ORIGINAL: plasmaedge
djnelson - what setup are you running in your 02.<div>
</div><div>im prety sure it could handle my 12t ezrun with a 2s lipo. </div><div>
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</div><div>mabes a vxl would be fun muahahahaha</div>
man you can easily run the 12t in it I got a 10t with a 35A EZ-run in mine with stock gearing and HB buggy tires, and it doesn't even start to get warm.
On my buggy I'm still using the rear plastic wing mount. That rear metal mod was for my bootlegged DF-02 truck due to the way they made the body mount it introduced a extremely weak spot that didn't exist on the original(although they fixed a lot of the issues that the tamiya suffered like soft shock shafts...)
Now if your talking about the front I took a sheet of 3mm alum and traced the front alum tower on it, due to shattering the diff case mounts on it. The original way the aluminum mount would bend a little(kinda soft aluminum) and put pressure on the screws that held it on, and ultimately crack the mount off. The way I figured the added layer makes the mount more rigid so it will no longer will bend putting that force on the 2 top holes, but instead the forsce is being spread to all 4 holes.
I lifted the idea off J.D.T.'s carbon fiber/alum mount where he bolted the CF mount over the aluminum one, I went aluminum cause I had it laying around. Since I've done it the buggies taken some extremely hard launches, and landed on concrete fine without breaking the case, whereas before I did it I bent the tower from just jumping it of a curb a couple of time using the stock 27t.
You can buy swing shafts off the DF-03 and use those if you get the steel cups, and no more lost doggy bones(just might break a shaft though)
ORIGINAL: djnelsen
I considered filling the plastic supports with epoxy, as you suggested, or even adding additional ribs, but decided that this would do very little compared to what this mod was already doing... for the hingeipin mounts to tear out now, first the pins have to tear through the walls of the chassis.
Ya the way they rip out there is really nothing you can add on to support it. Also I find epoxy (well JB weld at least) don't hold very well to this chassis. I've tried it on my current to cover the battery compartment gaps after I slightly damaged my lipo(which is proving to be a PITA to keep in) on my last chassis.