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Originally Posted by dmaciel10123
After seeing the intensity of the competition this year and having to repair damage from bent frames due to impacts on the field, as well as having to change out wheels from competition to competition, I decided I'd try my hand at designing a new chassis.
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I like this line of thinking: "It didn't work so I'm gonna try to fix it" Kudos on that one.
The bigger question: Why did frames fail due to impacts? I ran much thinner material this year and took a massive beating but had 0 failures in my frame. I'm curious what the difference was. So I'm going to ask a few questions since I assume you had a frame fail hence looking at this...
1) Did you have 100% bumper coverage?
2) What was your frame like this year?
3) Where did your frame fail?
In the bumper era I'm always confused when I see teams having frames fail. With proper bumper coverage the KOP frame should be more than adequate. Heck, we used thinner material on our intake and never had a material failure in it (we DID have failures of VP belts though). So I'm really curious what sort of failures you had.
Also, RE changing wheels: Colson wheels. We're well north of 100 matches and hours of drive practice and not even thinking of changing wheels.