Redcat Racing New portal axles

When searching social media, it quickly becomes apparent that the all new Redcat Racing Gen8 is making a huge impact on the scale RC community. One of the features that make the Gen8 so desirable, is its portal axles. They not only give the truck a more aggressive stance, but more importantly, they provide more ground clearance, allowing the truck to clear larger obstacles.   

Searching through comments we’ve found many scale RC enthusiasts, who  already own a capable Gen7 truck or other scale crawlers, but also want the  added advantage of portal axles. This is why we are now offering the Redcat  Racing Portal Axle Kit.     

The new Portal Axle Kit includes everything needed for a direct Gen7 Sport  or Gen7 Pro installation. Included in the kit are completely assembled  front and rear portal axles with steel gears, CNC machined aluminum spools,  and rubber sealed ball bearings. Also included are shock mounting adapters,  as well as a servo mounting plate that integrates a panhard bar mount to  keep the axle centered and add realism.     

The Redcat Portal Axle Kit also includes a slipper clutch upgrade, with a  50T spur gear, intended for the Everest Gen7. The additional gear reduction  present in the portal axles drops the Gen7’s top speed by approximately  50%. The included spur gear counteracts this gear reduction, raising the  Gen7’s top speed back to where you expect it to be.   

The slipper clutch features a lockout system, for those who don’t want the  added protection and tunability of a slipper clutch, but still want the  corrective gearing change.       

When designing these axles, the Redcat Racing engineering team listened to  what the RC community feels is most important in high quality portal axles. This is why they’ve included features like 5 degrees of caster, proper  Ackerman angle, light weight high quality plastic construction, Mod1 steel  gears, CNC machined aluminum spools, rubber sealed bearings, metal hex  hubs, and metal gear covers. Packing as many high end features and quality  materials into an affordable product was the goal, and we’re mighty proud  of what they accomplished.   

These axles were designed and developed in house, right here in the USA,  and with the help of the RC community, have gone through a strenuous and  public BETA testing protocol, with real users, prior to their release. The  results have shown them to be durable, impressively high in performance,  and are sure to make an impact on the custom build community.