Continuing on the tools vibe we see that Speed Way Pal, out of Japan, have released these nice ride height gauges. Available in 4 anodised colours, red, black, grey and blue, they feature measurements in both full and half mm increments and the measuring surface is completely smooth for a more accurate, and easier obtainable, reading.
Source: Speed Way Pal [ocn.ne.jp/~sw-pal]
Everyone seems to have their own tools these days and OCM Racing are another company to jump on that product line with the release of some images and details about their new Hudy ‘inspired’ tools. Spotted by our mates Joneh RC, the new tools set comes in all the usual sizes and also sports a flywheel gripper tool as well as some nut spinners, allen heads, philips heads, flat heads and allen ball heads all with metal knurled handles.
Source: Joneh RC [jonehrc.com]
Schumacher USA have announced that Randy Caster has joined their team to race the new Mi3 electric touring car. Schumacher believe that Randy will bring a wealth of setup knowledge to the team as well as provide great product support and his first race with Team Schumacher will be next month at the 2007 Reedy Race of Champions where he was an A-main finalist in the Modified class in 2006.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
Serpent have just announced the release of their new 9 port, top of the line, 3.5cc engine for 1/8th scale on road called the Mega MF21 Nine MasMo Ceramic. This engine is a top of the line hand tuned engine and sports ceramic bearings, 9 port hand tuned liner as well as a hand tuned lightened crankshaft. While the inside of this Novarossi based engine is completely different, the only external difference on the engine is the new cooling head that sports a new fin design.
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If you race the Kyosho Mini-Z, or even own one, then this is the one thing you have to have. This awesome Multi Tool kit from Atomic RC is basically all the tips you need to work on your min-z in one tool. On one side of the carbon effect handle, which features anodised ends in Titanium, orange, silver and blue, you have a 4.5mm socket driver that enables you to remove the wheels from your car, while the other end accommodates and double ended tip that has a small 3.5mm philips head screw driver on one side and a 1.5mm allen head on the other end.
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Last weekend, the second round of the 2007 Portuguese 1/8th scale off road National Championships took place on the Ortigosa track in Leiria. After qualifying it was Crono racer Nuno Casal Ribeiro that took the pole position spot for the main final, but just after the start he got hit by another car, damaging his exhaust badly and loosing him 2 laps in the pits getting it fixed. Getting back onto the track he drove a great recovery drive to bring himself back up to 3rd by the end of the race just behind 2nd place Kyosho driver Miguel Matias with Mugen racer Fernando Almeida taking the overall win.
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Xray have a report on their site about the 2007 Ottawa TC Championships run by the RC Ottawa club at their great indoor facility. Joe Glover managed to TQ both the 19T and modified classes and went into the finals confident of winning both classes, but a collision in the 19T final meant he went a lap down, but was able to fight his way back to 4th at the end with Louis Vanderway taking the win ahead of Leonard Shinzano and Gordie Tam. In the modified class it was much easier for Glover and he won easily, leading home an Xray 1-2-3 finish with Leonard Shinzano and Gordie Tam finishing in 2nd and 3rd respectively.
Read the full report here.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
Corally USA have released more details on the 2 different specs, European and US, that the RDX Phi will be made available in. The European version has been designed for 5 cells and comes with a front one-way, rear differential and 3 degree caster blocks, while the US version will be a 6-cell chassis and comes with front differential, rear differential, 6 degree caster blocks as well as harder silver springs. Whats interesting is that Corally haven’t followed other manufacturers in making a thicker chassis for their US spec kits, perhaps its already stiff enough?
Source: Corally USA [corallyusa.com]
