Epic Destruction
 

Hooooobooooy...

Never thought I'd see the day this would happen...[:@][:@]

It was a fun day at the track, until I found the steering not quite working right....[&o]

RE: Epic Destruction
 

The key is to keep it rubber side DOWN. :D :D

Either you had a really bad landing on the roof and/or you hit the drivers' stand.

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Thanks Dale...that made me REALLY LOL. Sprayed spittle on my screen and everything.:D

That's the front end of a highly modified/upgraded Jammin X1X CR Team Pro Kit. The thing is a tank. It did take a few tumbles and cartwheels, the track is very hard and unforgiving....and hungry..[:@]

I'm thinking the solidness of the front upright passed all the impact energy through the plastic.

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Hi Tommygun. Damn, thats broken. Could it be that the carbon fiber looses its quality due to the sun.
I used to have problems with my MX bikes exhaust which was also carbon. It turned a gray colour and literally dissintegrated.
Hope you get it fixed up again. Good luck and have fun.;)

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I'm not sure lez1. I'm not an expert on carbon fiber. Anyone know if this could be the case? The car is just under 2 years old and it was the original part.

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looks like the CF gave away and the next tumble probably totaled the rest.

Wonder if that would have happened if you had the alum version of that part instead of the CF one.

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Well SyCo....it begs to ask the question (and I'm by no means an expert), if it would have been made of aluminum, would it have transfered its energy elsewhere and broken something bigger or more expensive....like bending the chasis...[:@]

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Just been looking at the photos again, aparently its not just the carbon that give way. You've got a lot of broken plastic there as well. Looks like it would'nt matter whether it was aluminium or carbon, that was just a very hard crash.
Steering nuckle and diff casing has been destroyed. never seen that much destruction before after a crash.
What you going to do, use the rest as spare parts and get a new buggy for X-mas???

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Exactly Lez1

Hence the title of the thread. Everyone else at the track that day couldn't believe the amount of damage. They and I have never seen that amount of damage in a front end, especially THIS buggie's front end.

Diff casing is completely split [sm=what_smile.gif]

Replace her?? No way. I keep enough spares around to rebuild that kind of destruction twice over bro...[sm=wink_smile.gif][sm=greedy.gif]

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O.K. Cool.
What do you think it was then??? Track to hard (Baked in the sun), maybe a rock under the sand???

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Track too hard, yes that's one factor. Not from the sun though. It had rained in the night pretty hard and that helped to compact things even more. It wasn't a rock, I'm pretty sure of that. We've worked pretty hard to make sure there are no real rocks in the track anymore.

It must have been either one of or a combination of a few glorious wrecks I had. Like one of those freakish NASCAR or F1 wrecks that you never see coming and wonder to yourself..."How did THAT cause the car to flip 14 times??"

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ye, I know what you mean.
Just plane bad luck and a couple other small factors.
What you going to do with the rebuild??? Aluminium or are you sticking with the carbon set up???

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I'll stick with the original parts for the fix. Carbon Fiber original parts. Didn't even know aluminium was available for that part.

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Good morning Tommygun,
Maybe you could make your own alu parts with a sheet of 3mm Aluminium, just lay the original piece on top of the Alu and trace around it, mark the screw holes and drill them out.
O.K, maybe you'll end up bending the chassis but I think that is cheaper than destroying the whole front end of your buggy.
Later dude.;)