[lincpimp]

Hey Tim, had a look at the manuals, and the XL rear center shaft is 142mm long, while the X rear center is 84mm long. The wheels shafts for both are 123mm long, but the XL is 1mm thick vs 9mm thick on the X. So the rear driveshaft is around 2.2" longer on the XL. According to the Savage 5t info they added 2.2" to the length of the XL to get the correct wheelbase for the Baja 5t body. Since the front driveshaft on the xl is 78mm long, going to a XL rear center shaft would give the required 2.2" of addl wheelbase. So it appears that the Savage 5t has 2 142mm long shafts (hpi p/n 86054) as center driveshafts, and the tranny must be in the center of the chassis.

Wheelbase on the XL is listed as 395mm, so adding 2.2" to that would be 55.8mm + 395 = 450.8. That is a bit off the 562mm listed on the Savage 5t specs.

Going with your Baja 5t measurements of 21.25" or 540mm, something is a bit screwy with the description of the Savage 5t's extra length. To get an Xl up to 5t body size it would take 145mm extra, or 5.6".... All i can say is that front dogbone it lllloooonnnggg...

I will do more thinking and figure something out!

So the Xl tranny placement will be fine for me, I am wondering how much space will be left in front of the tranny? Since the XL uses the same front center shaft as the X, I should be able to see the difference with some quick measurements.