NEO: Whoa. Déjà vu. TRINITY: What did you just say? NEO: Nothing. Just had a little déjà vu. TRINITY: What happened? What did you see? NEO: A F-150 Raptor SVT body went past us and then I saw another that looked just like it. TRINITY: How much like it? Was it the same F-150 Raptor [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hop-ups’
So who had four months in the “How long before Pro-Line releases a BullDog cab-forward style body for JQ’s THE Car” pool? Personally, I had three days, so I lost by quite a bit. I think Brian gets the prize money. Anyway, you can expect to find all the usual kind of stuff that normally [...]
Lookin’ for some new wheels for your Losi TEN-SCTE? DE Racing has you covered. Their new line of Trinidad wheels offer many of the same features you’ve come to know from DE Racing such as: - Bolt-on OEM fit – Realistic Scale Appearance – ROAR legal widths and diameters – Fits both front and rear of [...]
Plastic, nylon, delrin gears… who needs ‘em huh? They’re always a weak link in any drive train and one of the first recommended upgrades when you’re stepping up to the mega power of brushless or high torque crawler systems is to change those gears for some metal equivilents. But even in some situations those metal [...]
Those championship winning chaps at AKA just aren’t content to sit on their laurels and keep raking in the trophies. And you get to benefit from their endeavors. Their new R-Line series of unmounted and premounted tires feature their new, softer (and red) closed-cell foam inserts. AKA makes the claim that these new inserts are [...]
Speed Passion is ready to tell you all about their new line of brushless motors. The Ultra Sportsman V3 series will feature sensored operation, a locked end-bell, and zero timing, making these a good option for stock/spec racing. The motors will be available in a number of winds from 10.5 up to 25.5 for multiple [...]
To paraphrase Lee Iacocca Charles Wilson, as goes full scale, so goes our hobby. Axial has a new set of large tires for rock crawlers, and in the announcement for the new Ripsaws Axial says Within the 1:1 crawl & off-road race segments, overall tire diameters have been on the rise, literally and directly influencing [...]
From: Pro-Line Racing Direct Link: Pro-Line Street Fighter SC Tires Direct Link: Pro-Line Split Six SC Wheels Review by Cubby If you are truly a core BigSquid reader, then you don’t spend much time on a track, you spend most of your time bashing. In fact, that’s what the vast majority of rc’ers do, they [...]
Our editor/publisher/boss, Brian, is out of town for a while, so I have total control over the site (insert evil laugh here). With that, I’ve decided to let you all in on a little secret. The only reason we post news about ACER Racing introducing some new sizes of ball bearings is so we have [...]
Traxxas’ tiny truck is getting a big upgrade in the shock department thanks to the Exotek crew. Their new Big Bore Shocks for the 1/16 E-Revo (and pretty much all the other 1/16 scale Traxxas vehicles, with minor parts swaps) are beautifully machined hunks of alloy with threaded shock bodies and a gun metal finish [...]
How often have you been sitting around saying to yourself “boy, if only my sedan had a Boss 302 body, my life would be complete…” I’m guessing not often, most of you probably rank other things as more important to having a fulfilled life. Not me though, I’m a straight up, unrepentant consumer. If it’s [...]
If you’re looking for more ways to add a touch of realism to your scale crawler RC4WD has a couple new officially licensed products from Ballistic Fabrication for you. If you’re not happy with those big, bulky plastic kit axles you’ve been using then you might want to have a gander at the Ballistic Fabrication [...]
Speed Passion and East Coast Bodies Tune (wait… wha? who?) have decided to get together. And the body pictured above is the result of their coupling. That crazy awesome space alien looking thing is a 190mm sedan body modeled after full-scale automaker Mazda’s Furai concept supercar. The big Furai made it’s debut a few years [...]