Originally Posted by
rdeppen
Please his sponsors?? WRONG
if Gord put Aluminum caps on it's because he and Ty found an issue during testing and wanted to eliminate even the slightest chance of a problem. DNF's dont cut it at this level (also why the AE factory drivers are all using Durango metal teeth gear diffs in the B44's). The worlds aint no club race with BIG CASH on the line in bonuses for a win, place or show. It's just that proline has the CNC equipment on site to make whatever parts the Tessmans can dream up in short order. Proline made the whole aluminum front end on his Nitro car that was at the last worlds.
There are two reasons for the shock caps. First and foremost is the caps make the shocks have more down travel. If you read why Ty ran the HB shocks on his RB6, Ty clearly likes his cars to have a lot of down travel.
Changing the mounting style was more of a secondary effect of the caps being made out of aluminum. I'm sure the stock caps are plenty durable. Remember Ty ran the stock caps at the nationals and didn't have a problem.
If anything, most people should leave the stock caps on to prevent from breaking other things. With SCT bringing a bunch of new people into the hobby, new people who have no idea how to drive due to SCT's being way too durable, the complaint of "These buggies are too fragile, how am I suppose to smash my way around the track with one of these? God forbid I learn to drive." Now these people have realized how terrible SCT's are, and they want to drive something that isn't a pile of suck. All these companies are coming out with new cars that claim to be "Tonka Tough" to help everyone that have no business running a 4wd.
In the one video Mr. DeGuzman claimed even the pro HB drivers were worried about breaking front gearboxes. There was a fix for that, but apparently even the factory guys couldn't figure it out. My non re-release XX4, and original D4 were built up to the point that I could drive them as hard as I wanted, and didn't have to worry about anything failing. They were just as durable as a 2wd buggy. Not crashing has a lot to do with it though.
Is there no slipper there? Guess it is not needed when you have a centerdiff taking care of Things.
A slipper is just to protect a ball diff. No ball diffs, no slipper.
Originally Posted by
bender
product page up too:
Yeah and nv529 beat you to it by about a half hour.