Originally Posted by
Mundy1
Craig,
A couple questions regarding your brace.
The rod ends and their connection to the carbon rod:
Are they just inserted not threaded into the carbon rod?
This provides stiffness under compresion with the rodends bottomed out against the carbon rod but in the event of expansion would telescope?
Exactly correct. I didn't measure it, but I'd guess the expansion is less than .030, but it's there by design.
Originally Posted by
SourDieselX
Craig, I noticed you're running saddle packs, I also know Mantis runs saddles as well, with the straight packs you're able to run that battery bar which pretty much seems to act as a chassis stiffner, how much flex were you getting before the bar? Is there really much of a change in behavior of the truck from saddle packs to a straight pack?
I didn't have a method to measure it before or after (I only ran it once with the stick pack). In any case, the carbon straps I have on my chassis are built out of necessity because I use 1c batteries (different size than conventional saddle packs). IMO they don't do anything for stiffness.