You are probably right Buck. I've noticed my tower ears have bent forward just slightly, but doesn't seem to affect handling or shock action. My concern with running fixed dual braces would be knocking out too much lateral chassis flex and undermining overall handling and tire to ground contact. The center brace allows for lateral flex or side to side twist from front to back, but stops the dreaded taco effect. I like the center brace chiefly to protect from epic failures with hard tail landings. What I mean is where the wing mount system bolts through the rear chassis support. It effectively forms a hinge that relies on 3 anchor points. 2 rear screws on tower and 2 tiny screws on the front of the rear diff case below through bolts. The last anchor point being the chassis where rear support attaches. I had an epic failure recently and was going to do a thread on it, just hadn't made time. Had to fix bent chassis, replace diff case attachment piece, replace chassis support and wing mount. Center support atleast braces this same vulnerable area. This was from a huge, very bad tail landing at packed BMX track running my son's Outcast project with Typhon body and no tower brace. Fixed immediately, all good now.
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You are probably right Buck. I've noticed my tower ears have bent forward just slightly, but doesn't seem to affect handling or shock action. My concern with running fixed dual braces would be knocking out too much lateral chassis flex and undermining overall handling and tire to ground contact. The center brace allows for lateral flex or side to side twist from front to back, but stops the dreaded taco effect. I like the center brace chiefly to protect from epic failures with hard tail landings. What I mean is where the wing mount system bolts through the rear chassis support. It effectively forms a hinge that relies on 3 anchor points. 2 rear screws on tower and 2 tiny screws on the front of the rear diff case below through bolts. The last anchor point being the chassis where rear support attaches. I had an epic failure recently and was going to do a thread on it, just hadn't made time. Had to fix bent chassis, replace diff case attachment piece, replace chassis support and wing mount. Center support atleast braces this same vulnerable area. This was from a huge, very bad tail landing at packed BMX track running my son's Outcast project with Typhon body and no tower brace. Fixed immediately, all good now.
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Didn't know mine was cracked. Bent the chassi and chassis brace twice this weekend. So replaced and made a tower to tower brace like u boys on the forum. Have u bent the chassis since replacing and using the tower to tower ??
I haven't had a chance to take her out yet.
I wanted easy access to drop out the center diff without having to remove the T to T so I removed the two truss parts in the cage I wonder how it will hold up ??