DEX410v4 is all most here
 

Yes sir it's a live :thumbsup:
http://www.team-durango.com/race-cars/dex410v4/

looks essentially the same car

nothing really new

the slipper is the newest feature but a V3 owner could fit it easily

I also find it annoying that they are advertising that you can color co-ordinate your car with alloy anodised hop ups, I'd still rather go with exotek or tresrey as they are miles cheaper than the Durango equivalent.

over all, a very under whelming kit for a car thats so was so highly anticipated

may sound silly, but does anyone know the artist or song used in the video???

Were you really expecting much more? :eh?: Consider the following:

- Durango have been testing a lot, but even things that help performance and would be in demand (such as an alu +8mm chassis for the DEX210) have not been released yet.
- Previously released Durango evolutions have been updated cars, not totally overhauled cars.
- A lot of developments that recently became public (such as the 410 side-by-side saddle layout) are too recent to be implemented in a production car.
- With the competition recently (both in 2WD and 4WD), they can't afford to wait for 6 months with a new release if they want to retain their market share.
- Durango may well be able to earn more money by chopping developments into smaller evolutions.

That said, I do agree their anouncement and then the wait to an actual kit page makes big expectations. Also, it seems they're putting updates on the car that are not worth advertizing with... new ball studs and ball cups won't make someone switch to a V4 from another brand, it'll only keep Durango drivers at Durango.

Bigger body clips and purple shock o-rings seem to be the most important changes here.

and a harder diff house? I never had any problems with a diff house and had a shed load lying around.

How do I go about getting those big body clips?? Could really do with them.

They've got UJs all round listed on the parts page, but only props shown on the v4 kit. TBH. It's only the slipper and the UJs I'm interested in.
I've already got all the rest of the hop ups.

I know amazing. I think I must have to get the kit just to get them. :thumbsup:

It shows CVDs for the suspension on the pictures, and interestingly enough it shows that too for the spare/standard parts' list... So I'm not so sure it actually had UJs all around.

Check out the durando team driver at 1.56- 2.00 minutes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWPzg...MLOxn&index=29

Actually one of the most interesting things I noticed on that car they used at the worlds was that it looked like it had different rear bulkheads and no, or less kick up on the rear chassis - allowing lower hinge pins and diff outdrives.

Just to clear out things regarding the driveshafts:

The V4 has front and rear centre UJs, but the driveshafts for each wheel are still CVDs. They are not the same as the V3 however, as they have been modified to reduce chatter.

UJs for each wheel will be available as an option only.

The car from the WC is not the V4, it was made for this event only, so really if you want to talk about that car, it has been discussed at length on the WC thread in the TD section, I feel this would be the best place to talk about it.

Fabs

Good to know...the axles do appear to have the same model number and listed as a standard part for the 410 V3 on TD's website though? :eh?:

Tower Hobbies has #TD310438 and #TD310439 listed as the front and rear driveshafts for the v4

Those part numbers are correct for the NEW CVD driveshaft. These items are a big improvement over the previous version.

The part numbers for the option front and rear UJ's are:

TD310422
TD310423

Hello Mr. Skelding,

Can you tell us please the differents from the new CVD's, to the previous one?

Thanks in advance and

The angle between the pin at the input end and the pin @ the axle end is now 90 degrees.

Before they were parallel.

So the rest of the 'old' 2.0mm pin CVDs is re-usable/interchangeable (Axle, Cross-joint)? :)

That was my thought too.
One less thing to buy until of course Durango do another 'Buy 2 for the price of one' deal :)