Coming from Serpent and made for the SRX4 1/10th 4WD buggy are carbon fibre steering arms of different specification. Cut from 4.5mm carbon fibre material the steering knuckle extensions come in the three different designs of “0”, “-1” and “-2” to fine-tune the steering Ackermann characteristics. The arms are marked for easy identification and are available as a full set of three pairs including hardware.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
FT have introduced their new 1/8th and 1/10th on-road clutches. After a long development and refinement period, FT Line is now officially releasing the new line of clutches that feature a new disc, new shoe materials and a new machined lightweight flywheel. The 1/8th clutch is available for several cars such as ARC, Capricorn, Shepherd, Serpent, Mugen and HB with the 1/10th clutch becoming available for Xray and Capricorn cars. Both include a Nickel-plated clutch bell.
Team Losi Racing have introduced the Direct Drive System slipper eliminator set for the 22 line of buggies and trucks. Designed to replace the somewhat heavy slipper assembly with a lightweight direct drive system the kit includes a new aluminium slipper shaft, an aluminium spur gear hub and a two different size spur gears. The set is designed with stock racing in mind where low rotation masses are highly beneficial and the spur gears are also available separately in 75T, 72T, 69T and 66T sizes.
Source: TLR [tlracing.com]
Trinity have introduced Modified versions of their popular Revtech 24K Stock racing motors. Available in 2.5T Drag Racing, 3.5T to 5.5T off-road and 6.5T to 9.5T off-road variants the motors feature thicker pure copper solder tabs, infinite timing adjustment, grade 5 ball bearings and a special gold-colour anodising to make them stand out.
Source: Trinity [trinityrc.net] | Image: Kimihiko Yano [kimihiko-yano.jp]
Coming soon from TLR is the Laydown Transmission Conversion for the 22 3.0 buggy. A first image of the conversion shows a new aluminium main chassis plate, new laydown gearbox halves, a laydown motor plate, an aluminium idler gear, aluminium rear uprights as well as a carbon fibre battery mount, miscellaneous hardware and a new bodyshell. The conversion allows to convert the standard 3.0 transmission into the now-standard laydown configuration as it is widely used on high-bite surfaces such as carpet, astro turf and prepped clay.
Source: TLR [tlracing.com]
Coming from Xray are composite front and rear shock towers for the XB2 Dirt Edition buggy. Available in a hard and a medium compound the parts help to adapt the suspension stiffness to various track conditions with the medium towers being ideal for very low to low-medium traction while the hard compound parts are best suited for low-medium to medium-high conditions. The front and rear towers are available separately.
View the rear shock tower here
JConcepts have introduced the 1989 Ford F-250 monster truck bodyshell. The must-have body of the 1980’s was featured on several of the most popular full-size monster trucks during this generation and always proved to be popular among the Ford enthusiasts and always wreaked havoc on the competition. The 1989 F-Series carries over the same body style from the previous generation, yet sports a new rounded front clip that improves vehicle aerodynamics over its predecessors. The softened body lines around the rear of the bed and large fender arches around the wheel wells provides the scale monster truck look. The body features flush-fitting grille and headlights, wrap-around parking lights, a minimalist grille and an accurate and clean-looking Ford/JConcepts decal sheet. The 10.5″ wheelbase and 7″ wide body comes clear and it fits a variety of R/C monster trucks including the iconic Tamiya Clod Buster.
German company PSM have introduced new carbon fibre shock towers for the Mugen MBX7R 1/8th off-road buggy. Cut from semi-gloss 5mm carbon material the shock towers offer refined upper shock mount positions with the rear tower also sporting an updated camber link geometry. The parts are a direct fit and they are available now.
View the rear shock tower here
