hrew tubing

muleskinner · Nov 23, 2014

I know this has been a debate and most everyone hates it and says it doesn't hold up,but here's my new angry fab buggy I just finished a month r so ago rolled if off a limestone rock yesterday at AOP and I did get some scratches and a minor dent in the tubing

easleycrawler · Nov 23, 2014

I think it holds up fine, my exo is hrew, never rolled it, but seen some that has.

wannabe · Nov 23, 2014

Will hrew work? Yea. Is Dom stronger? Yea. Does cage geometry play a huge role in any of this? Yea.

throttlejunkie · Nov 23, 2014

Is this a still shot of a video? Do you have the video?

billstoy · Nov 23, 2014

oops! that looks like the newer bounty hill, A lot of buggies did the same thing . hate to see that in your new buggy. BROKE in right.

angryfab · Nov 23, 2014

LOL

now that's what it was built for :driving:

Jduck · Nov 23, 2014

Guess I've never understood using a known weaker material especially when dom is <$3/ft. If a couple hundred bucks is the difference in building a buggy and not being able to afford it, you're in the wrong sport.

fltruckwash · Nov 23, 2014

Jduck said:
Guess I've never understood using a known weaker material especially when dom is <$3/ft. If a couple hundred bucks is the difference in building a buggy and not being able to afford it, you're in the wrong sport.

I imagine weight is the bigger issue in a 4 cylinder rig. I personally wouldn't use hrew in an all out 500 horse bouncer built to race... but have used it in alot of other rigs and held up just fine. I guess it all depends on each individuals purpose

fltruckwash · Nov 23, 2014

wannabe said:
Will hrew work? Yea. Is Dom stronger? Yea. Does cage geometry play a huge told in any of this? Yea.

And tube placement is definitely the key...

muleskinner · Nov 23, 2014

Jduck said:
Guess I've never understood using a known weaker material especially when dom is <$3/ft. If a couple hundred bucks is the difference in building a buggy and not being able to afford it, you're in the wrong sport.

I had all yota drive train and wanted a small lite weight buggy and that's wat I had Angry fab build, few hundred bucks would've never made or brake me on this build ha, my last chassis was hrew and never had a problem out of it and it was a lot thinner than this one ,but it's like this everyone has their own opinion and that's why everyones build/buggy is different if we all did the same thing we could never aggravate each other cause we all could climb and crawl the same things :dblthumb:

muleskinner · Nov 23, 2014

billstoy said:
oops! that looks like the newer bounty hill, A lot of buggies did the same thing . hate to see that in your new buggy. BROKE in right.

It is Bill couldn't seem to get it to hook up haha I need me some of those cheater tires that everyone is running I guess

patooyee · Nov 23, 2014

I've had buggies built out of both. I've never felt there was a lick of real-world difference worth paying a single extra penny for. If DOM was cheaper than HREW I would use DOM. Any .120 wall material dents / bends when it hits large, sharp, immovable rocks. If you find that difficult to accept you're in the wrong line of work.

The main difference I've found in terms of how well a chassis / cage holds up is how well it is designed. Triangulation is real.

Nuts · Nov 23, 2014

pachary · Nov 23, 2014

Bend both in a manual bender.

Get back to us with your experience.

Rjhoward32006 · Nov 24, 2014

I've bent both with a manual bender and for a lightweight toyota rig/buggy i wouldnt pay extra for it. Like stated before a bouncer or heavy 500 horse vehicle i would.

wannabe · Nov 24, 2014

If anything I would spent the extra few hundred just for when I sell it. I would bet it would save you more than the few hundred you spent when you sell it.

Nuts · Nov 24, 2014

Why not skip all the bullshit and use chromoly tube? Its "just a few dollars more" per foot, and "when building a high dollar buggy why cut corners"

http://www.ruffstuffspecialties.com/catalog/DOMTUBE.html

TBItoy · Nov 24, 2014

that DOM is very overpriced.

That said, I just got some hrew for under $2/ft delivered. Good enough for what I'm using it for.

Elliott · Nov 24, 2014

Ive seen to many chromeoly cages crack around the welds for me to even think about using it. Hell that's why most of the race buggies don't paint their frames, so that they can keep an eye on them. They use to say that a full tube chassis drag car built out of chromeoly would only save you 150lbs, and that's shrinking bars everywhere you can and using as thin of material as you can and the price would be 3-4 times as much, imo not worth it.

And Ive built full tube buggies out of hrew that did have big motors, and axles that have held up fine to multiple rolls.Like said before its all in the design.

karatejosh · Nov 24, 2014

Re:

Also your sapose to heat treat chromeoly to relax the metal chris taught me a lot about the different properties of tube when we where starting the biuld on my buggy
But everybody will still have there opinion