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Re: pic: Bottom view of The Red Dragon

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Originally Posted by Jay Trzaskos View Post
I would just like to offer a few words of caution for you and your team. 229 used an 8-wheel drive setup in '06 so that we would always have 4 wheels on the ground, whether climbing the ramp or just playing defense. We had some problems with our setup though, due to some heat transfer issues. While welding our superstructure onto our frame, the chassis was slightly warped and ended up giving us 5 or 6 wheels on the carpet at all times. To fix this minor problem, we had to use different types of tread on different wheels, due to uneven wear, and a "hopping" action that happened whenever we tried to turn. From my experience, and without any knowledge of your reasoning behind this decision, i would say that it may not be to the best idea to go with the 8-wheels setup over a 6-wheel drive design.

JT
229
Does that mean that 229 is going back to 6wd this year?
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