For some time I have been looking at Aluminum parts that I could upgrade, but I came across link that advertise a Super Skeleton which included pretty much everything that needed to replace on a stock T-maxx, with exception of engine, tranny, pipe, servos and so on. But the total amount was 369.00. Now the parts are made out of machining, and has a dull finish to it. Just wondering if you all heard about this, I am only interested in this because alot of my screws had striiped and I had to resolve it buy cutting away with my dremel..ouch. So I was went ahead and did some research on a skeleton.
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if its the skeleton I'm thinkin about, the parts are fairly high quality but they are very heavy. they made out of a chunk of aluminum with no skeletinizing whatsoever. they are strong but its cause they have alot of matierial.:horsecrap
If you are wanting a show maxx then that would be the way to go, because you could anodize what you wanted and keep the aluminum look to. If you are going to bash then I wouldnt recommend it. You can get it cheaper on ebay. The same compant (american cnc maching) I beliueve is what there called sell it on there for 300. Just go with aluminum bulks rpm a arms and rpm bulk braces. aluminum chassis braces. All that aliminum is too much forgetting crazy.
I not for sure how heavy it is. You can ask anyone on here that you really dont want all aluminum parts. When you crash into something at a high speed aluminum tends to bend and there is a good chance for bending alot of stuff considering it is all together. Aluminum parts aint cheap. Rpm has great stuff for getting crazy and if you break there stuff it has a lifetime warranty. You send it to them they replace it no questions asked.
From what I hear..
If you want a crazy tough truck. You probably want to keep RPM nylon/plastic A-arms (lifetime warranty, and hella tough).
Aluminum A-arms bend, and when they do, they hurt anything they are attached to.. It's better to have breakable A-arms.
As for skids, RC solutions has spring steel skids, that dont break or bend, they just spring right back to their original shape.
The you most likely want aluminum bulkheads, and diff cases.
This way on a hard impact, your A-arms will give, and the substructure is nice and hard, so nothing else gets tweaked or broken.
So what most try to do is make a good solid aluminum foundation. With easy to replace sacrificial parts like A-arms.
If you have strong aluminum arms, they will be tough to break. The dowside is that when you have a bad wreck, everything the A-arms hook up to that is plastic will pretty much be shot.
This jutst what gathered. I'm still 80% stock. I havent broken enough to do a complete rebuild yet.
**edit** damn that thing looks tough. It looks like it would be hard to break. Then again when it does it looks like it would cost a lot to get it fixed.
If you want a crazy tough truck. You probably want to keep RPM nylon/plastic A-arms (lifetime warranty, and hella tough).
Aluminum A-arms bend, and when they do, they hurt anything they are attached to.. It's better to have breakable A-arms.
As for skids, RC solutions has spring steel skids, that dont break or bend, they just spring right back to their original shape.
The you most likely want aluminum bulkheads, and diff cases.
This way on a hard impact, your A-arms will give, and the substructure is nice and hard, so nothing else gets tweaked or broken.
So what most try to do is make a good solid aluminum foundation. With easy to replace sacrificial parts like A-arms.
If you have strong aluminum arms, they will be tough to break. The dowside is that when you have a bad wreck, everything the A-arms hook up to that is plastic will pretty much be shot.
This jutst what gathered. I'm still 80% stock. I havent broken enough to do a complete rebuild yet.
**edit** damn that thing looks tough. It looks like it would be hard to break. Then again when it does it looks like it would cost a lot to get it fixed.