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Originally Posted by sparrow.2
Even if the carbon front shock mount looks nice I'd rather have the standard front shock mount snap in a crash than snapping the front of the chassis off which will happen if you stiffen the shock tower too much...
The brass bulkheads are nice though to get a little more weight over the front axle. Any other shiny bits are a waste of money and usually do more harm than good. Aluminium wishbones are a big no-no.
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Having the tougher front tower fitted does not mean a definate breakage of a chassis every time you have a big crash though. I (like most of the X-Factory team including Ellis) have run the K-Factory bases with our own carbon from tower ever since they came out and in my case (mainly through lack of talent) and in Ellis case (through lack of fear) have had soem horrific high speed crashes through the past 18 months or so and none have directly resluted in a chassis snapping. Dont get me wrong, it does pass the weakness down to the chassis in an impact but it does not mean you will snap chasiss on an X6 (or B4) simply because you use this mount with the added bonus of course that you dont snap anywhere near as many fron towers and finish many more races as a result. (If you added up how many towers snap in the same time that one chassis would go it would probably work out more expensive money wise on towers....)