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Old 03-26-2009, 06:48 PM
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Apart from not crashing... What do you do to protect your motors head from dramage?

I have seen zip ties used. But what is best?
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Old 03-26-2009, 06:52 PM
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Make a halo out of fuel tubing, use a small piece of plastic tubing or something to connect the two ends. Zip tie it to the head. In a hard hit, not much is gonna help, but this helps for minor contact.
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not wrecking seems to be the best way, if u have a bad hit u will bend a fin not matter if u have zip ties or fuel line in there
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zip ties with fuel tubing. i dont do it but others do.
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Dont even bother, everyone will just laugh at you.

No matter what you do, an engine head is going to get scuffed up. Live with it.
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dont bother hear one flip in front of the house just brakeing in the
motor on wing bam right on the head not new now
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Put it in a truggy instead of a buggy so the head can't hit the ground.
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what he said ^^^^
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Don't even bother for off road. If you are bashing on road it's nice to have the zip tie/fuel tubing trick in place because if you flip you will go skidding for awhile and really scuff it up bad.
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