New Associated prototype

[skeeter]

Team Associated has endured a rough ‘ol ride this year in 1/8 arena, an aborted 1/8 buggy platform and designer Josh Alton departing, not to mention the headline-grabbing departure of Ryan Maifield to arch-rivals TLR. Finally a chance for some good PR ahead of the World Championships which kicks off in less than a month when all eyes will be on Ryan Cavalieri, Yannick Aigoin & Neil Cragg.



Over the weekend at Chula Vista raceway near the Mexican border the Associated team made up of Kody Numedahl (now in charge of the project), Richard Saxton, Brent Thielke and Ryan Cavalieri conducted a public test and low key race appearance. Cavalieri would end up finishing 2nd to Drew Moller (the kid continues to impress…), after a very late engine problem with only 40secs to go on the clock.



The biggest change from the previous RC8 prototype we’ve seen is the choice to go down the pivot ball front end route made famous by Mugen Seiki, with only 1 car present, and no chance to go ‘under the hood’ we could only shoot from afar. The chassis looks wider than the previous prototype but narrower than the previous RC8 platform, with a ‘Mugen style’ rear end in our opinion.


   

[kyoshoracer]

Looks alot like a mugen. I wonder if this is the direction they are going to go with or are they just playing around with different types of suspension geometries.

[mrrc10]

It is a Mugeciatedsho.

[mp9ebest]

Sept 3, 2014 19:14:30 GMT mrrc10 said:

It is a Mugeciatedsho.

LOL..

[nitrodude]

I want to see some off body pics, I wondered if they chose the same lay out as the RC8.2 or maybe an updated layout?

[skeeter]

Sept 3, 2014 6:18:00 GMT kyoshoracer said:

Looks alot like a mugen. I wonder if this is the direction they are going to go with or are they just playing around with different types of suspension geometries.

Those definitely look like Mugen shocks.

[nitrodude]

I wonder how it will do at the worlds, it definitely looked good at the Sidewinder race.

[RC Mamba]

It looks to be a good design, but isnt a pivot suspension somewhat of a bad idea since it can pop out.