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Old 02-10-2011
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Hi is there currently a carbon fibre rear shock tower available for the mad monkey? And if not, is there enough interest for me to get Full Option racing to start producing one?
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If its carbon fibre then will it be flat? I ask this cos ive just made one out of alloy as a bit of a experiment. Problem I had was when it was bolted to the back of the mount, I had to place the shocks on the other side of the tower. And this made the shocks catch on the turnbuckles, tried to space them out on the wishbone and gave to much of a angle, also the wing mounts would be set really far back.

I also modified it to fit to the front of its mount, looked a bit better, but had to butcher it to make fit and couldnt be arsed to make another, so didnt really get the final verdict on it.

If you do design one, could you incorparate the camber links and add a few more holes so the camber links can be made shorter.
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considering I broke 2 yesterday at Broxtowe, yeah I would love to see a carbon version but not a flat one, if it could be shaped to retain the original shape that would be cool, I know a couple of people are using a perspex flat version, but I would prefer to keep the standard shape to save any messing about with shocks and camber links.
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Sure TCModels do one already ???

http://www.tcmodels.net/index.php?op...&limitstart=20
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ok ill look in to getting some made.it will probably be billet and carbon combo.
i think the ones tc do are for the rat and truck looking at the part numbers. is everyone's towers braking in the same place?,
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Mine seem to break on the ear parts of the tower, ie the peices of plastic that form the part where you would fit the shock mount.
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i could do with every one that's broke one to tell me where it broke.if they all brake in the sane place then maybe we can make a carbon brace instead of a hole shock tower it would. certainly be cheaper
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Your more than welcome to have the one thats on the car at the moment, its cracked rather than actually broken.
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I've already got the drawings gordy

Speak to me on Friday!!
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This is where my son seems to keep breaking his. I did wonder if a horizontal brace across the top would help.
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yep, thats where iv broken them, did 2 in one night, i now carry 4 spares plus one that iv filled the gap in with araldite
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http://www.tcmodels.net/index.php?pa...mart&Itemid=71

Looks like what you need. Annoyed I didn't spot it when I did my last order from them... only hop-up my X2C is missing now.
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http://www.tcmodels.net/index.php?pa...mart&Itemid=71

Looks like what you need. Annoyed I didn't spot it when I did my last order from them... only hop-up my X2C is missing now.

That's for the TC02 (mad rat) not the TC02C (mad monkey/X2C)
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This is where my son seems to keep breaking his. I did wonder if a horizontal brace across the top would help.

That's where mine went as well
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As mentioned, that carbon tower will not fit the x2c or mad monkey, its is for the x2 and madrat, the four mounting holes are in different places...

Ive got a carbon tower on my x2c which i custom made, im going to re-design it and potentially sell if theres enough interest, but when i made the first one i had no interest...

Got a few other option parts in the pipeline too, watch this space
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Doh... should have known that as I have one on the back of my X-Pro!
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Its the one item that puts me off running this car much, cant really keep loads of towers as spares, never need to change the tower on the Rat, if anyone can release a better version that would really good and give me reason to run the car more often.
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I will speak to Mr "Full Option Racing" next time I see him (Friday) and wil pass him the info I collected. I am sure he will be able to come up with something for you guys.
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considering I broke 2 yesterday at Broxtowe, yeah I would love to see a carbon version but not a flat one, if it could be shaped to retain the original shape that would be cool, I know a couple of people are using a perspex flat version, but I would prefer to keep the standard shape to save any messing about with shocks and camber links.
There isn't any messing about with camberlinks or shocks, You just need to mount the shock tower on the opposite side of the bulkhead

Cross brace would be a good idea though then you don't need to find some way of stiffening up the back end.
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