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July 16, 2013

Yeah Racing cooling fan & steel servo screws

Yeah Racing announce the release of the Tornado high speed cooling fan in chrome-pink colour and special servo steel screws with aluminium bushings. Starting with the fan, the unit is 2S LiPo compatible, it is of a high-flow design and incorporates dual ball bearings for vibration-free operation. Sporting dimensions of 30x30x10mm it is ideal to cool speed controllers and motors and the fan comes pre-wired with a red JST connector. Also new are 3x10mm steel servo screws with pink colour aluminium bushings. The screws offer high strength ideal for all 1/10th and 1/8th applications while the aluminium bushings replace the conventional rubber grommets for rock solid installations.

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July 16, 2013

Xray T4 closed layshaft bulkhead

Xray introduce this new design middle layshaft holder for the T4 touring car. Different from the original ‘open’ part the ‘closed’ designed of the bulkhead captures the layshaft bearings to allow the removal of the upper topdeck screws in order to further adjust chassis flex and therefore the characteristic of the car. The bulkhead is useable on the left and right hand side and is made from 7075-T6 aluminium and comes orange anodised to match with the remainder of the chassis.

Source: Xray [teamxray.com]

July 16, 2013

Tamiya FF-03 Evo FWD chassis – teaser

Coming soon from Tamiya, and currently only available as slightly blurry preview image, is the FF-03 Evo 1/10th electric front wheel drive chassis. The latest generation FWD offers a newly-designed 2.5mm carbon chassis with 2mm upper deck and 3mm rear damper stay. The front of the chassis sees the addition of laydown shock absorbers with the rear ones are mounted in a conventional way. Included in the kit will be also fully alloy TF shocks, a front gear differential, and dual joint universal drive shafts. The kit will kit Japanese stores at the end of August.

Source: Tamiya [tamiya.com]

July 15, 2013

CSO One 5.5mm wheel hex adapters

CSO introduce these aluminium wheel adapters for their One 1/10th electric touring car kit. The parts are CNC-machined from 6061-T6 aluminium and come dark anodised to match the remainder of the cars’s parts. They are of a 5.5mm off-set design and incorporate a grub screw hole to secure them to the wheel shaft for a tight fit even with the wheels removed.

Source: CSO [cso.com.hk]

July 15, 2013

VBC Racing Wildfire D06 – first images

Following a teaser last week VBC Racing now released first pre-production images of their forthcoming Wildfire D06 electric touring car. The kit heavily differs from the current Wildfire and will feature some important “2013” gizmos such as a new slimmer lower chassis plate, new low-profile shocks and shock towers, redesigned anti-roll bars and bulkheads along updated suspension components. According to VBC there are still some parts that need finishing touches such as the floating servo mount and some other areas. It is understood that the kit will be ready to hit the stores in August.

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July 15, 2013

Much More LiPo battery for the CTXW tyre warmer

Designed for the CTXW tyre warmer is this 3S 4600mAh LiPo battery pack from Much More Racing. The internal power source allows the use of the tyre warmer unit without mains power making it possible to heat the tyres while waiting in the pits or the starting grid. The softcase pack comes build from 40C cells and is pre-wired with a Tamiya-style plug.

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July 15, 2013

Tamiya aluminium servo horns

These Tamiya aluminium servo horns are ideal to replace the kit’s standard plastic items with better looking and more durable ones. Available as Sanwa/KO and Tamiya/Futaba compatible variant the parts are CNC-machined and come blue anodised to match with the remainder of the company’s options. The levers are of a clamp-type design for added security and offer a pre-treaded hole for the steering linkage ball stud.

Source: Tamiya [tamiya.de]

July 13, 2013

KM H-K1 Meen Version front anti-roll bar

KM Racing introduce this ball-raced front wire anti-roll bar for the H-K1 Meen Version 200mm nitro on-road car. Included in the set, that must be used with the MV aluminium front bulkhead, are a 2.3mm anti-roll bar wire, ball bearings, aluminium collars and pivot balls as well as all needed linkages and mounting hardware.

Source: KM [km-rc.com]