August 26, 2009
The 33rd installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj takes about fitting in development and testing of their various projects around their very busy Summer racing schedule. As with every other team, we have worked very hard before this particular battle. Work has been done both off and on the track; the huge amount of work would not be feasible for a single person but rather required the combined teamwork of the racing and R&D teams. After the Off-road warm-up in Austria back in May, we…
August 13, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAPI5lB8FsI Following on from the first two parts of our new series of videos that offers in-depth tips from pro drivers, comes the 3rd of a 5 part series with Tamiya Racing Factory team driver and new European Champion Jilles Groskamp. In this episode Jilles guides us through the first steps of assembling a complete Tamiya TRF416WE chassis from scratch, showing all the tips and tricks along the way, with final assembly and tweaking of the chassis still to come in the final 2 videos….
August 12, 2009
Titanium Racing have released their latest Pro competition spool and F1 stealth CVDs for the increasingly popular and successful TOP Photon. The Pro competition spool features aero-grade 7075 T6 Alloy body and sleeves and high impact Delrin drives. The system incorporates the unique locking system as featured on all TR Pro competition spools. The car is complimented by the new range of already successful F1 Stealth CVDs and the driveshaft length is optimised at 43.5mm (pin to pin measurement). Titanium Racing’s test driver Ricky Copsey using the new components at Sundays BRCA Junior National support race and broke the track…
August 12, 2009
…Corally diff grease the item has a reasonable amount of lock upon building. As with the front, the universal CVD driveshafts are equipped with plastic outdrive savers to avoid damage on the rear aluminium outdrives. New to the 09 model are plastic uprights with vertical ballstuds that do away with the machined aluminium/horizontal ballstud items found on the previous car. The rear shock tower is modified the same way as the front item: it sports more, and closer located, holes for the shocks in combination with new camber link positions. Wishbones of the medium compound ‘35’ type are standard as…
August 10, 2009
…testing of their XB808 buggy. While testing we exchanged cars with Martin and as usual I felt his car to be much more sensitive with a lot more steering. To get an independent opinion, we gave both my and Martin’s cars to Bayer for testing. Ironically, he reported the opposite: my car had more steering and my shock set-up was more to his personal likeness! That made it very clear that everyone prefers a different handling style and what seems to understeer to one person may seem to oversteer for someone else. Read the full column here. Source: Xray [teamxray.com]…
July 28, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOMu6Fu3orI Following on from the first part of our new series of videos that offers in-depth tips from pro drivers, comes the 2nd of a 5 part series with Tamiya Racing Factory team driver Jilles Groskamp. In this video, Jilles shows us how to strip down, clean and rebuild the ball differential on his TRF416WE. Future episodes, which will be shown here and also on our YouTube channel (see link next to the search box) in the coming weeks, will tackle the final assembly and tweaking of the chassis….
July 28, 2009
UK based company Schumacher’s range of ‘narrow’ electric touring cars has come a long way, since starting in 1996 with the SST, which turned out to be a very successful TC platform. What followed was the exquisite Axis mid-motor cars that proved difficult to set-up but as fast – if not faster – than the SST range of cars. The current Schumacher TC platform is called Mission and has evolved from the Mi2(EC), Mi3 and Mi3.5 that went back to a more conventional design and suspension geometry compared to the Axis chassis. The latest incarnation is the Mi4 that offers…
July 28, 2009
…the semi’s Jorn Neumann had engine problems causing him to run at a much reduced speed down the straightaway, infield power was ok, but he was really at a disadvantage on the massive straight. After the semi, I asked him what the problem was and he seems to think it was a problem with his carburetor. He said he will be replacing the carb for the finals. The final was a 45min event. Which is more than an endurance test for not only man but machine? Having all the components work together for that long of a race sometimes can…
