Typhon Buckled chassis?

[Garcbomber]

Why no chassis braces with an upgraded chassis? I’m intrigued.

Mainly unnecessary weight and component removal for service, but you also need wing structure and to tie into the rest of the design(front top brace). Composite braces would be adequate to allow minor chassis shock absorption but not damage dogbones on severe deflection using an upgraded thickness/material plate.

 

[cmoney]

Mainly unnecessary weight and component removal for service, but you also need wing structure and to tie into the rest of the design(front top brace). Composite braces would be adequate to allow minor chassis shock absorption but not damage dogbones on severe deflection using an upgraded thickness/material plate.

I have these cheap Chinese braces on my typhon and they are so light. I agree that an m2c brace set would add weight but these hardly do.

 

[Garcbomber]

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I have these cheap Chinese braces on my typhon and they are so light. I agree that an m2c brace set would add weight but these hardly do.

Typhons are a little more straightforward to service diffs where the 6S Mojave/Big Rock/Fireteam have all the additional bumper supports and body mounts.

These force you (if you want to be efficient) to remove the entire front or rear bulkhead assembled. Agreed though that on a basher, it's really not much of a savings in weight and hardware to run without the center braces.