Available now from Serpent is a white colour low-friction drivetrain belt for the X20 Medium mid-motor touring car. Using the belt front and rear will reduce natural drivetrain drag while maximising drivetrain efficiency for lower motor temps and increased acceleration when running in stock motor classes. The belt comes separately and is usable in the front and rear of the car.
Source: Serpent [serpent.com]
Coming from Tamiya and made for the M-08 M-Chassis kit is an aluminium frame post set. It includes machined aluminium posts that replace the standard B8 plastic parts for increased rigidity, a more streamlined appearance and a lower weight. The posts come blue anodised for surface protection and visual appearance and in sets of four.
Coming from R1 Wurks are their new V16 Drag Racing Tuned 4.5T 7500kv & 3.5T 9000kv motors. For the past few months, R1 Wurks been testing and gathering datalogs using their Digital 3 ESC, from some of the fastest RC drag racers around the U.S.. That amount of data allowed the company to understand the need for efficient power conversion, with the goal of generating the most power while controlling the amp draw to a minimum. With that goal in mind, R1 Wurkd created a line of custom built motors set for different budgets to make the most bang for the buck. Our base tune starts with the Drag Racing Tuned variant and upgrades go all the way up to the All Out Build. The full build comes with winding resistance measurements, rotor magnetic data sheet, sensor alignment, hand picked stator, full titanium screw kit pro installed and the gold standard in ceramic bearings, all pro installed. Other builds include hand-picked stators, aligned sensors and hand-picked stators, as well as aligned sensors, hand-picked stators and titanium screw kits. Full details can be found on R1 Wurks’ website here.
Source: R1 Wurks [r1wurks.com]
Coming from Smokem Racing and made for the ARC R12 touring car is a carbon fibre camber link shim set. Made from 100 percent carbon fibre, their design allows racers to adjust the inner camber link position on the ARC R12 with ease. No longer there is a need to completely remove the upper link brace, add or remove spacers but with the shims drivers simply loosen the screws, remove or add shims as needed, then retighten the screws. The set comes complete with four shims in 1.0mm thickness and four shims in 1.5mm thickness.
Japanese brand Team Bomber, known for their option parts for the Yokomo YRX12 1/12th scale pan car, are currently working on their own competition chassis kit. No official details are available yet beside a teaser image but we bring you more details as their surface.
Source: Team Bomber [teambomber.jp]
Tamiya have introduced first option parts for their all-new TC-01 on-road chassis in the form of an anti-roll bar set and aluminium rocker arms. Starting with the stabiliser kit, the set induces three different thickness anti-roll bars as well as blue anodised mounting hardware for factory looks. The stabiliser kit is usable for the front or the rear of the chassis and it allows to adjust overall chassis roll in corners and comes in handy especially when running in high-bite track conditions.
Coming from T-Works is their new multi-functional nut wrench. It incorporates nut drivers for 10mm and 8mm nuts as well as a 5mm hex wrench, making it ideal especially for 1/8th scale nitro vehicles. The tool is made of high-quality material and it sports a black surface coating and white laser-engraved size markings.
Source: T-Works [rc-tworks.com]
Coming soon from Ielasi Tuned is their new clutch gap gauge. The modified calliper allows easy and precise clutch gap measuring and adjustment, ensuring maximum reliability during the build or maintenance of on-road clutches. The calliper features a large LC display for convenient reading of the clutch gap value.
Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]
