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November 10, 2007

Xray Column – New Electric Touring Car

Xray Column - New Electric Touring Car

The 13th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about the process and thoughts behind the development of the company’s new touring car, the T2’008.

Before we started with the testing and development, we first built very demanding and difficult tracks at our in-house indoor track. Of course we did the same for outdoor testing but not as much as indoors, as the weather this year was changing very rapidly and as such the outdoor track conditions were changing too fast… a good recipe for bad testing. At our indoor track we have a special environmental control system that keeps conditions very stable, and as such we could run from morning ‘til night under the same track conditions, thus assuring objective results.

Read the full column here.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

November 7, 2007

WinZax RC MTX-4 solid axle

WinZax RC have announced the release of this solid front axle for the Mugen MTX-4 1/10th scale 200mm touring car. Made from high quality stainless steel, the axle is very hard and durable, yet light weight and claims to provide much more responsive acceleration, more stability coming out of corners or during heavy braking and it enables higher overall speed around twisty tracks.

Source: WinZax RC [winzaxrc.com]

November 7, 2007

Hitec HFP-20 Digital Servo Programmer

Hitec have released this digital servo programmer for use with their 7000 series G2 digital servos called the HFP-20. Also featuring a servo tester, this programmer allows you to set many functions in the servo such as overload protection settings which enables you to shut down the servo if there is too much load current, maximum angle of servo rotation, direction of rotation, servo speed, fail safe settings, end point position, neutral position and more. The servo testing function works with all brands of servos and allows you to test the receiver voltage, servo resolution and other parameters and can be done either manually or using a built in automatic test function.

Source: Hitec [hitecrcd.co.jp]

November 7, 2007

Exotek Racing Micro Arbor

Exotek Racing have released this foam tire truer arbor for micros and minis, designed to work with any foam tire truer that has an 8mm shaft such as those made by Hudy, Ofna, Corally or Integy. Not only that but the Exotek Micro Arbor is modular in that you select the wheel lock that matches your vehicle having designed 3 different styles to work with many different vehicles and each of the 3 styles are available separately. The blue wheel lock is suitable for the RC18T, RC18B, RC18R, MINI T (front and rear), Mini Slider (front and rear), MINI LST, Mini Inferno and Vendetta, while the yellow wheel lock works with the M18T, M18 PRO, M18 (requires M18 wheel hub) and MICRO RS4 (requires M18 wheel hub) and finally the red wheel lock works with the Scalpel and Recoil.

Source: Exotek Racing [exotekracing.com]

November 6, 2007

K-Factory LX Shock Absorbers

K-Factory have released these new LX Shock Absorbers which have been based on the Team Magic G4S shock and then had almost all of the shock absorber replaced to make sure it met and exceeded strict specification and performance criteria. Said to have performed so well they are now included with the Limited Edition G4+ they are not only smoother and stronger than the original version but also easier to use and are fully compatible with the majority of on-road cars, both gas and electric.

Source: K-Factory [kfactoryracing.com]

November 6, 2007

East Civic 200mm body shell

East Civic body shell

Japanese brand East have released this 200mm touring car body shell based on the Honda Civic. Similar in looks to other bodies already on the market this new shell sports 2 ribs on either side of the car which increase stiffness to the area while at the same time allowing the shell to be very lightweight. Other details include ribs on the bonnet that channel the air over the lowered windsreen and back to the rear wing. The Civic, which has been extensively tested by Central RC, provides the user with very responsive, high grip and well balanced handling characteristics.

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November 6, 2007

Panther T157 MT38 Series Gator tire

Panther tires have released these T157 MT38 Series Gator tires which are designed to fit Losi 8ight T wheels as well as other 38 series wheels. Sold in both soft and medium soft compounds, they weigh in at 122g each and are 2.5″ wide and 5.5″ in diameter.

Source: Panther [pantherteam.com]

November 6, 2007

Team Magic G4RS – Photos

Team Magic G4RS

Our site sponsors Team Magic have released the first pictures of their latest 200mm touring car, the G4RS. We wrote briefly about this car at the end of October when it was first announced and as you can see from the feature list below, it does sport quite a few changes over their previous, European Championship winning, G4 and G4+. The main changes are a new narrow chassis, new rear end, different internal ratio, new shock absorbers, new 2-speed gearbox as well as a number of other upgrades to aid performance and durability.

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