Blitreme Pro brushless stock motor. Specially designed to achieve the highest possible power output for blinky stock racing classes, the motor is build using special processes and using hand-wound stators meaning only a limited amount of motors can be produced per week, making it a somewhat “limited edition” item. It is understood that the motor will become available in 13.5T, 17.5T, 21.5T and 25.5T specification and it will hit stores from end of November.
Source: ORCA [orcarc.com]
Coming from Capricorn is a new O.S. Speed based ONE .12 competition nitro on-road engine. The power plant features a rear ceramic bearing and an updated crankshaft timing, with the sleeve being also tuned accordingly. In addition the cooling of the engine had also been updated for improved overall performance in warmer ambient temperatures.
Hot Race Tyres have announced the signing of Italy’s Andrea Pirani to their team. The multiple national Champion and European podium finisher will use the company’s tyres at open races world-wide while also helping with product development.
Source: Hot Race Tyres [hotracetyres.com]
MCD have introduced a 15T double lever servo arm for the use with Savöx SV-0235 and Hitec 840 series servos. The servo horn is machined from high-quality aluminium and it comes anodised in a brownish colour to match the remainder of the company’s option parts. The arm is of a lowered design to optimise the steering geometry in order to providing better steering power transfer to the servo saver.
