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GoMachV wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:54 pm We will have Factory Works chassis braces and aluminum pulleys in a couple weeks, I think you will find them worth the wait. Don't need to be used together, but the larger pulley has more belt wrap so it slips less, and the stiffener lets you run the belt slightly looser since you don't have to account from flex

Note that chassis flex and bending is pretty bad with the rerelease chassis in general, it's just more apparent as you can hear the belt skipping on the 4wd. With the new chassis brace if you are taking monster jumps you could well bend or break something else. These old pans just were never meant for the jumps on modern tracks. We would bend our stock chassis back after races back in the day and those were way smaller jumps.

JosephS wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 2:03 pm

GoMachV wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:54 pm We will have Factory Works chassis braces and aluminum pulleys in a couple weeks, I think you will find them worth the wait. Don't need to be used together, but the larger pulley has more belt wrap so it slips less, and the stiffener lets you run the belt slightly looser since you don't have to account from flex

Note that chassis flex and bending is pretty bad with the rerelease chassis in general, it's just more apparent as you can hear the belt skipping on the 4wd. With the new chassis brace if you are taking monster jumps you could well bend or break something else. These old pans just were never meant for the jumps on modern tracks. We would bend our stock chassis back after races back in the day and those were way smaller jumps.

Any thoughts on making a bolt on/through undercarriage protector/stiffener? I know an upper deck/brace would be a better solution, but enough fiberglass or carbon fiber still add some stiffness and could be a universal fit for all the tub chassis.

GoMachV wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 12:54 pm We will have Factory Works chassis braces and aluminum pulleys in a couple weeks, I think you will find them worth the wait. Don't need to be used together, but the larger pulley has more belt wrap so it slips less, and the stiffener lets you run the belt slightly looser since you don't have to account from flex.

GoMachV wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 6:43 pm The braces like we run on the Ten4 won't work well on the AE due to the tensioner as you mentioned. Our system for the AE car is vastly different than the one for our ten4

Rc10812 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 31, 2025 8:00 pm Do the larger pulleys fit right onto the car without other mods?

Looking forward to picking up all my Factory Works gear. My 4wd will be decked out in it. The way i see it Factory Works is at least a little, if not a lot of what I wish AE still was. Small but specialized company run by someone or a team of people passionate about our addictive little hobby and making quality parts that work. To me that was part of the original allure of AE

Another thought I had regarding the issues that come with this kit... every day I feel a little better about my Fan FR-01. At first my concern was that Fan would not have paid as much attention to detail and quality and therefore it would always be slightly inferior to my original. Well as it turns out AE can't even be held up to standards it set a long time ago. I feel like at a very minimum the quality is just as good as current AE stuff maybe even closer to what we all remember. I bought a gold team car and this 4wd kit. I'm not sure what I'm going to feel when this graphite kit drops.