clifflivs

I have a new T-maxx 3.3 (with the extended chassis). I have had the truck for about 3 months now, and I have beat the living crap out of it. Ive done double back flips and everything, and it hasnt broke a thing (except when the darn tree jumped out in front of me. lol ) But I have recently started racing it at the local track. And it is just one thing after another. I have a broken turnbuckle, shock caps, no bumpers anymore, and skid plates broken. Is racing that much harder on the truck then bashing it? Most concerning to me is the fact that I have broken the gas tank (someone bumped me into the wall during the straight, and I hit one of the railroad ties holding the track together), and 2 engine mounts and actually cracked the engine block on my engine. Is there anything I can do to protect this stuff without making the thing extremely top heavy from a roll cage? Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

bigblock454XXL

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Wow. . .All of what you've broken except for the Engine mount and Engine Block, I've broke while bashing. I've owned 3 T-maxx's, the last being the Newer 4908 3.3. I thought all those things were just typical brakeage from bashing. I would think that RPM parts are good along with titanium turnbuckles. Shock caps you can get aluminum if you so desire. My Tmaxx ran flawlessly for prolly 4 or 5 months then stuff started breaking but I wasn't worried. When I got replacement parts are tried to buy an extra one so I'd have another. Hope you can figure something out.

gettnbetter

A couple buddies have the same problem, had to replace a lot of parts with metal for strength. One friend put a wing on which was the worst thing ever.. 1'st rear end accident broke the whole upper shock tower off the rear plastic bulkheads, replaced those with metal and it's been ok since. They both had to buy a roll cage to protect the engine and mount, even the stronger expensive machined traxxas engine mount cracked on one when he landed it on it's top. The suspension arms can actually pull the tops off the shocks so yea, you'll need to get some nice metal ones, associated 1600's worked awesome for that...
They also had to add something like RPM skid plates on top of the stock traxxas ones because they broke with the same description as you describe.
Had to replace the driveshafts (noteably the rear one) because the stock plastic ones just couldn't handle the added weight of all the metal parts, plus the rear shaft takes a beating due to the lack of a center diff.
Had to replace the suspension pins but obviously, if you whack into a rock somethings gonna give haah
Had to replace all the suspension arms with RPM units cause the stockers cracked..

They seem to be rather stable now but it has required a lot of fixing.

You could add the rear wing, it will help to protect the engine but keep in mind as I mentioned you must also get metal (aluminum) bulkheads, the upper shock tower will crack right off the 1'st time you are rearended.