ok, so i was out playin with the GT today (decided against selling it since that guy backed out...sold the NTC3 instead)
was havin fun
hit a stump (the same one that bent my X-T's chassis)
so who makes an aluminum front bulkhead for the GT and are the Hardcore nose tubes any good? was thinkin about gettin the nosetubes and mounts from HCR.

GPM makes aluminum front bulkheads i think. I would stock up on the stock nose tube mounts...thats what i do.

Get like 3 sets of these http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin...?&I=LX2929&P=7

:s

blah, i can't get my employee discount on GPM parts:P
just my luck, i gotta have the sucker runnin by Friday, and NO shops here have a bulkhead and nose tubes (stock or otherwise) in stock[:@]

Well, if you cant afford it, then I suggest not to crash. [&:]

i can afford it, i'd just rather not pay as much as you mere mortals jk
I think i'm just gonna go with the stock parts and get 3 or 4 sets of 'em.

yup, if you are going to buy a stock part, always buy 3-4 of the same part just incase you keep breaking it.

Hi

I would say stay with the sock front bulkhead's because the GPM aluminum ones are junk. I know because I have a set, and you have to replace the plastic hing pin bushing after awhile. And GPM dose not sell the hing pin bushing by them selves.

word, thanks.
i've had the truck forever, and this is the first time i've really broken it to the point that it can't be driven:P
i've thought about puttin steel braces in there too:P

another thing is that its good to make something like the nose tubes be the weak link so its cheaper and easier to replace than say a whole chassis or all the screws on the front end (which i have done both of those) so keep th stockers. in 99% of the situations its durable. Also AE parts are dirt cheap!

true, i did think about that.
the bulkhead would be FINE, if the threads weren't stripped out.
i'm gonna see if i can't rig it up just so it works so i can go playin at the gravel pit friday:P

why would you hit the same stump that bent your chassis??

live and learn to break stuff

use Super glue on the threads and put set-screws on the bolts on top of that. I have done that and it works like a charm. Heck i would overnight you one if you woulda told me sooner! I got like four of them laying around in my pitbox!

lol dangit.
I'm gonna give the CA a shot. and make some nose tubes tomorrow at work...
maybe i'll paint 'em blue too:P

interesting setup...is that for oval racing with the frontend shoved over??

LMAO.
yeah, but it doesn't steer very well with the nose tube rubbin against the servo saver nut

Hey, I have the New Era nose tubes in Titanium, and i havent had any probs with those bending... They are awesome!

I've got a tap and die now, and i've got the round steel stock (3/16)
I'll put up pics when it's done

Erm man..... I that sounds a little too hard for me. Next time you hit something you can say bye bye to your chassis![&:]

yet another excuse to upgrade
HG still makes that machined aluminum chassis, I'm pretty sure

racing hardcore makes the Ti chassis. Which i sold cause it felt the same to me as my FTGT chassis

The Ti chassis is also really expensive. New Era makes a double deck chassis that it pretty strong.

i think that hardcore racing should put a guarntee on their chassis if it bends or something. dont you agree? Cause paying 135 bucks for something i blink an eye at. I have to say that was one of the biggest wastes of money to me!

if Hardcore had the same guarantee that RPM does, I'd run their parts exclusively.
but, they don't, so I won't.
$100+ for a flat chunk of ANY metal, beryllium, tungsten, I don't care, is too friggin much.