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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
This is not entirely true. An 8wd is easy to chain together even with the kit setup. You'll obviously need the additional hardware and parts. It is very easy to modify the kit chassis with little blocks of tubing bolted on with 3/8" bolt holes milled into them. Select your drop, select your wheel spacing, mill the blocks, bolt them on and you're good to go. You can also drill/mill new holes right into the kit frame, like 2495 did in 2012, but using blocks allows more room for error.
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I'm assuming not owning a mill. I don't know how common they are in the USA, but I know many people there I talked with don't have such equipment, and in Israel only 3-4 teams have them (that I know of, but knowing the teams in Israel I highly doubt a team I didn't ask has one). If you have a mill, than yes, the job's easier.
What I meant by it being more complex is not being hard to design as much as 4/6WD being very easy. I mean, if you have the drive base parts, you can build a drive base without even having to think about it, and I'm not talking only building the KOP by instructions: we've been using KOP parts for our custom drives every year since we started, excluding 2010 and 2013. None of these drives were ever CADed, or even pre-thought of ("let's put plaction wheels, I heard they're better" was usually the most discussion about it before actually building). Only one of these drives ever failed, and even that was because we got the wheels super-late and didn't have time to place them properly.
With dropped 8WD, you obviously can't do that. Not saying it's a good practice to do that, and I really don't like the concept of doing that (the reason we didn't do that this year), but the fact it can be done shows how much easier it is to get a 4/6WD than 8.