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The Duratrax 835B and it’s electric brother the 835E have started taking off with the bash crowd. After all they are affordable and can take some abuse. Duratrax has come up with 12 hop-ups made from heat treated 7075 T-6 aluminum which have been beefed up in key areas to make your 835B or 835E even tougher. They also focused on [...]
The latest products from the guys over at TheToyz and Driven Productions are new shock towers for the Losi Mini 8ight buggy. The new towers are not only better than stock but their biggest advantage is they allow the use of different body mounting posts, thus making it easy to mount up all sorts of cool bodies to your buggy. The [...]
The crew over at Team Durango have announced new molded shock towers for the DESC410 line-up of short course trucks. These new tower have a few benefits over the stock aluminum units- * 35% weight savings over aluminum * New shock mounting positions * New camber mounting positions * Front tower optimized for 29mm travel shocks * Part #330407 The molded towers come as a [...]
When you get a high end car like a new Durango I don’t think you can resist throwing on some trick looking hop-up parts. Exotek Racing has recently announced some trick looking Carbon Fiber Front Shock Towers for the Durango DEX210 buggy and the DESC210 short course truck. Some of the features include- * Made from heavy duty 4mm carbon fiber * [...]
The Team Durango DEX210 has gotten tremendous worldwide support from the aftermarket companies. A good example of this is Tresrey, the Team Durango distributor in Japan. Tresrey has just announced an uber new 7075 aluminum chassis and 4mm shock towers for the DEX210. Their chassis is 18 grams lighter than the stock unit and is 1mm thicker for durability and [...]
The Duratrax DXR8-E is starting to really take off, and with that the aftermarket manufactures are catching on and making hop-ups for it. Xtreme Racing has introduced some new very trick looking 4 mm carbon fiber front and rear shock towers for the new Duratrax electric buggy. These new Xtreme Racing towers are lighter than stock, bolt up with no [...]
The crew over at Exotek have announced some uber new hop-up parts for the 210 series of vehicles (like the DEX210, DEST210, and DESC210) from Team Durango. Pictured above are the Exotek 7075 alloy rear hubs priced at $29. Pictured below is the front brass weight insert ($10), a lightweight alloy idler shaft ($3), carbon fiber battery strap ($16), and [...]
Dynamite has a load of new stuff for the Traxxas Slash. The biggest new item being a LCG conversion set. But you’ll also see aluminum arms, shock towers, sway bar sets, and more. Everything is available now or will be very soon. Keep an eye on the Dynamite website for more info. #gallery-9 { margin: auto; } #gallery-9 .gallery-item { float: [...]
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 [...]
Have you been snapping the front shock tower on your SC10 or T4 with shocking regularity? Then you might want to invest in RPM‘s latest product, a drop-in replacement front shock tower that will also fit the RC10GT2. Being made out of the Basher Approved RPM material makes this new part tough enough to survive crashes that would break the [...]
The first and, thus-far, only recipient of the Basher Approved Lifetime Achievement Award, RPM, has some new products for lovers of the Traxxas Slash 4×4. These shock towers for the front and rear are drop-in replacements for the stock parts but are much, much stronger thanks to that lovely RPM material that we all adore. These pieces will retail [...]
