Losi Tuned Flex 8ight Chassis

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Admin

Losi have announced the release of this Tuned Flex Technology Chassis for their popular 8ight Buggy. Milled at exact points to give more flex to the chassis while not sacrificing chassis flex at the gear mesh, the tuned flex technology offers greatly improved overall traction and stability on all track surfaces and has been vigorously tested worldwide by Losi drivers Adam …

S400 aluminium C-hubs

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Admin

Serpent is pleased to introduce a new range of aluminium C-hubs in a variety of different caster angles.

These new hubs are extremely stiff and this helps reduce any flex in the steering, something very useful when running on carpet and other high grip surfaces. Another benefit of these new items is that due to the material used it has allowed them to be narrower than …

And so I move on again!

Posted on January 21, 2008 by scoyle

As you all know I have been building a few cars this year and I have decided that it is time to settle on one car for the rest of the indoor and outdoor season – that car is the Serpent S400.

I have just finished building and test running the car and have to say that it goes together very well. Jonathan Patterson beat me …

Build Review: Serpent S400

Posted on January 21, 2008 by scoyle

2007 saw Serpent enter the 1/10th electric touring car market with the S400. With a strong reputation for building top quality, race winning nitro’s I was interested to see how their take on an electric touring car would go. The most recent car I have built is the RC10 TC5 Factory Team so I will be mainly making my comparisons with it throughout this review.

X1CR Pro FT BB 2008

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Admin

SMD have released details of the new X1CR Pro FT BB for 2008. In addition to the standard F.T. SE spec the X1CR FT BB now includes ;-
#387 16mm Big Bore shocks and springs (biggest in class!) for simply awesome bumpy track stability. Retail price £309.99

Read on for more pictures…

New team mate for Mark Gilliland at XRay

Posted on January 16, 2008 by Admin

As a team driver for XRay Mark Gilliland now has a new team mate in the form of Brian Kinwald!