Phat Bodies have released their ‘Smoothee’ body shell for the Durango DEX210. The body features a smoothed out clean design and includes a front wing for improved downforce at high speeds. Made from quality 0.75mm thick polycarbonate it comes supplied with overspray film and ‘Phat’ stickers.
View another image of the Smoothee here
Avid have introduced this series of delrin 1mm offset insert bushings allowing for a new range of tuning on your RC8.2 using your kit supplied suspension mounts. After hours of testing, the Avid team is offering up this simple solution to allow racers to customize their suspension to get lower rear roll centers and adjust rear toe-in to 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 degrees as well as being able to move all of the other pivots on the chassis. Available in 1 dot (4), 2 dot (4) and 3 dot (4) or as a complete set of 12.
Source: Avid [avidrc.com]
Further expanding their line of Finnisher bodies, JConcepts have made their popular body shell available for the Xray XB9. Increased windshield angle provides a steady force upfront during mid-flight wind gusts on large jumps while the forward cab placement changes performance / visible bias which helps steering rotation in low traction corners. The side-pods have a strong and chiseled look, including a recessed area in the rear which allows another option for air-escape. The chassis side-guard to body fit has been tightened up which helps eliminate large empty voids that contribute to mid-flight directional changes. The area behind the cab has been greatly lowered exposing more of the engine heat-sink allowing more heat-escape while the V-stepped feature which is a highlighted styling cue of the Finnisher buggy bodies has been incorporated toward the rear and allows an additional area that can be trimmed to allow air-flow through the body.
Source: JConcepts [jconcepts.net]
Serpent have released a new internal gear-set that fits all Serpent Cobra gear differentials. An improved gearmesh / tooth-shape creates an even smoother diff-action than before and testing so far has showed that when using the new gears you need to use at least 2000 cst heavier oil than before. This will make the diffs run more consistent, also during those long finals. Serpent have also released these strong orange tire bands for gluing of 1/8 buggy and truggy tires. Strong, durable, flexible rubber bands, with strong tabs for extra grip they come in a pack of 4.
New from ZZRacing, for the HB D8 & D8T and HPI Vorza & Apache C1 is this front hub carrier and rear hub set. Machined from 7075 aluminium and anodised red they aim to improve stability and steering reaction.
View the rear hub carriers here
Serpent introduces these machined aluminum zero steering blocks, or as some call them 0 degree aluminum spindles, for the full Cobra 1/8 line. Very durable, they are made from 7075 T6 aluminium, which has been anodized. The new part will create more on throttle steering, this will be very noticeable especially on corner exit. Fits all cars in the Cobra line.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Seen at this year’s toy fair Hobbytech have released their new Spirit EP 1/8th scale brushless chassis. This high spec competition buggy features a narrow 3mm lightweight chassis plate design with optimal weight distribution and ultra low center of gravity. Other highlights include machined aluminium rear hubs and steering knuckles, hard coated shock bodies, lightweight aluminium front and rear adjustable toe-in plates, a 2 piece motor mount and carbon fibre shock towers.
Futura 2012 have announced their new offroad tyre additive. After a lot of successful products for 1/8 on road scale like the Futura V1 and V2, now comes this particular formula dedicated to offroad cars, Futura 2012 Jager. Tested by many top drivers in Italy, it is now available for all drivers all over the world. Jager helps increase the grip of tyres in all track conditions making the cars easier to drive and immediately faster.
Source: Futura [tyreadditive.com]
