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"I
believe that the TC4 has all the right design features
and components to make this car win, hands down."--Gary
Katzer
Team
Associated’s revolutionary TC3 set the benchmark for
touring car performance and quickly became the choice of
winning racers all over the world. The TC3’s
race-proven shaft-drive design captured many national
and international championships in the past few years,
and has spawned numerous imitations. Now the Team is
proud to introduce the next generation RC10TC4 Touring
Car… the refinement of the proven TC3 racing platform,
optimized with more precise tuning features, better
balance, and greater durability. The TC4’s chassis has
been designed with the batteries moved closer to the
centerline of the car… a favorite TC3 modification of
many Factory Team drivers.
This “mass
centralization” allows quicker directional
transitions, and the narrower chassis provides more
side-to-side roll clearance. The inline motor mounting
system features an all-new machined aluminum motor mount
which not only provides greater motor stability, but
also functions as an integral heat sink to draw heat
away from today’s hotter modified motors. An optional
“Factory Team” TC4 chassis forced air duct system
provides even greater airflow to the motor.
Of
course, the TC4 is supported by a full line of “Factory
Team” performance parts, including blue titanium
turnbuckles, optional radial heatsinks, a forced
air-duct system, and the entire range of graphite
chassis components.
Factory Team TC4
Team
Associated’s new Factory Team TC4 already has a big win before
the kits had been boxed.
Team Associated’s
U.K. driving star Craig Drescher won the prestigious
invitational Touring Car class at the 2005 Reedy International
Race of Champions. Craig beat the world’s best drivers,
chassis, and motor builders in the industry to take the overall
win.
This was Associated's first race with the Factory Team TC4 and
the entire team was impressed with the level of performance and
adjustability provided by the new chassis design, and Craig
winning the event was truly, “icing on the cake”!
The FT TC4 marks a milestone in electric touring car development
by allowing maximum chassis stiffness adjustability without
replacing the main chassis. It features a double deck 2.5mm woven
carbon fiber chassis that incorporates an adjustable carbon
fiber spine plate. The chassis spine plate allows an
extremely wide range of chassis stiffness adjustment in small
increments. This allows the chassis to be dialed in for high
grip carpet racing or for low grip parking lot racing and
everything in between. In addition to the spine plate, there are
four blue aluminum chassis brace standoffs that allow even more
chassis stiffness adjustment.
Racers around the world will appreciate that they do not need to
disassemble their entire car or shell out more cash in order to
change the chassis stiffness of the Factory Team TC4. Just make
the adjustments to the chassis spine plate or standoffs and you’re
dialed.
If all these tuning options were not enough, we included two,
three-piece anti-roll bar kits for the front and rear of the FT
TC4.
Another major tuning option included in the FT TC4 is that you
can choose between two types of differentials, based on the
class of racing you participate in. The lightweight composite
diffs provide increased acceleration in 19 turn or stock class
racing. The lightened, steel differentials easily tolerate the
very high demands for strength which modified racing requires.
Woven
carbon fiber chassis and 2.5mm top desk
Carbon
fiber spine plate
Factory Team TC4
Parts
Factory Team hopups
included in the #30102 Factory Team Kit
Aluminum Parts
NEW
#31095 Blue aluminum standoffs.
NEW #31105 Blue aluminum
motor bulkhead.
NEW #31092 & #31093
Blue aluminum camber link spacer, camber
link (left side - right side).
#3973 Blue aluminum clamping
hex drives
Carbon Parts
NEW
#31098 Carbon antenna mount, input bearing cup, carbon servo
mounts, carbon center spine mounts, 2.5mm woven carbon fiber
spine.
Graphite Chassis Parts
Other Parts
NEW
#31110 Lightweight TC4 foam bumper.
NEW #1781 Aluminum shock
bushings.
#31034 Heavy duty CVD
dogbones.
#1409 Blue titanium turnbuckles, 1.00".
#1414 Blue titanium turnbuckles, 1.12".
#1401 Blue titanium turnbuckles, 1.30".
Choice of differential with plastic outdrives or lightened
steel outdrives.
Adjustments and Tools
#3987 Droop
gauge.
Anti-roll bars, front and rear.
Adjustable caster, camber, toe-in, anti-squat, kickup, and
droop.
