Closing the argument on b4.2...

-New box will have cav's car on it (not much different from the old box)
-Same chassis
-Big bores
-Hexes
-VTS Slipper
-Aluminium steering rack
-Possibley new shock towers

As for the t4.2 and the sc10.2 i believe they'll be getting the new Short Course Buggy front arms as well as the stuff listed above. There is a 90% chance that announcements for the new kit will be made around late Jan or early Feb after Reedy Race and I would assume the new kits will appear on shelves late Feb early March. Unless Associated decides to do something weird I'm pretty sure this is how things are going down.

You have about the same setup as me it seems like. I'm running green front springs white rear. Reedy Sonic 7.5 with 28 degrees of motor timing. Speed control is 2 feel and 5 boost with gearing at 81/22. I assume you're running at west coast that triple is one of the hardest i've seen indoors. I can make the triple every lap now doing mid to high 20 sec laps. The reedy mod motors have a lack of top end so definitely try adding some boost it'll help a lot.

I'm going to get hate mail on this, but.....

Although I admire his racing skills, I'm seriously sick of seeing Pudge's paint scheme splashed everywhere (he stole it from Kinwald anyway).

I hope Maifield wins this year so we get a different paint scheme on the box

I'm not sure if I could agree with you anymore that's 100% true lol. I hope hartson wins it.

Well when Mans wins something that matters like 2 world championships (how many of those does he have again?) maybe he can get some box art

Which is exactly what I said......

Do folks predominantly use the regular or carbon shock towers, arms, etc?

carbo top plate and ubrace for sure. never the rear tower unless you used a wolfpack

Why?

lol, was wondering the same on the carbon ubrace. Does it hold up better or something, especially when doing the Ubrace mod?

the carbo ubrace holds up much better. To my knowledge the rear carbo tower was never updated for lipos. So today's packs are a little taller and AE only updated the plastic tower. The wolf packs are lower and can use the carbon tower.

Edit nvm, question answered

ok, let me clarify. The carbon ubrace strips out fairly easily on the ball studs and the rear tower screws. and no I dont muscle them. that plastic is just soft.

Normal plastic creates a lot more flex than carbon. So any time you're using carbon you're going to take away flex (and possibley grip) from the car. Carbon parts on the b4 are used as stiffeners. To me it seems carbon helps a lot on high bite to smooth out the handling since more flex seems to make the car feel less consistent throughout the course of a corner. I always run a carbon u brace, top plate, and front arms. I'll go back and fourth between rear arms. There are three different stiffness rear arms (regular b4 plastic, b44 rear arm, carbon rear arm) and they are soft, medium, and hard respectively.

As far as shaving the u brace that has nothing to do with this topic. Shaving the u brace lowers your link and in turn raises your roll center. The reason people shave the u brace is because they want to raise the roll center more normally because they are switching to the c hub tower which is 2mm lower than the "a" hub.