Originally Posted by
Erhard
Hmm, many other classes have Al chassis plates and survive, At least you have the CF option at the E4 (Awesomatics doesn´t but they also run it on asphalt.)
Nobody local to me runs Al chassis plates in any class on asphalt if they can avoid it. The few guys I've seen running AMX pan cars have massive gouges on the chassis plate where it has made contact with the track. Luckily we have a local CF guru (Bezerk RC) who does custom orders. Lots of guys give him their Al parts to measure up and get CF equivalents.
Originally Posted by
Erhard
Flex affects handling - yes, but the E3 and E4 can be easily adjusted by the top deck mounting points that you use.
You can change flex with top deck adjustments, but you'll still end up with different flex characteristics using CF vs Al.