Aluminum VS Plastic
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I have a HPI Sprint2 I've been thinking about hopping it up with aluminum GPM parts. I already have a graphite, shock towers, center brace.
I wanted to know if it would add a significant amount of weight or not much moire weight to make a difference. Benefit and cons of Aluminum VS Plastic.
I wanted to know if it would add a significant amount of weight or not much moire weight to make a difference. Benefit and cons of Aluminum VS Plastic.
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you wont notice a huge difference in weight, i just put quite a bit of GPM's stuff on my tt01 and all the parts combined didnt weigh much more than all the plastic ones i replaced.
advantages of aluminum are stronger parts of course. this way you hopefully spend less time on the bench doing repairs if you crash and of course it looks much nicer. some food for thought tho is to leave some pieces plastic, if you do smash a wall going top speed you are much better off if your car still has some weak points for plastic to break instead of no weak points which would cause your aluminum to bend.
advantages of aluminum are stronger parts of course. this way you hopefully spend less time on the bench doing repairs if you crash and of course it looks much nicer. some food for thought tho is to leave some pieces plastic, if you do smash a wall going top speed you are much better off if your car still has some weak points for plastic to break instead of no weak points which would cause your aluminum to bend.



