I understand that your using traxxas bulks and arms but why use the traxxas steering? If your going for a 1/8 design you may want something a little stronger and with a better servo saver such as a true 1/8 scale steering setup

Dude, that looks "REAL GOOD" nice work.

Sick build man! I love some of your idea's, and also very curious how your going to do the chassis?

Are you planning to make it a pan chassis?

The aluminum chassis in the picture (for example, not actually size was from a prior build) is going to be Carbon Fiber that gets sandwich between the aluminum braces and a titanium e-maxx skid plate. It goes all the way to the e rear with no skid plate. I only used the front skid plate to keep the kick up.
The top plates starting from the back of the truck are going to be C.F. Also . It will get bolted to the top of the e-maxx bulkhead and stop at the 90 on the rear brace. The middle is pictured but does need to be trimmed to length. The front plate will be as wide as the gearbox and will taper in to the front bulkhead. The servo will be mounted to this plate upside down and parallel to the drive shaft b. This is why I need a 90 degree servo saver . I was torn with using the factory e-maxx steering set up so I do have a plan B coming in the mail.
All that being said, understand this was an E-MAXX I bought used for a $100 to tinker with. Somewhere it went horrible wide right. I have trouble find boundaries when to stop.
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sorry forgot pics again

update
 

still slow going but heres updated photo for progress so far

looks nice...just wondering if you ever considered stretching the chassis a bit more for more stability

the wheel base is alittle over 15 1/2 " I didnt want to make it too long. I had a test chassis that was quite a bit shorter and it work real good, so well seehow this one does. As for making it anylonger, it would pretty much be a redo and it took me a LONG time of what little spare time I do have to get this far.

Heres alittle update. Still have quite a bit of work left to do but, at least this gives you a better look of what it's going to look like

Interesting work
 

Interesting work you have there. Its always nice to see someone working a little bit out of the box. Overall it will still look like an EMaxx, but I look forward to seeing how your chassis holds up and how it handles for you. Keep up the good work.

Looks good, I wonder if you can take shome shots in daylight. I don't think the pictures are doing it justice.

Nice work!

Thanks for the compliment, heres some better pictures. It's still been slow going, still have alot of work ahead. Im making a brace for the top of the steeing bellcranks, new top plate for servo, sand and reclear bottom of chassis and a few odds and ends.

Here's some more pictures.I had some time to throw at it this weekend and got quite a bit done but, still have alittle more to do. I still have more buying to do :( G.A. bulkheads, new shocks, battires, charger, servo , esc and motor (mamba monster.) Any one have a good charger and battires they would suggest? I have a new HV novak to use for now. Well I hope you all like what I've done so far it took me a long time to get this far.

pretty! haha looks real nice!
any idea when the new bulks are going to come?

Well ,havent bought the bulkheads yet. I going to buy the battires and charger to get it running frist so I can work out anything I dont like. And as for "pretty! haha looks real nice!" is that pooking fun or ............... ??