Former off-road world champion and current drift car designer for Japanese brand RêveD Hayato Matsuzaki has signed up to use the full range of products by Arrowmax. On the deal Hayato said ‘Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be a part of Arrowmax team. I am looking forward to being able to use the full range of high quality tools. They look cool and are great for beginners to pro guys.’
Source: Arrowmax [arrowmax-rc.com]
Muchmore have released this pair of super capacitor modules for modified and stock racing. Low impedance, low heat generation, great start-up acceleration, the capacitor significantly reduces the interference generated by the high frequency switching of your ESC. Its small size and light weight makes it super easy to install.
Source: Muchmore [muchmoreracing.net]
Top Australian racer Kyle McBride, who only days ago announced on social media his departure from the Infinity Offroad team, has today announced that he has joined the Tekno RC team. Kyle, who will run the entire range of Tekno RC’s 1/8th to 1/10th buggies and trucks released the following statement announcing his new deal:
It is with pure pleasure and absolute excitement that today I officially announce my joining of Tekno RC & Coast2CoastRC Racing! Before I say anything else, I want to give special thank you’s to Daniel Lewis, Ilias Arkoudaris and Justin Moore for providing me with this awesome opportunity to join the Tekno family! I am over the moon to be apart of this team moving forward and I believe that we will do something truly special together for the rest of 2021 and beyond. I will be running all of Tekno’s range of vehicles from 1/8th to 1/10th buggies and trucks and promoting their wide variety of outstanding products and race cars. It will be truly amazing to see this company grow here in Australia and Asia as I represent this team to the absolute best of my abilities.
Source: Tekno RC [teknorc.com]
From Exotek is this conversion for their popular single wheel bars turning them into a 2 wheel bar while maintaining all of the adjustability of the original design. Includes the heavy duty carbon fibre ‘Y’ bar, 1 wheel and 1 wheel mount. Requires an Exotek single wheel wheelie bar to complete the conversion.
Xray have introduced two new options for matched front coil springs for the X12’21 with black and gold joining the kit standard silver. The new springs offer a softer and harder option to the silver and have been developed through extensive testing and racing experience. Stiffness is controlled by the thickness of the wire and also by the number of coils with the gold softer springs having a lower C value, while the black stiffer springs have a higher C value.
Source: Xray [teamxray.com]
From Sanwa, their new PGS-CLE servo is developed for use with low power supply BEC from the ESC. The BEC (Battery Eliminator Circuit) in some budget class ESC models sometimes cannot supply enough power for the servo. The PGS-CLE can work stably, even if it cannot receive enough power from the ESC. The servo is waterproof, SXR and SSL compatible, has metal gears, sports an aluminium heat sink as utilises a coreless motor.
Source: Schumacher [racing-cars.com]
From 7075.it comes these new front and rear upper arm mounting brackets for the Mugen MTC2. Made from hard anodised aluminium, there are 3 models available, 3 / -2, 2 / -1, 1 / 0, which will allow you to set any caster angle you want. Sold as a pair.
Source: 7075.it [7075.it]
Hudy have introduced additions to their line up of ultra light aluminium pinion gears. Joining the already extensive 64P range are 27T, 45T, 49T, 52T, 54T, 56T, 58T and 60T. The high-strength pinion gears are made from tough 7075 T6 aluminium and specially hard coated for superior strength, light weight and high durability. Extremely machined for the lowest possible rotating mass yet maintaining the necessary strength.
Source: Hudy [hudy.net]
