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EXOTek has a way for you to toughen up your Blitz and Blitz ESE while also adding a bit of color to it’s monochrome looks.  Their new Blitz Rear Brace is machined out of heavy duty alloy for extra toughness and then annodized blazing orange.  EXOTek says the brace strengthens a “known weak point” in [...]

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Team Associated has a whole load of new Factory Team upgrades for their popular RC8B 1/8 scale buggy.  The A Team says that all of these parts are based on ideas and designs used in various big-time races like Motorama and the IFMAR Worlds in Thailand.  Some of the parts include a new, thicker chassis, [...]

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Schumacher has decided that their super sedan, the Mi4CX, just wasn’t tunable enough.  To rectify that situation, they’ve created a couple new chassis to offer up that missing bit of tunability.  The new soft weave carbon fiber chassis has been under development for several months and has been tested in many big races to make [...]

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RCP Crawlers was putting on a big show at the RC Expo 2011, with a booth full of awesome scalers and a large crawling course with demos going all day long.  The big news out of their booth though, was their new Progress chassis for Axial’s XR10 super crawler.  While it’s still an early prototype [...]

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For you Cougar SV owners in the audience Schumacher has a couple new pieces to make your buggy a bit more competitive.  Their new Chassis +8mm is exactly what it sounds like: a chassis with 8mm of length added to it.  The additional length changes the weight balance of the Cougar, shifting more weight to [...]

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DarkSoul still has the Christmas spirit.  Until January 1st, the Chino competition crawler chassis kit for the Losi Mini Rock Crawler is available directly for only $50.  This kit includes an all new chassis with plenty of tuning options that is formed out of one piece of aluminum.  You’ll also get a new set of [...]

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Here’s some video of RC4WD‘s recently announced solid axle conversion chassis, the Hardcore, in action. The Hardcore chassis conversion takes the Traxxas Slash to the next level of realism, with a full on 4-link rear suspension holding on a solid rear axle, just like the full scale short course trucks run. Check the video and [...]

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Here’s something else that you can only see at our booth.  The new Scooby Horton II chassis from Brown Engineering is for the super cool Robitronic Scalpel 1/18 scale pan car.  The chassis is made for 4 cell NiMH packs but can also fit a Thunderpower 1350 1S LiPo.  The chassis features flex plates and [...]

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Dan Fischer from Kershaw Designs dropped by the RC Driver Live show today to show off a bunch of new products and custom rigs. The biggest news from the show is Kershaw’s new Baja 5B/5T dedicated brushless chassis. The new chassis is going to be distributed through TGN Distributing. According to Dan it’s going to [...]

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RPM has taken a keen interest in your rear end it seems.  That is, if you drive a Baja 5B or 5T.  The latest new product fresh out of their molds is a rear skid plate for said Baja 5Ts and 5bs.  This new bolt-on skid plate is intended to provide additional protection for all [...]

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Exotek has had enough and they aren’t going to take it any more.  Enough inconsistent chassis flex that is.  So they developed this new carbon fiber chassis for the Tamiya TA-05 V2.  It’s purpose built for lipo batteries, so one of the major reasons for inconsistent flex, the battery slots that are usually cut into [...]

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You know you’ve made it when you get a load of aluminum and carbon fiber hop-ups made for you.  The Jammin SCRT10 has made it.  Those masters of CNC machining, ST Racing Concepts, have a whole lot of new metal for the SCRT10.  So much in fact that I’m just gonna bust out the generic [...]

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Have you ever thought that your Savage Flux just isn’t big enough?  Maybe you were jealous of all those Savage XLs out there.  You know the ones… they flaunt their longer wheelbase like it’s going out of style and aren’t ashamed of it.  Well now you can dress up your Flux like an XL and [...]

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