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Re: Custom Vs. COTS Transmissions
Personally (note: I've never built a custom gearbox) I'd think that it would only make sense if the COTS solution wouldn't fit with an idea, and changing the idea to fit a COTS would make the design worse.
Since there's only 1080 hours in build season (45 days*24 hours a day) you have to make the most of it, and if you spend 10 hours working on a gearbox, that's 10 hours you didn't spend working on something that could give higher returns. By that I mean the final 1% of perfection on the drive train doesn't do as much for how competitive you are as the first 50% of perfection on an arm that could be done in the same time.
TL;DR version: If you need it and have the time for it, go for it, else wise, spend the time elsewhere.
-Frenchie
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