August 14, 2007
The 11th installment in the Xray column from Xray owner and chief designer Juraj Hudy is now online. In this months column, Juraj talks about after market parts and goes about justifying the use of genuine performance enhancing parts from Xray as opposed to those anodised bling bling parts from other companies. After the huge initial success of the NT1 worldwide, aftermarket companies jumped right in and introduced plenty of aftermarket “bling-bling” option parts for the NT1. Looking at the parts I just can only say one thing: “You get what you pay for.” Of course anybody is free to…
August 2, 2007
Jason Breiner from BMI Racing posted these images online of these new balance tools by IRS. Essentially they are two hemispheres with a pin sticking out of them and what they do is help you set the balance of your chassis by allowing the car sitting on top of them to lean, showing how the car is balanced. The pins are inserted into the cars chassis plate along the center line and gravity does the rest and the beauty of them is you can leave them in the chassis as you play around with weight distribution receiving instant confirmation. Click…
July 29, 2007
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up: > oOple has his complete report from the Buggy Euros now online – Link [oOple.com] > Nanda podium finish at Sunshine Coast Cup Challenge – Link [buggy-sport.info] > Pavidis and Hughes win Rd3 2007 SoCal Saturday Series – Link [neo-buggy.net] > Linus Thern wins the Swedish Buggy Nationals – Link [minioffroad.se] > Announcement, Nitro Cross World Champs – Link [neo-buggy.net]…
July 24, 2007
…you enter the code ‘redrc’ in the comments section when checking out. RC Pro Center is a new and ambitous online RC Car shop based in the US, and caters for a multitude of racers by selling many different scales and classes of cars, as well as spare parts and accessories for those cars. If you are in the market for circuit cars or buggies, gas or electric, tires or radios, be sure to check out RC Pro Center. You can go to visit their site here, or click on their banner under the 2nd news story on any page….
July 22, 2007
There seems to be new brush setters coming out all the time and today we have a new one from Kose for use Yokomo Max motors. Coming in anodised blue, it looks almost identical to the version released last month by Much More, and as expected it does all the things you expect a brush setter to do. Coming with a 7.8mm cutter it allows you to cut your brushes in 0.0, 0.3 & 0.5mm offsets. Source: Kose [www.kose-rc.com]…
July 21, 2007
Starting next week, Europes best electric buggy racers collect in the center of Finland, in a place called Vaasa, to battle it out in 2wd and 4wd to be crowned the 2007 European Champion. Drivers have already started arriving and our partners oOple are there too, and combined with his racing Jimmy & wife Vicky will be covering the full event. Fridays report is already online, covering the travel to the event as well as the first impressions of the track. The track is quite large and all ‘features’ are covered in carpet to give a consistent surface. The largest…
July 20, 2007
A summary of other news pieces from around the internet today in our Red RC Round-up: > Close up of the HoBao Hyper 8.5 of Robert Batlle – Link [rcmag.com] > Kawada release a number of different size ceramic balls – Link [kawadamodel-co-jp] > Crono RS7 of Davide Tortorici close up – Link [rcmag.com] > RB Products report from the European Championships – Link [rbproducts.com] > Crono RS03 of Nico Rodriguez close up – Link [rcmag.com] > Kimihiko Yano have lots of new parts from CRC online – Link [kimihiko-yano.net]…
July 18, 2007
We wrote about the much anticipated 4wd electric buggy from Team Associated, the B44, when it was announced a week ago. Team Associated have now put the full information from their new car online, including lots of up close chassis pictures such as the one above, but strangely there was no overall chassis shot or from the bottom either, perhaps parts haven’t been finalised. Click here to see more pictures… Source: Team Associated [rc10.com]…
