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Re: 8 Wheel Chassis Design

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Originally Posted by sdcantrell56 View Post
A supershifter is just the AM Gen1/2 with an added stage of gearing. This is heavier and lower efficiency. I would suggest sticking with the Gen1/2 unless you have a good reason to swap like needing to direct drive a wheel. Even so you could make a custom transmission for that using wcproducts gears or better yet drop to a 3" wheel and you can run a stock AM Gen1 direct drive
If you are looking to decrease significant weight, look to 1:1 replacement gears for the gears in the supershifter. You can find them here:

http://wcproducts.net/gears-20-dp/
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