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RB Automatic Damping System

Matt — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:37:20 +0000

Developed in close collaboration with Italian company Fioroni for two years, RB are proud to release a new innovated shock system that makes your shock absorber ultra progressive with automatic harder damping. ADS uses a special V design sleeve combined with a CNC piston without holes that allows the oil goes up and down with an ultra progressive oil flow. This is how it works:

Compression – the piston is at the bottom position. At the beginning, the V shape is big and the damping is soft. When the piston goes up into the shock body, the V shape becomes smaller and the damping becomes harder. The damping is ideal during the piston travel.

Extension – the piston is at the upper position (small V size area) and the damping is hard. When the piston goes down, the V shape becomes larger and the oil flow is increased which lets the piston return quicker to its bottom position.

The actual big bore shock absorbers are better for damping, but become less reactive because of the diameter of the pistons and large amount of oil flow. With ADS, the sleeve reduces the inside diameter and it makes the piston travel becomes more reactive too.

02013-004 Automatic Damping System – Mugen MBX-7
02013-005 Automatic Damping System – RB One R
02013-006 Automatic Damping System – Kyosho MP9
02013-007 Automatic Damping System – TLR 8ight 3.0
02013-008 Automatic Damping System – Xray XB9 Spec 13
02013-009 Automatic Damping System – Xray XB4
02013-011 Automatic Damping System – SWorkz
02013-012 Automatic Damping System – Agama
02013-013 Automatic Damping System – Serpent

Source: RB Products

JConcepts Pre-Mounted Black Jackets and Stackers

Matt — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:27:10 +0000

JConcepts have released two new popular 1:8 truck tyres in pre-mounted configuration. First up the the Black Jackets that made their successful debut at the Dirt Nitro Challenge and Neobuggy events during the 2012 racing season. The Black Jackets feature very small square pins, provide additional grip on loose conditions with a light amount of dust and debris across the surface. The tread spacing near the outside rows are slightly open allowing maximum flexibility to adhere to smooth and slick surfaces providing a reasonable flex contact patch. The crisp centre bar construction provides a wall-like pattern of tread which provides additional forward bite and also resists some high-expansion wear associated with typical small pin tires.
The second tyre is the Stackers, a culmination of successful DNA from the highly popular Hybrids and Crowbars tread patterns. The Stackers reveal a heavy centre lug design which are supported at the lower base with extra rib features and tiny fillets which provide a heavy forward gripping force. Directional slashes cut into the tread soften the lugs to absorb bumps and also increase the lug flexibility to accommodate loose conditions.
The outer rows are a medium to hefty size lug with alternating positioning to drive forward and side-bite while the Stacked rows actively react with one another to lower the overall wear of the tyre. The side-lugs are finished off with a hard angle to ease the transition from forward to side-bite while maintaining a linear feel without edginess in the turns. The Stacker inner ribbing features a repeated X-type ribbing which reduces the amount of tyre expansion under power while still being soft and cushy for bumps and rutted sections.
Both the Black Jackets and Stackers include JConcepts Force-1 inserts and come either pre-mounted on a white or yellow Elevated wheel.

#3068-12 Black Jackets (green compound) on Elevated white wheel (pre-mounted)
#3068-22 Black Jackets (green compound) on Elevated yellow wheel (pre-mounted)
#3069-12 Stackers (green compound) on Elevated white wheel (pre-mounted)
#3069-22 Stackers (green compound) on Elevated yellow wheel (pre-mounted)

Source: JConcepts

Team Orion Dominates Annual TGH Spring Shootout

Matt — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:19:12 +0000

The first annual Top Gear Hobbies Spring Shootout was held this past weekend in Clackamas, OR. This is the home track of Team Orion USA Team Manager Joe Pillars. Making the trip out for this event was Team Orion’s current 2WD and 4WD IFMAR World Champion Ryan Cavalieri. The North West’s fastest racers would all be in attendance to test their skills against the four-time World Champ.
The Invitational Class would consist of 30 racers that were divided up into four heats of eight in random order. All drivers would use 2WD Modified Buggies for all eight rounds. Four rounds of heads up racing were ran on Saturday and another four rounds on Sunday. Each driver was given two throw-outs, using their best six finishes. Tie-breakers were determined by the number of first place finishes, second place finishes, and on using the six counted points. If still a tie, each drivers two fastest runs would be combined by laps and times to decide the higher finisher.
For all other classes, three rounds of qualifying were ran on Saturday and one last chance qualifier on Sunday. The rocket round format was used to determine the overall qualifying order by taking each drivers single fastest run. Then triple leg A finals were ran to determine the champion in each class.

Invitational 2WD Buggy
Team Orion/AE factory driver Ryan Cavalieri took the overall Win by finishing first in all eight heats earning him a perfect score of six points. Finishing second overall was Team Orion USA Team Manager Joe Pillars with four wins and two seconds with a score of eight. Third overall went to Washington’s Mike Brown. Mike ran fast and consistent all weekend and earned the third spot on the podium.

Invitational 4WD Buggy
Team Orion/AE’s Ryan Cavalieri went on to TQ all four rounds of qualifying to take the overall TQ for the class. Cavalieri then went on to win legs one and two in convincing fashion to take the overall win.

4WD Modified SC
Team Orion/X Factory’s Chris Gould went onto qualify second overall only one second behind the TQ. Gould made it happen by winning legs one and three to take the overall win.

Source: Team Orion