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Originally Posted by gtxracer
Hate to break to you guys, but as much as that thing is an engineering marvel, it's also useless and doesn't stand a chance against rock crawlers.
As a Jeep guy AND an engineering major, that thing is cool machine, but that's it. It would snag everywhere and be S L O W. It's massively heavy and although the idea is solid, the design just isn't compact or fast enough to compete with the rock crawlers of today.
Sorry to be a buzzkill. If you guys really want to see some cool new rock crawling stuff, check out the King of the Hammers race. It's Baja rock crawling on steroids.
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Let me jump in and post my .02 about what ypu just said. Being a Jeep guy and having an engineering major is a big plus towards your opinion but that doesn't mean shi#t to me. I also am an engineering major (M.E and graduated back in 1990) and to me that rig is more than capable of rock crawling. I had my own experience crawling with tube buggies before they became mainstream during my tour of duty in San Diego from 1991-1994 (how old were you at that time
). Majority of rock crawling competitions in the US does not emphasize speed but rather finesse and accuracy in tackling the obstacles. I have seen it done in Moab (never drove though) and only a few of them go fast.
This rig has it's flaws (what rig is not anyways) but for somenody to come up with this is a genius in my opinion. Saying
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it's also useless and doesn't stand a chance against rock crawlers
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is akin to what the Jeep guys used to say when tube buggies first started coming out back in the early 90's.
By the way, I still would not be wheeling a jeep unless it's one of the older models (built CJ5 with the Perkins diesel engine)
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