by Ralphthe3rd » Sun Jan 11, 2015 9:48 am
DAVE, fyi- AutoWorld didn't Invent the 4 Gear chassis, but Aurora did back in the early 1970's ! The first Aurora(Specialty) built, weren't even Magnatraction, but had the Blue Drag arms, which is a pretty good arm when teamed up with Strong DASH Magnets, but traction will always be a limiting factor on those early chassis, which didn't have a screw in the back which makes those first chassis prone to cluster gear damage. But Aurora added the screw to the rear shortly afterwards, and the rest of the Aurora Specialty Magnatractions, were very smooth running chassis.
But getting back to AW 4 Gear, they can be tuned to be fast and smooth, and a better Rivet and gears started coming out after the first Legends Funny Cars release.....but before that, the chassis had pretty bad binding issues- but can be corrected and tuned to be smooth. And believe it or not, I have tuned AW 4 Gear chassis to be JUST as fast as an AW XTraction pre (Ultra G)Neo magnet chassis. YMMV of course :D