May 12, 2012

STRC Exo Terra aluminium option parts

STRC have released a whole range of aluminium option parts for the Axial Exo Terra buggy. Add great looks and prevent your chassis from buckling during hard landing and crashes with these aluminium Front and Rear Heavy Duty chassis brace. The front brace features a high quality graphite steering upper plate and a solid one piece aluminium front chassis brace, while the rear features a heavy duty one-piece brace from the chassis to the rear gear box. The front steering system features a graphite steering rack that has more material around the screw holes and will not bend like the stock aluminium piece. Available in black, green, gun metal, orange, silver.

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May 11, 2012

DE Racing wheel sticker disks

DE Racing is proud to release a new product to highly personalize your buggy. Simply named wheel sticker disks, this ‘Old School’ concept has been brought back to life to further set your car apart from the crowd. Available for both their Borrego line of 1/10 and 1/8 scale buggy wheels, these precut high quality vinyl stickers create a two-tone effect, highlighting the wheels unique bead lock ring. Whether it’s the high tech appearance of carbon fiber, the high visibility of fluorescent colors, or simply ‘mud plug’ matte black, these disks are sure to turn some heads.

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May 11, 2012

TeamSR TLR 22T front shock tower

For the highly popular TLR 22T TeamSR have released this 4mm thick carbon fiber front shock tower. This functional yet aesthetically pleasing hop up is manufactured from true quasi-isotropic chassis grade carbon fiber and comes with pre-glued wet look edges to cut down on the much dreaded preparation time, recessed holes for the body mounts as well as all the necessary hardware required. This tower is a direct replacement of the stock tower and intended for the use with the TLR 22T only.

Source: TeamSR [teamsr.co]


May 10, 2012

Xceed Spark V1, Kruzer E & Lola 012 shells

Xceed have given a few updates to its line of on road bodies for 2012. The 1/10th 200m Spark V1 features a new design, a new rear wing, improved traction thanks to a new side profile and overall a better balanced shell. The 190mm 1/10th scale Kruzer-E is a super smooth handling body design for high traction carpet tracks. Finally for 1/8th scale the Lola 012 has a newly designed front end with extra dams for extra steering while the sides are the highest legally allowed which provide great stability. Available in standard and lightweight versions. All bodies are made from high quality polycarbonate and are supplied with window masking and decals.

View the other bodies here


May 7, 2012

JQ Products THECar Yellow Edition

JQ Products have introduced THECar ‘Yellow Edition’ the follow up to their popular first buggy release. During the end of last year JQ was hard at work testing a lot of new ideas and able to improve the handling enough they felt they had to release a new car, the Yellow Edition. The changes have mostly been made in an effort to make THECar both faster, and easier to drive and include a new narrower more flexible chassis, new body shell, improved shocks and will come supplied with a number of extra tuning parts.

View the new features here


May 4, 2012

Xceed Pro XF racing fuel

Xceed have released a new blend of racing fuel with 16% & 25% onroad fuel and 25% nitro for offroad cars/engines called Pro XF. Made using a mix of high quality methanol, nitromethane, mainly mineral oil and a percentage of some types of synthetic oil. The castor oil will protect the engine and creates a very thin black film which creates a better seal inside the engine. The fuel is supplied in handy nylon containers in 2 and 5 liters.

Source: Xceed [xceedrc.com]


May 4, 2012

Sweep Racing 308 Double Action tires

Sweep Racing’s all new 1/8th scale 308 Double Action carcass has a very unique patter with a pair of flexible spikes facing in opposite directions to grab at anything in any conditions. Thanks to the unique design, the 308 delivers consistent lap times throughout it’s life due to the accurate balance achieved in design and construction quality control. Also the tests, conducted by Renaud Savoya, show that when the top of spikes wears out, the bottom of the step pin making contacts with the surface to keep your machine in touch with the track during long main races with minimal ballooning. Available in four compounds (Silver, Blue, Red & White), before June.

Source: Sweep Racing [sweepracing.com]


May 4, 2012

T-Work’s Racing aluminium option parts

T-Work’s Racing have released a number of new parts for a variety of cars. Starting with offroad there is a line of hard coated aluminium A-arm bushings for the Hong Nor & Jammin X3 Sabre buggies as well as hard coated aluminium brake cams for the same cars. For on road there is the a set of hard coated 7075 T6 pivot balls for the Mugen MRX-5 & MTX-5 as well as a set for the Xray RX8 and NT1.

View the pivot balls here