Yes, they are metric. Someone commented earlier in the thread.

Confirmed metric from Jason Ruona.

I confirmed this five days ago mate. Cav posted it on his fb page.

I wasnt aware it was a competition? :p

It isn't, but if it was, I won :D

At least it has threaded shocks and aluminum servo mounts, agreed. However, compared to the FT the team kit lacks titanium turnbuckles, titanium nitride coated shock shafts, aluminum hubs, wheel hexes and steering bellcranks. On second thought that's not that bad, I'd replace most of the aluminum items with Yaiba/Avid/RDRP/whatever parts anyway. Although I'd recommend the Yokomo 2WD to erverybody, blinging up my SC10 was so much fun (if expensive), I am contemplating getting a B5M. Hopefully it will not have as much slop as the B4 family. :)

More pic from AE
http://www.teamassociated.com/cars_a...ctures_videos/

Someone on rctech has posted the manual to
http://www.rctech.net/forum/electric...thread-19.html

:thumbsup:

The direct links so you don't have to go through rctech:

https://skydrive.live.com/view.aspx?...DZGyUzQ1sdc414


https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Aa...b28/edit?pli=1

Thanks, also available on petitrc. :)

Slop in a b4 mine dont have hardly any

Just listened to a long interview with the designers and watched model car actions test drives.
Found it quite interesting,The US racers still really don't appear to want to like a mid motored car,they admit it's sharp handling,jumps well etc but still lean towards the rear car, I also felt this with the lead designer, I got the feeling he almost designed the mid car kicking and screaming,preferred the thought of redesigning the legendary rear motored B4 making it better/more refined.
Also find it quite interesting that it appears that no testing on any high grip astro tracks was carried out,from reports the reedy race was the 1st place a lot of team drivers including Neil Cragg actually got their hands on the car:confused:

Will be interesting when the car gets released as here in the uk I imagine it will be all about the mid ( a car that has done no UK testing), in the US I think more club drivers will head for trusted rear motor.Also interesting to see how it compares to the Centro as The top US boys seem to have fallen in love with theirs, shame the didn't sample the dark side earlier:lol:

Think this could actually be one of the most interesting cars released this year, and it's great it's from AE as the last few cars have made us …well yawn a bit :p

any news on dates??????

Lookin at MB models bit, they get their Rr motor today

Rear motors are in the country I believe and the mid motor is due the end of February.

The latest release on the B5M was late March from AE. Maybe they'll turn up early like the B5, but who knows. :)

Mid motor Feb 14th
http://www.modelsport.co.uk/associat...roducts/380832

guess i know what the mrs can get me for valentines day

How long after car arrives will you be able to to buy spares?????

That naturally depends on AE shipping spares with the kits...

has anyone bought the b5 ?

I've already seen spares listed on MBModels, but they're not in stock yet... Perhaps mail them, they might be able to shed light on it for you.

By the way, there's a B5 build on NeoBuggy:
http://www.neobuggy.net/2014/02/01/a...os/#more-38929

It looks very neat, I quite like it. Now for that B5M too! :)

Do the new chassis share any parts from the older b4's or is it all new?

This car is metric, so the majority is different, however there are some things I can think of that they might have kept the same. These are:
- Rims/Wheels.
- Diff Screw and Thrust Bearing.
- Diff Ball Size.
- VTS Slipper Clutch (excluding Top Shaft?)
- Big Bore Shocks (excluding Shock Eyelets and Bushings to mount it)?
- Big Bore Springs.

download the manuals and get checking :D

ill make sure to keep everyone up to date when I get mine :thumbsup:

Shocks have been revised.

Just in case anyone missed this, RC car action have had both the B5 and B5M on track, with a nice youtube video too;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdNwARhdKL4

i don't know if its been said yet but has anyone noticed the b5 uses straight wishbones but the b5m doesn't

Alex

That's a tuning option for both cars. According to the designer's interview traight arms are more forgiving, for more steering in large sweepers use the gullwings. However, you will need the matching shock towers, too.