So I decided to mount the battery trays just barely below the CD plate, but just barely above the skid plates. So again if the truck bottoms out the battery trays will be fine, but if I curb the center part it will only hit the platic trays and not the CD plate, at least thats the idea. There will only be about 1 mm to spare on either side if this goes right. This is the only drawback to the way I decided to make this setup, but I dont plan on doing any rediculous bashing. Im going to be pretty careful with it, too big of an investment to trash around.
Heres an idea of what I was saying.
The extra bonus is that it gets the batteries REALLY low on the chassis. All the weight will be very low on this truck to Im hoping itll almost be a Savage Muggy when its all said and done haha...