Multiple tie-rod mounting positions.
Front Hub
Rear Hub
Steering Rack
TC4 Factory Team
Conversion Kit
This kit will convert a TC4 RTR
or TC4 Team kit to Factory Team specs.
TC4 Team Kit
"The
TC4 is the next generation, incorporating all that
Associated has learned during the four years since the
TC3 was first released. With its more centralized
mass, the TC4 makes lightning fast directional
changes, and thanks to myriad other changes, the car
is both more durable and more adjustable."
Up front, the TC4
features the double-decked impact-resistant plastic and
lightweight foam bumper system adopted from the Nitro
TC3. The shock towers have also been redesigned for
greater strength, and now have four upper shock mounting
hole options. The rear body mounts have also been
relocated outward on the shock tower to give wider
support to the body. The drive train of the TC4 has
received many refinements, including a new design 6061
T6 blue anodized aluminum drive shaft that fits in
stronger, beefed-up composite drive cups. The included
genuine Kimbrough 72-tooth spur gear mounts on a more
secure, 3-bolt hub with 6 mounting positions to fit most
any spur gear. The blue aluminum MIP CVD’s have also
been upgraded from the previous-generation TC3, and are
now thicker and 3 times stronger for maximum resistance
to bending. The molded composite wheel hex drives now
feature a “star drive” shape which allows more exact
manufacturing tolerances, and a more precise fit with
most standard touring car wheels. The TC4 comes standard
with blue anodized aluminum threaded shock bodies, a
feature previously included only on the Factory Team
level kits.
The TC4’s all-new suspension components spent many
months of development in Area 51, resulting in major
improvements in adjustability, precision, and strength.
The inner arm hinge pins are now larger-diameter, 40%
stronger, and are captured in the arm mounts by pivot
balls to provide consistently free, non-binding
movement. This floating hinge pin system allowed us to
develop an all-new anti-dive, anti-squat suspension
adjustment shim system front and rear. The wheelbase is
now adjustable .090” at the inboard suspension hinge
pins, providing, total of .180 adjustment. Both the
front and rear suspension links feature vertical
ballstud adjustment for making precise changes in your
chassis’ roll-center.
The steering system has
also been optimized, and now features a new dual-bellcrank/rack
configuration similar to the Nitro TC3. This
ball-bearing supported system is less susceptible to
capturing track debris that could bind up the rack’s
movement, and also features an integral spring-loaded
servo saver and Ackerman adjustments using the optional
ballstud spacers.
TC4 Team Kit Features
The TC4 features the
double-decked impact-resistant plastic and lightweight foam
bumper system adopted from the Nitro TC3. The shock towers have
also been redesigned for greater strength, and now have four
upper shock mounting hole options.
A 6061 T6 blue anodized aluminum
drive shaft fits in stronger, beefed-up composite drive cups.
The TC4's machined aluminum motor
mount not only provides greater motor stability, but also
functions as an integral heat sink to draw heat away from today’s
hotter modified motors.
A floating hinge pin system
allowed us to develop an all-new anti-dive, anti-squat
suspension adjustment shim system front and rear.
The steering system has been
optimized, and features a new dual-bellcrank/ rack configuration
similar to the Nitro TC3.
Both the front and rear
suspension links feature vertical ballstud adjustment for making
precise changes in your chassis’ roll-center.
TC4 Team Kit
Extra Items Needed
190mm Lexan touring
car body.
Paint formulated for Lexan bodies.
R/C two channel surface frequency radio system with one servo.
Battery
pack (6 cell).
Battery
charger (we recommend a peak detection charger).
Electronic
speed control.
R/C
electric motor.
Pinion gear, 48 pitch. Teeth to be determined by type and wind of
motor.
Tools:
Needlenose pliers, Phillips #2 screwdriver, soldering iron and
solder, thread-locking compound, tire adhesive, electrician’s
tape, body cutting scissors.
TC4 Team Kit Measurements
| Length
(without body or foam bumper) |
373mm |
| Front
Track (outside rims) |
190mm |
| Rear
Track (outside rims) |
190mm |
| Weight
(with electrics, without body) |
1375g |
| Wheelbase |
259mm |
TC4 Datasheet
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