Shock towers for bashing
 

I have about 35 or so runs up on my Flux. About 8 runs ago i started getting cuts and scrapes on my ESC wires from the shock tower flexing and it gradually got worse. It seems my shock towers have fatigued. I moved my ESC forward\reversed shock mount bolts and this has helped but i need to replace the towers regardless.

There are aluminium towers available from FLM, Integy, Golden Horizons, GPM and IRC that i am aware off. PRC make carbon fibre towers. I've seen posts where people have bent FLM towers as they are a bit thin on the sides. I haven't seen many comments about other towers except for sometimes the diff case being broken in a hard impact where the tower mounts or body mounts being sheared off.

The driving i do with the my Flux is predominantly bashing and i'm interested in experiences people have had with towers other than the stock for bashing.

Im pretty sure that if you break or bend anything flm you pay shipping and you get a replacement part? or maybe you pay a small fraction of the cost?

id stay away from integy and GPM but that is just me.


My personal experience is with flm parts on my rusty. Sure the rusty weighs less than the flux, but i never have had any problems with them.

Through the past years ive heard nothing but terrible stuff when it comes to integy aluminum..

i bought some GPM parts for my 18t and they broke on me..

go with flm

I think there has only been myself and one other person that have bent an FLM tower - and that was using LST shocks. You wont have a problem at all with them if you run the stock shock setup. FLM quality is top notch.

Crappy aluminum or not, if your breaking aluminum pieces on a 18t you are driving the hell out of it! I have hours upon hours of use on 2 seperate 18t trucks. I broke one front arm clipping something at about 30 MPH, I have also had to replace the front tower on both trucks, both times where due to someone else's driving. Other than that a few parts on the vulnerable front shocks is all I've ever broken even when I had a 5400kv on 3s and cartwheeled for about 75' all that happened was I lost a couple body clips!!!

Sorry for the hijak, never had any FLM stuff but it's supposed to be top notch and a replacment piece is a flat $7

it was some steering blocks and an aarm that broke on me and granted i landed kinda wack and it was a nice sized jump but it wasnt anything out of the ordinary. They didnt completely snap, but they were both cracked and werent able to hold up any longer.

Don't know if this is possible on the Flux, but on my MBX5 short-course conversion, I was bending the rear shock tower a little, so I doubled them up. Been fine ever since.