Coming in early 2018 is Team C Racing’s TM8E 1/8th E-buggy kit. The car will make use of a new lightweight aluminium chassis, new front and rear aluminium chassis stiffeners, a new aluminium front plate and a redesigned aluminium servo mount. Other features include new design arms with carbon stiffeners, an updated centre diff mount cover and a new aluminium motor mount. The kit will hit stores February.
Made for the use with JConcepts’ Sling King Mega Truck body shell as well as comparable vehicles are the new Fling Kings 2.6” Mega Truck tyres and Dragon 2.6” wheels. The Fling Kings is the first true to scale, RC Mega Truck tyre, specifically designed to throw mud, dirt, gravel and grass just like the real thing. They are designed for the new JConcepts 2.6” Dragon wheel, making them even more scale in appearance. The bead of the tyre features a 3-step surface which provides a massive amount of area for glue to rest giving the utmost security for full-throttle mud runs. No details were spared on these mud runners, the V-type tread is replicated to a T and the top of the tread carries a slight recess adding a little touch of depth to the appearance. The soft blue compound which is recommended for dirt, grass and asphalt feels noticeably mushy and sticky and has expanding characteristics and tend to “pizza cutter” during flat out high-speed runs. The gold compound feels harder to the touch, excels on polished or hard surfaces and expands less during high-speeds. Fling Kings tires are complete and include open cell “React” inserts to support the grippy tyres.
JConcepts have introduced the new King Sling Mega Truck body shell. From the mind of Dennis Anderson, the wild and wooly King Sling was born. The ultimate Mega Truck, born in Poplar Branch, North Carolina, has a wild side, combining the brute power and durability of a monster truck with the madness of a mud racer. King Sling is a beast, and JConcepts has worked together with designers and builders to replicate this body shell to fit on a host of popular chassis including the Axial SMT10. The slate was once again wiped clean and the form started to take shape in the computer to fit and finish on a selection of vehicles. A lot of hand dressing took place to ensure the details were correct on the shell itself, not to mention the iconic wing shape and rear scoop treatment. Fred “Freestyle” Reep sat shotgun on this project reviewing the style, shape and decal creation to ultimately please the man, the myth the legend, Dennis Anderson. No superstar race machine would be complete without decoration. The King Sling is the first JConcepts body to include two decal sheets in the package that covers logos, signatures, flames and branding recognition.
Coming from VP-Pro is a new 6.5” 1/10th buggy rear wing. It is made from tough yet lightweight 1.0mm polycarbonate and its shape will ensure high stability, low drag and thus great high speed and jumping characteristics and a low overall centre of gravity. The wing comes clear and it fits most 1/10th 2WD and 4WD buggies.
Source: VP-Pro [vp-racing.com]
OS Engines have announced the OS Speed 21 Adam Drake Edition. Available in February as just the engine or as part of a combo set that comes with the T-2090SC pipe and 85mm longer manifold. Designed to Drake’s specifications and suitable for both buggy and truck, it features a new cylinder liner with new porting, newly design DLC crankshaft with double tungsten counter weight and a different bore x stroke (16.40 x 16.55 mm). The engine also comes with carburettor reducers in 6.5mm and 8.0mm, a ceramic rear bearing and is supplied with the familiar 21J carburettor and P3 Gold plug for better fuel mileage.
Source: O.S. Engines [os-engines.co.jp]
Coming from Team Losi Racing are the new 16mm Evo shock springs for the 8ight buggy platform. This full line of springs is closer together in rate for finer tuning as well as a constant coil diameter while also being longer in length. They have been found to offer much better performance in all conditions, especially when it comes to bump track handling and landing. To run the springs the LOSA5435 spring cups of the older 1.0 and 2.0 kits have to be used. The springs are colour-coded and they come in six front and seven different rear hardnesses.
View the other Evo springs here
Nosram have introduced their new 2018 range of Graphene-2 LiHV battery packs. The range is lead by the 8000mAh TC Stock Spec battery, a standard-sized affair for maximum power and run time at a weight of 330g. Also new is the 6400mAh TC LCG Stock Spec battery that offers a reduced height of 22.5mm and that is an evolution of the 2016 IFMAR ISTC World Championship winning battery. It weighs in at 274g. Next up is the TC Ultra LCG battery with 5500mAh capacity. Offering a super low height of just 20mm and a low weight of only 230g. Swinging over to the shorty size, Nosram offers the 5800mAh Shorty Stock Spec, a 25.1mm high capacity offering. The range is rounded out by the Offload Stock Spec 6600mAh 4S LiHV pack. Weighing 634g the battery offers maximum power and a high capacity. All batteries can be charged to up to 4.35V per cell but are also meant to excel when charged to the standard 4.2V. They will hit stores end of December to beginning of January.
Source: Nosram [nosram.com]
Hot on the heels of the RC28T 1/28th micro stadium truck comes Team Associated’s RC28 micro 2WD buggy. The scale replica of AE’s iconic RC10 buggy is only 143mm long but packed with features such as a integrated proportional servo, an integrated ESC/receiver unit, a built-in battery and of course a replica body shell as well as scale tyres and wheels to resemble Team Associated’s first ever racing buggy. Also included in the set are a 2.4GHz radio system and four AA batteries for the transmitter, making it ready to go right out of the box.
