I can't remember breaking a shock tower on any of my buggy's in a very long time although once a marshal stepped on my XXX4 and broke the rear tower once (ouch). My X-5's rear shocks seem to bottom out before the chassis if you lad a big jump to one side or the other. It flat bottoms fine but the shocks seem to long? If I were to land at the right angle (well wrong angle) all the energy would be transformed to one wing of the rear tower so I'm sure this would help to disperse the energy. At least I think so.
