mad monkey carbon rear tower

[gordy]

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?

[daz]

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.

[ConceptRacing]

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.

[lordnikon]

Sure TCModels do one already ???

http://www.tcmodels.net/index.php?op...&limitstart=20

[gordy]

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?,

[ConceptRacing]

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.

[Robbiejuk]

Originally Posted by ConceptRacing

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.

[ConceptRacing]

Sorry Robbie, I know you have been running your perspex version for awhile and dont have any problems with it, if there is no messing about with shocks and camber links then maybe a carbon version of yours would seem to be the answer, something needs to be resolved to stop this part breaking.

[Robbiejuk]

Only problem with mine is that it makes the back end flexible as there is no way of mounting it to the gearbox. So you either need to make a block like tom has, or my soloution which is to make a block to fit bewteen the gearbox and the bulkhead and then drill some holes into the bulkhead to secure it all together with bolts. My solution only really works on the plastic rear bulkhead unless you are man enough to drill the alloy one

I say tom's the man for the new shock tower. I meant to come and have a butchers at your car at southport how does that block attach to the gearbox tom?

Pictures of toms shocktower can be found here...

http://www.oople.com/forums/showpost...82&postcount=4

[Tom3012]

This is the tower im running at the moment and have been since febuary...

Currently a 3 part tower, 2 carbon halves and an aluminium mount to screw into the gearbox... Im going to redesign it so the tower is all one piece and the aluminium mount is smaller and looks nicer but you get the idea!

Anyone interested?

Tom

[stumpiey]

looks very good

[colmo]

Originally Posted by Tom3012

Currently a 3 part tower, 2 carbon halves and an aluminium mount to screw into the gearbox...

Leaving the tower as 3 piece leaves the option of replacing only one half at a time, and those halves would be identical anyway, so can be cut from smaller CF sheets - not sure if it would work out cheaper or more expensive, though.