Do you mean the time line is pretty even? Cause cost is nearly $1000 difference not including shifters.
Yes, wait time.
Although if you go to the pro case, which I believe is billet, it passes up the mmw pretty easy.
First - History, new owners don't matter to me. Great concepts and parts that burned allot of people.
Second - Not a fan of their shifter design and their overall case look. Their shifters look weak. I guess I just prefer a traditional rail style verses their goofy hinge design.
Third - Costs... They're just too much for what's going on. All back to me not being a fan of them and their product
Far as costs goes - I would pay 2k for a MMW case. We'll see if they can their shit together or not.
Fair enough, I was just curious.
I guess I didn't look closely at the shifter design. They claim it's better and I wouldn't be surprised if it is. 205s, D300s and even some atlas' often shift like shit.
Atlas's aren't bullet proof, but where are the breaks being seen? Pretty much everyone that I've seen (web or personally) was in a big tire, big HP rig. Until the Hero case came along (which has is now it's whole own shit show), it was either an Atlas, or an SCS case (but you're stuck with one gear then until you swap it out, no high/low).
Not all atlas' are created equal. I'd bet most big boys are running the pro will all the options.
I had an older 6 spline (pre 05?) version apart recently and holy shit, what a retardedly weak looking shaft. Doesn't exactly matter for this exact discussion, but is still a factor if you hear "my buddy broke an atlas" it's almost like saying "my buddy broke a D60" there are a lot of variables there.
Looking at things, we've had STaK which was a nice case with some issues, go completely belly up. Same with Behemoth, and the Hero case seems to be more headed that way.
Are they actually belly up?
A buddy bought a 3spd mini stak years after I thought they were gone. He ran it a fair amount for about 10 years without issue. Was a pretty killer set up for a trail rig with ~2.3 and 5.4:1.
Behemoth is still around, but new owners? I get the hesitation, but I'd think they may prove themselves eventually. They really should have just changed the name.
What's the latest with hero? I thought it was some crazy stuff like the company hired to make the gears stole the product?
For small, lightweight cars, it becomes a decently simple difference: is the ~40 lbs. and smaller-ish backpacking worth the added cost and risk? But then again, looking at some of the top cars (looking at TH and the Trail Breaker), you see many a D300, especially with portals becoming far more common. I'm sure we'll see more of the aftermarket cases eventually, but if I were a competitor, it just wouldn't be worth not being able to get parts.
The few trail breaker rigs I looked at were just running regular iron D300 housings anyway
Nothing really released, just learned through friends/acquaintances what all went on behind the scene, why cases are barely if at all moving (or likely to stop completely), and that the overall owner is a giant POS essentially.
There must just be something about building tcases that attracts a certain type of retard
