I have made some progress. I got the cage and steering servo mounted. I am happy with how the cage turned out. I can take it off my simply removing four retaining clips. I am waiting on a pinion from Mike and body mounts. I also need to order a roof plate for the cage and thats about it.
I was surprised when I weighed it and as it sits it weighed 12lbs 9.09ozs! Thats much lighter than I thought it would be. When I'm done it should be at or just over 13lbs.
@othello: I have seen your videos before and they are impressive. This thing is going to haul with a 9xl on 6s2p, but I want to run a HV setup like yours. There are to many reasons not to go HV IMO.(besides relatively high price of esc). I plan on buying a jazz and running 10-12s with my mega 22/45/2
Over all I am very happy with it so far, we'll see how it runs.