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Originally Posted by ErikLS2
What are some of the advantages of all the individual laser cut pieces welded together vs. the more traditional bent rectangular tubing style?
Very impressive by the way, as is all of the stuff from you guys.
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The advantage is you are able to build a frame rail or part to fit up to a given not flat or formed piece very tightly. It allows you to build a chassis like the original stamped unit on a much cheaper scale then have parts stamped or hydroformed. Sure a chassis like this costs more and there are chassis out there being manufactured that are out of a nominally available rectangular or square tube that work but they then have to hang further below the chassis or have a shorter beam height thus reducing the strength of the frame. We reduced the beam height to improve ground clearance further and keep the same strength or be stronger that a thicker frame just through design. We set out to build the strongest most well engineered chassis and then after we had a product we though was good enough figure out how much to price it at. I'm not concern if other frames are cheaper. Alot of frames in the marketplace are. But make our do things the others cannot because they are built out of a piece of rectangular tubing. Our frames are stronger and sit lower with more ground clearance then any chassis on the market.
Hopefully this babble session answered your question. If not let me know