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Time for RPM to come out with some
I'm on that boat as well, but alum arms alone will destroy bulkheads & break stock hinge pin holders. It would be seriously expensive, but alum bulkheads would be a must with alum arms . . . but the K8S fund is buffed up enough to buy a 2nd one so I'm rdy for all upgrades. The rolly polly plastic RPM uses will simply flex to hell & bend CVDs with just that, even the junk Arrma uses can flex enough to bend them if it's hot out. I'll take a page out of my first DBXL-e that I upgraded with all the alum stuff until it turned into a shelf queen & I bought another. It's by far the toughest big car I own, but every time I look at it, I want to put it under glass I don't want to take the K8S to that lvl. The thing has several years worth of monthly upgrades & I don't even want to know how much I spent on it. I just want to be able to jump or wheelie the K8S w/o finding something busted on it afterwards. The last arm I broke had a biga$$ crack in it & I didn't even see it until I cleaned it up.Arms by themselves breaking is one thing. But usually there is more carnage than meets the eye. Like bent drive shafts/cvd's and pins shock rods and ends and all other closely related parts. That's the big concern with broken arms in general. Broken arms can create a big repair bill when you factor in all the related parts that can and will break during an Arm failure.
Against my better judgement, I am starting to feel that billet $7075$ alloy arms may be the best alternative material for 1/5. But, not counting RPM out of the picture just yet.
The two rears I broke snapped in the same area, close to the pin.I wonder if someone is willing to fill the voids in a arms with an epoxy or a resin. Have we noted if there is a common area where they are prone to breaking?
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