xx4 front shock towers

[bigred5765]

we all know that there is a shortage,
do you think theres enough people out there that would buy a machined alloy bottom brace. same shape as bottom half of the shock mount with a carbon top, same geometry etc,and does anyone fancy machining them or pre ordering them let me know your thoughts,
machinest out there that fancy this job pm me please

[trekkerkk]

me personally,
i think its a good idea as it crosses over xx4 x5
i would buy it

trekkker

[jimmy]

Sounds a good idea to me Carl. Losi seem to have dropped the ball a little with their support for this car and I don't even know why. Unless all the machines are busy pumping out toys at the moment?

[bigred5765]

heard two rumours
1 is mould has been dropped and broken
2 there dropping support for this / but i dont know what that means, ether new car or dropping 4wd

[tyreman]

Carl what your after already exists!

It's the Josh Cyrul conversion for the street weapon, from Trinity. It comprised of: lower alloy shock mounts front and rear and 3mm thick carbon plate towers that bolted to them.

[bigred5765]

were can i get em from brian

[Doomanic]

Unfortunately, those parts have been unavailable for years.

If anyone has a Street Weapon with them fitted, I'll pay good money for it.

[bigred5765]

yeh me too
brian over to you

[losixxx]

carl you are desperate to get one arnt you

makes me wonder how much my brand new old type graphite one is worth

[Funkymojo]

Would love have those alloy bits too...

[AndyM]

does any1 know how much they would cost to machine the aluminium parts? or to make the carbon ones?

[Doomanic]

If I can get a set to measure I can get the aluminium parts made locally. I cannot even guess at a price until the engineering company has seen the complexity of the parts involved.
Getting the carbon parts made is no problem at all, from past experience I would expect the towers to cost in the region of £10-15 each in 4mm carbon fibre.

[Chrislong]

If this is a fit and forget replacement for the fit and snap losi towers - count me in!

Might be worth designing into the lower mount - vertical ballstud mount?

Chris

[AndyM]

if i can find some1 to machine some for me, ill get some done.

just need to find some1 to machine them for me, any ideas?>
or any ideas in ways to maybe change it, like chris' idea about the vertical ballstuds

[matdodd]

count me in to

[Slimboyfat]

me too

[ashleyb4]

And me

[ashleyb4]

Surely if we got enough people to contact losi about it they will act. Another option is xfactory. Because they have none in stock which means they will need to get hold of some or get some made because soon they will run out then they will have to find an alternative and as the x5 is a new car i dont think they will be wanting to make a new car just yet. So if they run out of shock towers people will stop buying the x5 which results in profit loss.

A

[tyreman]

Originally Posted by ashleyb4

Surely if we got enough people to contact losi about it they will act.

If it was anything to do with the Losi 8ight buggy/truggy then maybe it would speed things up as thats whats selling at the moment, we are only a tiny sector of the market, compaired to 1/8th.
unfortunately

[bigred5765]

thanks for all the replies guys I'm now convinced its worth doing,
i have contacted a very well know model engineering company thats looking into machining em,
he guessed at around 30 quid ish for the fit and forget alloy and around 4-6 quid for graphite bits in ether 3mm or 4mm carbon
don't take the 30 quid as gospel the more i get the cheaper. the less the dearer lol