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Old 16-05-2013
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Originally Posted by YoungChazz View Post
For about six months two of our Team drivers here in the U.S. have been testing Aluminum chassis Cubes, and they are faster than the Squared.
What about the UK drivers ? have they had Alloy Chassis to compare ?

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Originally Posted by YoungChazz View Post
With the CF X - 6 Cubed, the most important part of the set-up sheet will be which top deck bolts are snugged down tight, which ones are a bit loose, and which are not installed at all. Can't do that with aluminum...
This can be done on the Schumacher 2WD alloy chassis by the number of screws or body clips in the top deck! Or just like leaving screws out of side pods to tune Flex on Alloy chassis ? XB4

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Originally Posted by Darren Boyle View Post
Alloy was tested and the Carbon was found to be far better
In the UK ?

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Originally Posted by Darren Boyle View Post
Alloy is nothing new, the Schumachers, Associated's and Kyosho's of the early 90's (and late 80's) were all alloy, before they went through the phase of moulded versiosn of graphite/plastic and carbon fibre chassis's and back full circle to alloy again. I would bet sometime in the future it all moves around again too.....
i suspect the move to carbon / plastic tubs was to save weight when Nimhs where being used, when we switched to lipos the X6 (Ellis) weight kit made huge improvements to handling, every other manufacturer has learned from this and is now using heavier Alloy Chassis again.

Just my opinions guys, I was looking forward to the release and i got myself a B4.1 ready.
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