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June 17, 2013

Team Grid BalancePro Zero

Team Grid have released what they claim is the most sensitive wheel balancer for touring cars. Touring car wheels are much lighter than off-road wheels and can benefit from even more precise balancing and the BalancePro Zero is the tool that can deliver the extra racing edge needed for modern touring cars. It uses a true parallel twin blade knife-edge balancing system to provide Zero friction balancing on its continuous contact area, that no other ball bearing based system can offer. Even balanced wheels from a bearing based balancer may still appear unbalanced on the BalancePro Zero. Ultra sensitive it can level perfectly on any surface on its three adjustable legs with the aid of a bubble level. Its balance rod is precision ground with an ultra light weight Delrin hub adapter and a finger guard to ensure total safety.

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June 15, 2013

New Sanwa competition & budget digital servos

Following the Sanwa ERS-971 LRP introduce more servos made by the Japanese manufacturer. Available are also the ERS-961 (0.05s/12.3kg-cm) and ERS-951 (0.06s/11kg.cm) standard voltage digital servos and the ERS-962 (0.07s/25.3kg-cm) digital high voltage servo. The ERS-962 and ERS-961 offer coreless motors, dual ball bearings and tough metal gears. With the speed and torque the 962 sports it is ideal for the use in 1/8th on-road and off-road vehicles while the 961 is best used in electric cars, buggies and trucks. The 951 though is an economically priced high-performance general purpose offering. Last but not least come the 94835 (0.13s/8.9kg-cm) and 94846 (0.18s/10.8kg) digital budget line servos. The two five digit servos are ball raced, economically priced and ideal to replace the steering and throttle servos of RTR cars and trucks.

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June 14, 2013

Sanwa ERS-971 digital low-profile servo

Sanwa have a new low-profile servo available in the form of the ERS-971. Offering a toque of 9.2kg-cm and a speed of 0.06s the servo is waterproof and ideal for 1/10th touring car and off-road applications. It features a coreless motor, metal gears, dual ball bearings and a blue anodised middle heatsink case.

Source: LRP [lrp.cc]

June 14, 2013

Pirani RC shock & exhaust springs

Pirani RC introduce their new set of shock springs for both 1/10 and 1/8 on-road cars as well as exhaust springs for the manifold and muffler. Starting with the shock springs, these are made from high quality steel, come colour coded and are resistant against fuel and acids. The springs come as pairs in short and long configuration and are selected and matched to ensure equal damping characteristics left to right. Also new are manifold and pipe springs. They are made from a special steel and received a hard coat treatment to ensure a long life. They come in two variants for 1/8th engine and manifold connections and for 1/8th and and 1/10th manifold and pipe couplings.

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June 10, 2013

T.O.P. Sabre FD2 & FF03 body post plates

T.O.P. Racing introduce body post reinforcement plates for the Sabre FD2 and Tamiya FF03 front wheel drive cars. The parts are designed to reinforce the body post area of the cars in order to make for a more solid platform for all high centre of gravity FWD bodies many 2WD touring car rules books call for. The carbon fibre plates come pre-assembled with rubber O-rings and are available as wide or narrow version depending on the wide of the body’s roof section.

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June 10, 2013

Yeah Racing TT-02 aluminium drivetrain options

Yeah Racing introduce two new option parts for Tamiya’s TT-02 entry-level 4WD touring car in the form of a main drive shaft and drive shaft joints. Starting with the main shaft, the part is CNC-machined from high quality aluminium and much stiffer than the stock part, making for a more efficient power transfer. Also new are suitable aluminium main drive shaft joints. They replace the kit parts with a much stronger solution for improved efficiency and added rigidity plus they come with an optional O-ring that is meant to provide a more aggressive steering feeling. Both the drive shaft and the joints come in blue colour.

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June 7, 2013

KM Racing front servo mount set

KM Racing introduce this complete front servo mount set for the H-K1 on-road car. The set is designed for the use with the MV-001 chassis and makes for equal steering characteristics in left and right hand corners due to the centreline mounting. Included are blue anodised servo mount parts and all needed hardware.

Source: KM Racing [km-rc.com]

June 7, 2013

ARC R10 2013 kit

ARC introduce the R10 2013 electric touring car kit, an evolution of the original R10, winner of the Super Stock and Modified classes at the 2013 ROAR Indoor Nationals. The updated car features many improvements and performance enhancing details such as optimised chassis flex, a lower centre of gravity and reduced weight. The car builds on a 2.25mm main chassis, features a floating servo mount, all new low profile shock towers and big bore short body shock absorbers as well as new lightweight front and rear bulkheads and a new motor mount with further milled out section and better accessibility to large size pinion gears.

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