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February 25, 2016

Bezerk RC YZ4 graphite upper decks & battery hooks

Australian company Bezerk RC have introduced two new optional carbon fibre top decks and a battery hook set for the Yokomo YZ4 buggy. First up are the two optional top decks. Both are made from 2.0mm carbon fibre and for low to medium grip conditions, the Supaflex version is made to allow more flex, resulting in reduced and more consistent lap times. The split design also allows some level of adjustment, like an on-road top deck, more or less screws can be fitted to fine tune the amount of flex.

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February 18, 2016

T-Works BD7 titanium king pin screws

T-Works have introduced a set of titanium king pin screws for the Yokomo BD7-2015 and 2016 cars. Machined from the same lightweight yet rigid titanium material as T-Works’ screws and turnbuckles the parts help to scrub some unsprung weight on the front suspension for improved suspension efficiency and performance.

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February 18, 2016

Mibosport offers pre-painted Yokomo buggy bodies

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Mibosport and Yokomo Europe have introduced pre-painted Yokomo 2WD and 4WD buggy bodyshells. Made in cooperation with DubiDesign and DF Creative the first bodies are available are for the YZ-2 and B-Max4 with YZ-4 variants become available at a later date. All bodies are genuine Yokomo parts, they come trimmed and are available in red, yellow, green, blue or pink designs and they include the original pre-cut decal sheets in the respective colour.

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February 6, 2016

SMJ BD7 foam bumper for Protoform LTC-R body

Speedmaster Japan have introduced a specially shaped foam bumper for the Yokomo BD7 touring car. The bumper is shaped to perfectly match the popular Protoform LTC-R as it supports the front of the body without the need to add foam strips as it is needed when running the body in a very forward-mounted position. Beside the BD7 the bumper will also fit SWorkz’ forthcoming CX11 touring car.

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February 4, 2016

Pro-Line 1/10th buggy front wings

Debuted at the 2016 Reedy Race of Champions, Pro-Line now officially introduce their all-new 1/10th buggy front wing and mount. The wing is placed in front of the shock tower and sits as low as possible for the cleanest air flow and lowest possible centre of gravity. Using the wing will keeping the buggy’s front end planted coming out of the corners, without doing the negative things that can come from a high centre of gravity wing while also pretty much retaining the overall look of the vehicle. The Pro-Line front wing sets include two wings in each package and each one has three different wing cut lines to adjust the amount of front downforce to what works best for the car and track conditions. The wing set is available for today’s most popular 2WD buggies inclining the Yokomo YZ-2, the Kyosho RB6, the TLR22 3.0 and the Team Associated B5M and they include tailor-made, digitally manufactured plastic wing mounts as well as mounting hardware.

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February 3, 2016

SMJ BD7-2015 low-profile shock towers

Coming from SMJ and made for the Yokomo BD7-2015 are low-profile shock towers. The parts are cut from high-quality carbon fibre and they allow the use of short shock absorbers such as the ones of the BD7-2016 on the older spec 2015 car. The shock tower set is available from mid-February in limited quantities.

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February 2, 2016

Vigor RC carbon fibre tweak rod

Vigor RC have introduced a carbon fibre tweak rod designed especially for the Yokomo BD7-2016 car. The rod features two milled-out openings to make way for the spur gear and to allow for access of top deck screw in front of the motor mount. The rod helps to easily and conveniently remove any chassis tweak even when using large diameter spur gears on the low profile chassis of the BD7-2016.

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February 1, 2016

Yokomo introduce YZ-2 carpet & dirt kits

Yokomo will soon have two new YZ-2 buggy kits available in the form of the YZ-2CA and YZ-2DT. Both build on the previous and now discontinued YZ-2 buggy and they feature a new aluminium main chassis and dedicated gearbox designs for high-grip carpet or low-grip dirt applications. The YZ-2CA carpet and astro turf specific car, as used by Yokomo factory driver Lee Martin during last weekend’s third round of the 2015/16 EOS, comes with a newly designed low layshaft “carpet spec” 3-gear transmission with new idler gear, long suspension arms, and a lightweight body, making the buggy ideal for all high-grip applications.

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