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Originally Posted by thaking
Oldtimer, can u tell some of the main purpose and advantage of using this conversion kit rather than the alu chassi that follows the kit?
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Four main reasons off the top of my head
1 - Tweak, its is very unlikely you will tweak a carbon fibre chassis and even less if the cf is moulded into a tub. The alum chassis on my 410 was tweaked out the box ! its was banana shaped front to rear by 3mm this was reduced to 1mm once the plastic sidepods were add. So for me the 410r chassis on my car is comprised even before i get to the track.
2 - Space, as the tub floor is flat all the way to the tub walls you have a lot more room to place you electrics were you want them.
3 - Flex, with the tub chassis i can adjust the thickness and also the materials used to make the tub chassis, which can be used to adjust the way the chassis flex's in a controlled way. The current chassis is 2.6mm thick and a full carbon fibre layup, this can go down to 2.3mm or upto 4mm. Then i can replace some of the inner layers of cf with fibreglass which is heavier but less strong (we did this on the S2 flex chassis, to flex the chassis to generate grip on dirt tracks). Once we have done some testing with the tub chassis we will determine the optimum setup of materials and thickness.
4 - Bling, a cf tub chassis just looks so good
and with our special red cf outer as a option along with the other red cf parts for the durnago it would be a special car. I guess you could add some Tresrey red alum parts as well to complete the red look lol.