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April 1, 2022

Exotek 22 5.0 alloy drag gear box set

For TLR 22 5.0-3.0 drag racing builds, Exotek have produced this high performance heavy duty gear box, motor plate with shock tower and alloy idler gear set. All alloy gearbox construction keeps your gears in perfect alignment for true mesh and no gearbox flexing that causes binding at high rpm’s. A direct bolt on for the TLR 22 5.0-3.0 series it has a raised diff setting for improved cvd axle angles, +1mm higher diff than on the 5.0 laydown gearbox’s highest setting. An extra long slotted motor plate gives larger gearing range options and the heavy duty alloy motor plate is designed to minimise flex (unlike carbon fibre) to maintain proper gear mesh. The included 4mm thick carbon fibre tower features optimised geometry for proper ride height and shock angles and it is drilled out to accept optional Exotek pro body mount plate or the stock wing mount. The set includes a hard anodised 7075 alloy idler gear for better durability.

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April 1, 2022

Serpent SRX8 GTE 1/8 4wd EP RTR

Serpent now offers the SRX8 GTE in a Ready To Race package, to make this car even more attractive to a broader customer base. Featuring top-quality components throughout such 4wd with cardan shafts, compact & durable gear-diffs, aluminium motor mount, super low longitudinal battery boxes, compact speedo-servo mount, unique angled steering system, 16mm big bore shocks, ball raced anti-roll bars FR and RR, aluminium shock towers, durable suspension and transmission parts and captured suspension pins. The package is completed with pre painted body shell and 2.4 GHz transmitter, waterproof electronic speed controller with small footprint, which fits the SRX8 GTE like a glove and a strong 1900KV brushless motor with lots of torque. Only parts required are the LiPo batteries, charger and transmitter batteries.

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March 31, 2022

Avid carbon camber gauges

The Avid carbon camber gauge is an easy way to check your vehicle’s camber. The fixed settings make it so that you don’t have to set your gauge for what you are looking for and the notched cutouts allow you to get the gauge dead centre of the tire for the most accurate reading. The 1/10th scale gauge features 0.5°, 1.0° and 1.5° settings, while the 1/8th scale version sports 1.0°, 2.0° and 3.0° settings.

View the 1/8th gauge here

March 31, 2022

Rêve D R-tune PC rear spring

Rêve D have introduced their new R-tune PC rear spring. This multi-winding type PC rear spring excels in relatively low-grip road surfaces such as P tiles and coloured concrete. Utilising the amazing ‘SWO’ material that has been proven in the previously released R-tune series giving a strong kicking feeling even at higher spring rates and controlled performance. They continue to use the popular 2-way structure that enables you to flip the top and bottom of the spring, allowing you to instantly adjust it according to the road surface conditions and driving skills. There are 3 types in the line-up (medium, medium hard & hard) and they are available separately or as a full set in its own dedicated box.

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March 31, 2022

Speedzone Evolution 2S LiHV shorty pack

Speedzone has released their latest Evolution 2S LiHV shorty pack. The 60000mAh 7.6V 130C shorty pack has 5mm bullet connectors, measures 96x47x25mm and weighs 215g. Many hours of testing went into the cell composition design, resulting in the pack’s ability to offer the same resistance and average voltage characteristics when running at either normal liPo peak voltage of 4.2v per cell or LiHV peak voltage of 4.35v per cell.

Source: Speedzone [speedzoneusa.com]

March 30, 2022

Tekno NB48 2.0 revised body shell

Tekno have released this revised body for the NB48 2.0. It maintains the original body’s distinctive design elements and style while slightly increasing the cab width. The modification adds extra internal room to optionally use the short air filter tube included with previous versions of the NB48 and NT48 vehicles.

Source: Tekno [teknorc.com]

March 30, 2022

Infinity IF14-2 FWD balancing bumper weight

For the Infinity IF14-2 FWD, Creation Model have introduced this balancing weight for the front bumper with a weight of 45grams. For use on asphalt surfaces in low grip conditions or when you want to increase weight over the front axle and increase driving stability. Can be added to the kit’s standard 85 grams for a total of 130 grams and the weight also includes special new foam bumper to fit this additional weight.

Source: Creation Model [creationmodel.net]

March 30, 2022

Kobbevik doubles Norwegian Indoor Offroad Nats

The Norwegian EP Offroad Nationals were held this past weekend at the KayArena carpet track in Siggerud. The 2wd portion was run with four qualifiers and Daniel Kobbevik TQ’d all four with his Sunpadow/Hobbywing powered Schumacher LD2. Helge Johannesen and Eirik Andressen complete the top three on the grid. Daniel won A1 easily with Eirik Andreassen with his Yokomo second and Alexander Gjemble with his Schumacher third. In A2 Daniel had huge lead, but 1:45 before the finish, the right front wheel came off, and at same time earlier in the final Alexander and Eirik had a hard wheel to wheel battle and they came into each other, meaning they both missed the loop, so they lost one lap. That left them fighting for second and third. And with Daniel out of race as well, it was a total shake up with the ranking after A2. It ended with Vincent Rüger in front of Peter Strein and Helge Johannesen and so A3 was going to be exciting. A3 started, and Daniel went away right away leaving behind the fight for second and third was strong. It ended it was Eirik in front of Alexander, but with his win in A2, Rüger took the final overall podium spot.

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