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Walking around the pits I’ve noticed more fabricated reared housing than an aluminum housing on the 4link dragsters.
Is one better than the other or is this more of a cost/ease of manufacture for the chassis builders. Thanks Last edited by 4214 Champ-0; 09-19-2014 at 04:23 PM. |
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I have seen some of the fabricated housings break, but never seen one of the strange rear ends come apart. you can break a gear in either, but I chose the strange one for the strength. Super Comp 321X
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I'm guessing that once a chassis builder has the patterns and the jig he can build a fabricated housing cheaper than he can buy a Strange ,Mark Williams or aerospace housing.
The only concern I could see with the fabricated housing is the number of welds that could crack and or leak. You could weld attachments to a fabricated one which you cannot or should not do with the cast housing. In my 30 years of racing I haven't seen either fail in a dragster ![]()
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I believe the cast Alum housings are stronger but are heavier. I have a Ed Quay XL Dragster and they offered them standard w/ a comp engineering fab housing standard but offered a MW modular housing at extra cost. My Car has the Fab housing and no issues w/ it. Guess its a more cost effective way to keep cost down but sometimes money isn't an object to some
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