Custom RC8T carbon fiber chassis question.

[Ryu James]

i am building a RC8T brushless conversion and am going to make my own carbon fiber chassis. my question is this; the stock chassis has the slight angle up on the front end. i cannot find anyone who is willing to make a custom cf piece with a bend in it like that. so i will just have to use a straight piece, which will work, but i am wondering if this will effect how the car performs, handles, or anything like that. anyone tried this before?

obviously i cannot bend the carbon fiber but i have thought about just using a 4mm alum. sheet. can 7075 alum be bent ever so slightly? if so, how is this done? do i just heat it up?



oops. posted this in wrong forum. meant to go in the project x.

[tom255]

Why you plan to use CF on chassis?
If you race your truggy onroad its OK, offroad you will wear it too fast. I made chassis once for LSP front and rear was made from 3mm Aluminium and front kickup bent too. I had 4mm CF and it lasted about 3 races, had couple bad landings. Mountholes for al pieces was wrecked, and also noticed many cracks. I didnt liked a chassis bent too. You need to use double deck configuration. Weight saving is 130grams not worth imho that was with my Al chassis
You dont need heat Al for front kick up, just fix piece to wrench clamp, use piece of wood and hammer, thats all.
And yes front kick up affect on handling and much
If you race and bash stick to Al.
Speedrund, free runs CF is OK

[Ryu James]

Originally Posted by tom255

Why you plan to use CF on chassis?
If you race your truggy onroad its OK, offroad you will wear it too fast. I made chassis once for LSP front and rear was made from 3mm Aluminium and front kickup bent too. I had 4mm CF and it lasted about 3 races, had couple bad landings. Mountholes for al pieces was wrecked, and also noticed many cracks. I didnt liked a chassis bent too. You need to use double deck configuration. Weight saving is 130grams not worth imho that was with my Al chassis
You dont need heat Al for front kick up, just fix piece to wrench clamp, use piece of wood and hammer, thats all.
And yes front kick up affect on handling and much
If you race and bash stick to Al.
Speedrund, free runs CF is OK

i am guessing you didnt have a very high quality carbon fiber. especially if it was splintering. the 3mm sheet i have i can beat the sh*& out of with a hammer and it wont crack, chip, splinter or anything. but time will tell. i get my 5mm carbon fiber sheet this week. it is the toughest carbon fiber i have ever seen. however, i have a sheet of 3mm aluminum to make a backup chassis just in case you are right. i am pretty confident though that this carbon fiber chassis will take anything i can dish out to it. i will load some pics soon.