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Old 07-25-2006, 12:55 PM
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The point of the metal lugnuts is they're stronger than the standard plastic lugs. After I upgraded my EVo8 with 6cells and 2x3 FETs stack, I barely ran that thing 50 feet and it blew a lugnut and tossed the rear-right wheel about a foot away. It's quite disconcerting to see a whole wheel fly off your car!

The point of the Aluminum are:
- much stronger than plastic. If you do some power upgrades, like the 6cell and/or FETs, you run a good chance of stripping and breaking plastic parts under the load of the extra power. Aluminum has no problem taking on the load
- BLING factor! Nice shiny metal looks better cheapy looking plastic

I don't know who told you it makes for better turning, they're equivalent to stock.
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