Wandy

ok - well upon looking again i'm wrong.  it doesn't attach to the press part, it's a whole new upper arm design.  which seems to jut straight out from the upper surface of the arm... ehhh.  sound like a part that will bread a lot.  i might just get a razor saw and cut it off.

Pretty sure it's just a bog-standard 5mm adjuster that has been screwed into the top arm with a screw on the underside. Don't think the arm has been modded, that would have added unnecessary production costs.

I can't quite believe this, but exactly 72 hours after ordering mine it has arrived already from Japan. That is officially a new record for me, I wasn't expecting it till this time next week at the earliest.

It may look something of a lash up but I think the new stabilizer will be more effective than the old one. The torsion effect looks like it will be more effective as it will occur across the whole mass of the suspension arms, rather than just at the front of them with the old set up.

The only way we will find out though is to get someone to thrash the living daylights out of both of them on a track and see how they compare.

 

In my opinion Tamiya just want to differentiate between the original and new versions.

So why didn't they do it with every other re-release?

I think it's stunning, and it looks like the new sway bar will work better than the original one. Have they made some kind of mod to the upper arms to accomodate it though?