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Originally Posted by MikePimlott
What about the UK drivers ? have they had Alloy Chassis to compare ?
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
In the UK ?
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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Hi Mike, You can rest assured that all variants of the car and components have been tested on a multiple array of surfaces and all over the world in the hands of the team before the choice was made to go CF. The only material we did not test was in fact a moulded tub since we found with the Squared this restricted us slightly and with constantly evolving cars and set ups a "solid shape" was increasingly hard to work with.
The main difference wit the flex tuning on the Cubed is that removal of any screws will NOT put into jeopardy the strength of the car, all pivot and fixing points have been designed to overlap and multiple pick ups and fixing points on the top deck and chassis mounts allow for a selection of mounting positions to connect it all together, not just as simple as leaving a screw out or putting one in here or there and certainly no body clips holding anything together or in place (other than the body)
The old plastic chassis are probably heavier than you think, in many cases some of the alloy chassis todays are lighter than the plastic moulded ones, I think it was more to create a one piece item rather then to have multiple parts at the time, but on the Cubed this approach is now being used to tune the car as described above. Plus many of the reason why manufactures turned away from alloy in the first place was because it bent and stayed bent, and to be fair this is still an issue on some of todays cars using that material too.
Like I said in my first reply, X-Factory are not the sort of company to simply follow the crowd or make something simply because everyone else does it that way.....
Think you will like it when it arrives, we certainly do....