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i was wondering if titanium bumpers would be good for bashing? i know that the aluminum ones arent too good but i figured since titanium is stronger than aluminum they would be better.

bryan
 
All depends how you look at it I guess.

In your bashing, depending on how extreme you get, you will want some parts to actually take the brunt of the hit and absorb that damaging energy. The bumpers are definately one of those parts. At the same time, you want that same part to give at a certain point. Otherwise, it will just act as a transfer point for all that energy to flow through. In the case of the maxx, that would go straight to your bulkhead areas. When you see the entire front end assembly busted off of a maxx you can see that the chassis will give ultimately. I would stick with aluminum. But hey, thats nothing more than my opinion.

Id rather have a Ti chassis, bulkheads, bulkhead spacers and cage all made of Ti. Everything else plastics and alum's.

Hinge pins and turnbuckles should be Ti as well but I consider those 'terminal' parts like tackle when you go fishing.
 
I've still got the stock bumpers and stock bulkheads, and the only thing I've ever broke in that area are a couple of bumper supports. the stock ones are pretty weak, and that's why I still keep them, because they give so much. I run the mess out of my Maxx, slamming it into trees and landing nose down and ass end up, and the stockers seem to take the hit pretty good. Hey, it's kind of funny, but the stock bumpers are about the only thing that have taken constant abuse and not broken yet.
So, whatever you get, listen to what Christain said about them being there to take the force of an impact. I suppose titanium bumpers would be ok if you maybe used RPM supports. But if you've got titanium bumpers and aluminum supports ect ect ect than the hit of the impact has to go somewhere, and it's going to keep going until it finds a week spot.
 
i have aluminum bumpers right now but i was just wondering if titanium was better.

bryan
 
I've been running aluminum bumpers on my Maxx since I got it. They are all scratched up, but still in working order. Christian had the right input to this. If you intend to metal up the truck, make sure you leave suitable plastic parts in places to allow for shock absorption. The bumper braces are a good place for that.

Titanium is better than aluminum, but in this application you will be spending more money than you need to. My recommendation is to just get aluminum and go from there.
 
First of all Christian definitely has the right idea when it comes to Titanium pins and Turnbuckles. Since adding Ti hinge pins less then a week ago I'm doing jumps that would have definitley bent the pins and eventually broken the A-arms as a result of the bent pins breaking through them (I've decided to stick with stock a-arms for now as the pins really are a weak ass link and not the a-arms as much). I've also got Lundsford Ti turnbuckles and pivot balls and while I don't think they're AS necesssary like the Ti hing pins, I'm glad I got them.

As for bumpers....evenyone talking energy transfer has the right idea and I wouldn't run any kind of Titanium or even the best alluminum (probaly T-6 coated with nickel) unless you plan on breaking more poop and possibly adding more weight so you can have an "alluminized" Maxx (no offense to those choosing to go the metal route but I wouldn't in a million years if they where giving it away...unless you wanted a show car).

Energy transfer and absorption is the name of the bashing game and while Ti titanium abosrbs energy better then aluminum, it doesn't absorb is better than rubber/plastic/nylon. Like others have said, energy has to go somehwere......bullkheads, braces, shocks and shocks tops etc (I've broken them already). I would run either a Proline or RPM front bumper and definitley properly installed RPM bulkhead braces. I'm running the RPM bumper front and rear now and the proline doesn't stick out as much on the sides which could be a problem if your driving through tight spaces at highs speeds (trees for example). If your really hardcore you'll notice that both bumpers have great aproach angles for hillclimbing and rockcrawling (it's not going to really ammount to anything through...it's not a real truck..or is it..lol).

I would also run the entire 3 piece RPM skidplates. I still don't understand why everyone thinks that a front Ti skidplate is prefferable to strong rubber/plastic/nylon as again it isn't going to break but it doesn't absorb energy as well. Unless your running a chiload of other Ti components.

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