Specially designed for the Mugen MTC1 touring car is ArndtCraft’s new Extreme Cool fan shroud. The part is a direct fit to the MTC1 and it accepts most standard 30mm fans units. The 3-D-printed part will significantly reduce the operation temperatures of both modified and stock motors, it comes without the required hardware and it is available now.
Avid have released several products for the popular Mugen MBX8 buggy in the form of a couple of aluminium, titan and carbon fibre goodies. Available are aluminium shock standoffs in two and four-piece packs, +4.5mm offset rear alloy standoffs that provide more traction on low-bite tracks as well as a four-piece low-traction set that includes a pair of standard length standoffs for the front and +4.5mm standoffs for the rear. Also new are hard-anodised aluminium steering posts, hard-anodised front anti-twist arm inserts as well as titanium shock pins. Next up are 0.8mm, 1.0mm and 1.2mm carbon fibre arm inserts that are available separately for the front and rear A-arms and also as a complete set including a pair of each. Last but not least are bearing sets for both the MBX8 nitro and MBX8 Eco E-buggy kits.
T-Works have introduced a set of carbon fibre chassis stiffeners for the Mugen MBX8 buggy. They attach to the left and to the right of the centre diff area for improved pitch and torsional stiffness, which comes in handy especially on smooth high-bite surfaces. Included with the two carbon braces is suitable mounting hardware.
Coming from Ben Sterling RC are several new air filter foam sets for a range of 1/8th nitro buggies. Available as natural, un-oiled foams or pre-oiled with a specifically designed bio filter oil, the foams are sold in packs of ten. The bio oil is a very tacky, but very breathable fluid that is biodegradable and non-toxic while still being fuel and water-proof. The sets are available for the TLR style air filters, the Mugen MBX8 and Kyosho MP9 TKI4.
View the other air filter sets here
Mugen Seiki Europe have introduced their new MTC1 Team Edition limited edition electric touring car kit. An exclusive to MSE, the kit includes a 1-piece carbon fibre top deck, an additional rear anti-roll bar wire, belt tensioner, lightweight wheel axles, aluminium spool outdrives as well as the optional floating battery mount, lightweight front upper arm turnbuckles and also the recently introduced soft shock and diff O-rings and the heavy duty diff internals kit. Also included are additional parts to recreate the latest setups as used by Mugen’s Robert Pietsch and Viljami Kutvonen. The kit is made solely for the European market and only available through the MSE dealer network.
Please note that the upper image of Robert Pietsch’s personal MTC1 is just for reference.
Source: Mugen Seiki [mugen.eu]
Coming from T-Works and made for the Mugen MBX8 Eco 1/8th electric buggy are two new screw sets. First up is a 156-piece set of 64-grade titanium fasteners that includes UFO button head screws. The bolts are highly corrosion resistant, they scrub a good amount of weight and also add a bit of visual impact. The second new kit is a 167-piece set of gold-colour steel screws. Keeping the weight the same as the standard kit screws the set mainly adds a bit of bling.
View the golden screw set here
Coming from T-Works and made for Mugen’s MBX8 1/8th buggy are two new aluminium optionals in the form of brake cam levers and lower shock mount pints. Starting with the brake cam levers, the parts are machined from 7075-T6 aluminium and they come hard anodised to protect the surface from wear and tear. The parts help to scrub valuable weight and there come in sets of two.
Made for the Mugen MBX8 buggy is JConcepts’ latest titanium turnbuckle set. The base of the turnbuckle design is centered on a beefy 5mm square titanium, for the camber and steering links, which gradually tapers down into a thread base design which accepts the rod ends featured in the kit. The focus of the styling surrounds the lengthened adjustment area and the finned cuts that rotate about the centre. Included is also a 3mm Fin titanium steering drag link for a complete look and finish to outfit the kit. The JConcepts turnbuckles are produced with left and right hand threads with the left being conveniently marked for easy orientation.
