Originally Posted by
Autocratic
That's not even Jorn's car. Wing, body paint, and rear tires are all wrong. No TD team driver would ever do something like that with the rear tower.
I ran the 210 for roughly a year, and never broke the stock rear tower. Never broke a stock front either.
Bob, no idea where you got that picture, but it's probably not a real Durango team driver.
I made a rear shelf plate out of a spare carbon battery strap. Had to oval the holes slightly, but it worked. Never actually got to test it though because my ESC was too tall and the body wouldn't fit.
ROFL, who said anything about it being Jorn's car. Jesus guys, read the post LOL. It's a local kid named Brandon who runs for Tekin and I took the picture. My car is in the background. We were making fun of his redneck patch job but guess what, it worked. Got him through the day (on 2 different occasions now). He's actually quite a good driver. That wing is a product of getting steam rolled by 4wd SCT's in practice all day LOL.
The rear shock tower broke while downsiding a jump perfectly. I was watching his car specifically because he was on a TQ run LOL. It happened the same way a few weeks before. The reason they did that to the tower was no one had rear shock towers in stock and they had no spare. Rather than not race, they made it work.....
Oh btw, he went on to TQ and win AFTER he broke that.
So the moral of the story is/was the car broke several times under normal circumstances and parts availability is an issue from time to time. He did go for 3 weeks without front caster blocks as well because they were out of stock everywhere.