Plastic, aluminum or titanium rear body mount? - RC-Monster Forums

Novarider · **Plastic, aluminum or titanium rear body mount? -** 12.12.2009, 06:56 PM

I broke another rear body mount today and I'm wondering if I should upgrade to aluminum or titanium or stick with stock. I break them because I do trick jumps like front flips and when you don't get enough air to complete the rotation and land on the wing instead of the wheels the body mount snaps right where it goes between the chassis and bulkhead. Should I upgrade to a stronger one or stay with stock and get a couple of them?

Bondonutz · 12.12.2009, 08:20 PM

Read this entire thread, it will yield a copius amount of E-Revo information including a rear brace idea w/pictures.

http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/show...evo+rear+brace

Novarider · 12.12.2009, 08:40 PM

I have read that thread but I don't have any way to make the parts he makes

Bondonutz · 11:59 PM

You clearly didn't read the thread thoroughly because Mr C. has posted pictures on how he made the rear body mount brace from a P2 pushrod and some extra hardware.
And I'm sure it's postred elsewhere if you were to do a search ?

BTW, Welcome to the forum

What's_nitro? · 12.13.2009, 12:27 AM

Honestly, it wont matter much what the body mount is made from if you're always landing on it like that. Eventually it will break. The way it is now the plastic body mount is taking all of the stress of the landing. Though it may seem like a weak point, if it were stronger (ie. made from Al/CF/Ti) the stress would just go somewhere else and break that part. I would just stock up on the stock plastic ones which are fairly cheap to replace.

Novarider · 12.13.2009, 08:04 AM

Looks like I should just stick with stock. I did read his thread but can't remember every detail like I didn't realize it was a p2 pushrod I thought he made a custom piece. I don't break it that often this is my seccond one in a month. I'm going to attempt to make the piece that the pushrod attaches to at the shocks

E-Revonut · 12.13.2009, 02:49 PM

I had a brace on my E-revo, I used a small piece of scrap aluminum on top of the rear shock tower and some misc hardware I had laying around with a rocker push tube. Took all of 5 minutes with a dremel tool to make it all work. Never broke again. I tried an aluminum mount but that snapped on my second run!