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BZM Micro was showing off their new 23cc engine for the Baja 5 line at RCX. This beast is an all new design, not just a bulked up Fuelie or Zenoah. While this guy may be smaller than a lot of other after-market engines, it’s numbers are anything but. According to BZM’s dyno testing, when this engine is paired to [...]
If you’ve ever snapped a shock tower on your Baja 5B/T/SC then you might want to take a look at these new, super beefy towers from Team Chase. In the picture to the right you can see a stock shock tower at the top and Team Chase’s redesigned and much stronger tower below. Beyond the redesign, Team Chase is molding [...]
Those fellas at Kershaw Designs are a bit sick in the head. In a totally good way of course. You’d have to be a little messed up to come up with the idea to take a Traxxas E-Revo and stretch it out to the same wheel base as a HPI Baja 5T. That’s exactly what this new chassis conversion kit [...]
RTR Sucks. I said it, and I don’t feel bad for saying it. So any time I hear of a kit version of any vehicle being released I jump for joy. HPI has long been cool about releasing their Baja 5 line as a kit version, so their new Baja 5SC SS comes as no surprise. Just like all the [...]
Click to embiggen. Next month, at the RC Expo, there will be a raffle to raise some money for the American Red Cross Services for Armed Forces. The grand prize? A completely custom HPI Baja 5T worth $10,000. HPI, TGN, the upstanding gents of the Baja Addicts forum, and innumerable other companies have donated all kinds of parts to build what [...]
HPI Racing has some new gear for the recently released Baja 5SC and the Baja 5T. The new TR-10 wheels are true bead locks that will hold your tires securely without glue. The wheels are available in four finishes: white, black, gunmetal gray, and chrome. The fronts measure in at 120x60mm and have a 4mm offset while the rears are [...]
New from RPM is this cool little HPI 5B Roof Guard. Once again the guys from RPM have come up with a cool idea to help protect that spark plug sitting out in the open of your HPI 5B. You know RPM is tough stuff, so if you are looking for some added protection, this roof [...]
Leave it to HPI to get my 5th scale juices flowing again! They just announced the new Baja 5SC. A 1/5th scale short course truck based on the Baja series of vehicles! It comes with a 2.4ghz radio and the 26cc Fuelie engine that will get your giant short course truck up to 40mph! Click through [...]
We all know that RPM stuff rocks, but they mostly make stuff for the 1/10th and 1/8th scale market. Well check this out! RPM now has a HPI Racing Baja 5B Bumper and Skid Plate set! This is what the doctor has ordered! Those big cars hit hard, and to see something available from RPM means [...]
Kershaw Designs loves them some brushless converted 5Bs and 5Ts and to prove it they’ve expanded their line of Mod 1.5 pinions that mesh with the stock spur gears on the Baja Fives. The full line now includes 12 – 20 tooth 8mm bore steel pinions and 14 – 20 tooth 10mm bore hardened steel pinions. Prices are $14 for [...]
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 be a [...]
If you’ve ever taken on the massive undertaking that is painting a 1/5 scale body then you know just how time (and paint) consuming it can be. Well Thunder Designs, by way of TGN Distributing, has made decorating your HPI Baja 5B body as easy as peel-n-stick with their Swoop Design and Militant body skins. Both designs are available [...]
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 those aftermarket exhaust pipes that [...]
So while bashing at our long jump event where we watched Tim Mohr set a Long Jump record we pulled out the HPI Baja 5B! A lot of people say you can’t bash with a 5B, that too much breaks, but I think this video may prove them all wrong! Nobody could believe the durability that this truck [...]
We all like tough stuff and RPM has been one of the great purveyors of such stuff for a long time. Now they have even more tough stuff for the Baja 5B and 5T drivers in the crowd. The new rear bumper is a direct drop-in replacement made out of the fancy RPM material that everybody knows and [...]
