Originally Posted by heretic

www.overrc.com

you'll see a blackart lipo chassis for the T3. It was made on demand and designed by french driver WPV though so I don't think you can buy one.

Originally Posted by academygaz

Without wanting to rain on anyone's parade....

1. Xray haven't had anything leak in the past before a new touirng car chassis announcement. They normally do all their testing behind closed doors at their private track(s), then drop the car into the RC world fully finished.

2. 2010 is a Worlds year, but in the past Xray have always announced new TCs at the end of the year

Originally Posted by academygaz

Without wanting to rain on anyone's parade....

1. Xray haven't had anything leak in the past before a new touirng car chassis announcement. They normally do all their testing behind closed doors at their private track(s), then drop the car into the RC world fully finished.

2. 2010 is a Worlds year, but in the past Xray have always announced new TCs at the end of the year.

3. The T3 kits come with updated 1pc hingepin blocks now.

It just seems mighty odd that someone from America starts a thread saying how the ''new'' Xray will look like this or that, but doesn't remember how or when Xray announce new cars, and how he's ''sure'' it'll have certain features, yet doesn't have any apparent connection to the Slovakian company. Sounds like a result of an imaginative mind to me.

Its pretty much a given thing that Xray will have new parts to run at the Worlds, after all, its the centre stage for TC racing. But until Xray have the info on their website, don't believe anything you read about them. We all remember the FK06 Shaft Drive that was a ''100% certain to come out and had already been tested''....

Originally Posted by RCknight

We'll see. lol

Originally Posted by Lockyie

you can buy it its a

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Originally Posted by heretic

haha, no need to translate dude, french is my mother tongue and I think apart from bodies, Black art don't sell most of their projects, or perhaps in a very limited number . For instance thier molded chassis for the carpet knife has not been released anywhere, I believe. I just gave the link because this may -or may not- give an idea of what the 2011 chassis from xray could look like.

Funny to see the SD xray photoshop again. I agree, very very little info leaks from xray, ususally, so ... wait and see.

Originally Posted by M-Technic

Some of the rumors before the T3 release came true. Take it all with a grain of salt.

Rumors probably start when people see team drivers with "different" parts on their cars. For instance, Lemieux had some parts on his T3 that weren't anodized gold at the Snowbirds this year, most likely beta or testing parts.

Originally Posted by RCknight

will have some design changes. They will get rid of the tie rods on the shock towers, they will remove the hinge pins off the bulkheads and remove the rear stand offs on the Euro version. That's great to hear. That should help even more with tweak issues. I missed how easy it was to make changes to my TC4. I always like faster and easier. lol Great to hear from my sorce Xray decided to listen. I guess it's due to the over whelming customer requests. These changes make sense to a touring car with many great design features already. With Xray quality it will be even better. I just hope the "R" version comes sooner than before since I hate the orange color. lol

Originally Posted by BigDogRacing

The stand-offs don't cause tweak issues. The worst cause of tweak issues on the current car is the motor mount bulkhead and the plastic hingepin mounts getting tweaked. I saw where one racer mentioned having to shim behind his pin mounts to get the rear toe equal. It's the pin mounts that cause this. It takes just a minor brush with the pipe or board to tweak them, but what sux is you can't tell by looking at it that it's tweaked. However, you can usually hold the car up vertical and see that one side arm is angled back just a hair. Once you get an eye for it, you can tell pretty quick if its tweaked.

The hingepins no longer mount on the bulkheads, and the problem with the camberlink mounts isnt that they're mounted to the shocktower, but that there aren't enough locations to fine tune them.

Originally Posted by RCknight

from what I understand, they are going to get rid of the plastic mounts and mount the tierod to the bulkhead braces. I've not heard anything about the motor mount. So I hope it's something they will address.

Originally Posted by academygaz

Where are you hearing all this? Or are you just making it all up in the hope that you're right?

Its very easy to make things up and post it on the internet as ''I've heard this and that''. One minute you sound like you're in the know about how its going to be, yet the next minute you don't sound like you know the fairly simple things (like how a motor mount would tweak a chassis).

Originally Posted by RCknight

does the motor mount tweak the chassis?