BillDeLong
Joined: 24 Oct 2012
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 Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2012 4:55 am Post subject: |
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I was recently in a similar bind, and I ultimately went with the DM-1 SPECe.
Having recently converted an RCBe into a GT8, I have about 6 days of racing experience with it, but knew that I needed to get a new car that was designed to handle on-road.
I was extremely pleased with DM-1 out of the box, it handles like it's on rails after my first day of racing it this past Sun, however it's no where near as durable as my RC8Be.
My local on-road track uses 8" tall barriers made out of lumber for the track layout and I've never broken a single part on my RC8Be when "rubbing" the walls around tight corners. I couldn't finish a single race without popping out my front suspension arm when tapping the corners. My fast lap was a full second faster with the DM-1 vs my RC8Be, but it's hard to justify if I can't finish a single race with it.
I plan to re-manufacture some custom aluminum suspension blocks that don't use the plastic A-B caps and hopefully I won't run into anymore durability problems in the future.
There are other racers at my track running the GTP and they don't seem to have any durability issues like this from what I can see. |
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