Originally Posted by
agarabaghi
do you guys suggest running the alum chasis braces? I had some on my sc8e, but the screws broke off from the chasis area, and i replaced them with the plastic ones as i wanted to keep running. Ive not replaced the chassis brace since installing the plastics ones, not sure if i want to spend the $40 or so on getting them for the rc8... but the blue is nice
I do not suggest running the braces. Your car needs to flex for off road to maintain traction and the stiffer braces do not allow this to happen. Most of the losi's that we run the chassis has quite a bit of flex and adding the stiffer aluminum only makes it handle worse.
I run touring cars also and depending on traction you can setup the chassis with more or less flex also. Rubber tire cars which normally have less traction have their chassis with more flex whereas foam tire cars use a stiffer chassis due to less need of traction.