Coming from Active Hobby and made for the TA07 Pro club-level touring car are several aluminium and carbon fibre option parts. First up is a transversal aluminium chassis stiffener that connects the outer chassis side rails for improved torsional stiffness. The part comes machined from high-quality aluminium, in blue or black colour and it includes mounting hardware.
Serpent have introduced the new V2 gear differentials and belt pulleys for the World Championship winning 748 1/10th 200mm nitro on-road car. Starting with the differentials, the V2 variant features an improved design with the case offering a greater oil volume for improved consistency during long runs and a new bleeder hole makes building, setup and maintenance much easier. Also part of the package are deeper profile gears with optimised gear fitment and super lightweight spring steel diff axles. On top of this the new diffs, that are available as separate front and rear variants, feature moulded-in steel bushings for additional stability and durability and they must be used with a longer side belt and the new V2 belt pulleys, described below, that offer a larger diameter for improved efficiency and acceleration. The pulley set is available in a black colour standard and white colour low-friction variant.
Coming from Schumacher and made for the Mi6 touring car are new carbon fibre lower arms. More flexible than the kit arms the carbon fibre variants offer a 10g weight saving per four wishbones and they also increase traction on most surfaces while improving car drivability and consistency. The arms were in use by the Schumacher team at last month’s IFMAR Worlds, they helped Elliott Harper to score the win at the recent BRCA West London National round and they are available as separate front and rear sets.
Coming from Zeppin and made for the company’s Voice Lap System is the new mini transponder. Small and light of weight the transponder is ideal for cars such as Kyosho’s Mini-Z and many other mini and micro-size vehicles as it also offers a wide input voltage range of 4V to 8.5V. The device measures 16x16mm, it weighs in at 1g without wire and it offers a total of 14 channels for lap counting.
Source: Zeppin [zeppinracing.com]
Coming from PSM and made for the Team Associated RC8B3 are 20mm aluminium spring cups. Machined from high-quality 7075 aluminium and sporting a black semi-gloss coating for anti-wear characteristics and looks the spring retainers work with all 20mm diameter shock springs, making for a larger selection of usable spring makes and types. On top of this does a longer lower section improve the cup’s support on the lower ball ends while machined holes allow dust and moisture to exit the retainers for reduced dirt build-up.
Coming from Serpent is the big bore shock absorber set for the Viper 977 1/8th on-road car. A standard feature on the recently introduced Evo-2 kit, the shocks will improve the overall traction and steering of the car while being easy to build, setup and maintain. The precision machined dampers come as pairs and they sport threaded alloy bodies, machined Delrin pistons, coated spring steel piston shafts, pre-oiled X-rings and included are both short and long ball ends to build either a pair of front or rear shock absorbers. Not included are the needed springs but these can be taken from the existing shock sets.
Hobbywing have introduced the new Justock 3650SD G2 brushless stock motor. Sporting a redesigned heavy duty multi-piece case for cool looks and improved heat dissipation, the fixed timing motor is of a sensored design and it comes with pre-soldered 3.5mm bullet-type connectors. Other features include a rebuildable design, double insulated windings and high-precision Japanese-made ball bearings. The 540-class motor is available in a range of stock-specific windings including 10.5T, 13.5T, 17.5T and 21.5T.
Coming from HB Racing are hard front and rear A-arms sets for the D815 series off-road and on-road vehicles. Standard on the RGT8 1/8th nitro GT car the arms are also usable on the D815, D812 and the forthcoming E817 buggy as the harder material used improves handling on high-traction surfaces while also reducing the vehicle’s sensitivity to variations in traction. The front and rear arms are available separately, they include composite arm inserts and mounting hardware.
