Preview – Team Associated RC8

May 022008

The Factory Team RC8 features:

- Weighing in at 7.4 lbs.* makes the RC8 one of the lightest buggies in the class (*weight may vary depending on muffler, motor and electronics)
- More suspension travel than any other buggy
- The 4.30:1 ratio gear boxes produce maximum punch allowing the RC8 to accelerate harder out of the corners and up the biggest jumps
- 4mm woven carbon fiber shock towers for maximum rigidity, strength and light weight
- Unique low-profile elliptical high-flow, two-stage air filter
- FFC Free Float Caliper brake-system eliminates the possibility of unwanted brake drag while on throttle
- Factory Team threaded, hard-coated shocks feature extra large bladders for full volume compensation and 4mm gold shock shafts for durability
- Two-piece split-center diff mount allows quick and easy access to the center diff
- Blue aluminum hexes and wheel nuts featuring nyloc providing the ultimate in security
- Wing angle and position is fully adjustable and secure
- Newly designed high-torque capacity three-shoe aluminum clutch
- Lightened 43-tooth diff rings make for the absolute minimum rotating-mass
- Captured outer CVD pins
- Metric hardware throughout
- Milled 3mm black hard-coated 7075 aluminum chassis
- Factory Team blue titanium turnbuckles

Factory Team RC8
Part number: 80900
Price: TBA
Available: May 2007

I got those pictures from Team Associated…. Man this buggy looks killer !!!!!
I’ll review this buggy as soon as I can put my hands on !