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May 26, 2015

Reflex Racing RSD split ride height gauge

Reflex Racing have introduced the new RSD ride height gauge for 1/10th and 1/12th on-road cars. Coming as pair and made from black anodised and laser-etched aluminium the gauges offer a measurement range of 2.5mm to 6mm in 0.5mm increments and the split design helps to finely and precisely adjust the ride height of “slider style” 1/12th rear ends as well as 1/10th touring cars as both sides of the chassis can be measured at the same time.

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May 26, 2015

Yeah Racing TRF419/418 teflon-sealed ball bearing set

New from Yeah Racing and made for the Tamiya TRF419 and TRF418 is a teflon-sealed ball bearing set. The teflon seals will offer better protection against dust and dirt compared to metal-shielded ones while still running with a very low amount of drag and the included high-quality bearing oil makes maintaining the ball races a breeze.

Source: Yeah Racing [yeahracing.com]

May 26, 2015

New Ielasi Tuned engine range

Italien frontrunner and former IFMAR World Champion Daniele Ielasi has introduced his new range of Ielasi Tuned engines in the form of the 9-port ITD.21 and the 3-port ITD.12. Both engines were built at Novarossi to his own specifications with the ITD.21 being an 1/8th scale engine based on the Novarossi Plus.21 crankcase and coming with the R7-16 conrod, a new design cooling head, and redesigned combustion camber insert. The Plus.12 based ITD.12 also comes with a new cooling head and redesigned combustion camber insert. More information and images can be found on the brand’s website here.

Source: Ielasi Tuned [ielasituned.com]

May 25, 2015

Ninja JX21-B03 nitro off-road engine

Coming soon from Mugen is a new line of Ninja JX nitro engines. First up is the JX21-B03 for 1/8th nitro buggies, truggies and the up and coming nitro GT on-road class. Offering a good amount of usable power and a high fuel economy the engine features a square bore and stroke configuration, DLC-coated and balanced tuned crankshaft, a ceramic rear ball bearing for increased throttle response and a higher top speed, a light weight low-profile cooling head with laser-etched Ninja graphics, and an easy-to-tune three needle carburettor with aluminium 6.5mm venturi. The engine will become available around June or July.

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May 25, 2015

Tesla .21 engine ceramic front bearing

New from Capricorn comes the Tesla 7x19x6mm ceramic bearing for .21 nitro engines. The front crankshaft bearing is made to C2 tolerances for the highest possible precision and it fits all Novarossi-based engines.

Source: Capricorn [capricornrc.com]

May 25, 2015

GForce Ridge shorty & low-profile shorty LiPo batteries

GForce have two new shorty LiPo batteries available in the form of a 4500mAh and a 3200mAh low-profile pack. The 4500mAh variant sports standard shorty dimensions of 92.5x46x24mm and it weighs in at 200g while the 3200mAh pack is only 18mm tall at a weight of 153g, mimicking 1/12th scale 1S dimensions. The packs are made using 50C cells and they utilise 4mm bullet-type connector tubes and a 2mm balancer connector port.

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May 23, 2015

Arrowmax 1/10th on-road aluminium wing mounts

Arrowmax have new aluminium wing mounts for 1/10th on-road vehicles available. Machined from aluminium and sporting the Arrowmax logo the plates offer a larger mounting surface than most of the standard wing mounting hardware supplied with the bodyshells. This makes for a more sturdy rear wing mounting as the plates are of a 2-screw design and yet small enough to not disturb the air flow. Coming including mounting hardware the mounts are available in purple, orange and gray colour.

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May 23, 2015

VBC GhostEvo camber link adjuster

New from VBC Racing and made for the GhostEvo touring car are aluminium camber link adjusters. The brackets are mounted to the upper bulkheads using flathead screws while the camber link length and thus the camber gain characteristics and roll centre are adjustable using different thickness shims to finely adjust the space between the bulkhead and the bracket. The adjusters are made from aluminium, they come red anodised, in sets of two and including mounting hardware.

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