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I'm looking for a new body currently. I'd like a VE8 body, so if anyone has a stock body for sale, I'd be interested. For now, I'm going to run the stock body modified to fit.

Magman - I'd really like to make my own and a rough design drawn up, but one-off cost would be too much and I don't have my own machining facility or equipment. All the modifications I did to the D8 chassis was with a hand-drill and dremel in my garage. I have some scars from that. You'll be amazed how dramatic the handling difference is switching to 1/8 buggy wheels/tires. The plastic's not bad on the DBX. If I hit directly on the front, everything's fine. It's when I land a bit off directly on the wheel. If I were to design and make a new extended chassis, I have several things in mind that would strengthen a couple of the weaker spots and likely not break any more arms (or make it more of a rarity).

nativepaul - that's some beautiful use of CF. I know someone who can make me a CF chassis, but I question the overall durability of a CF chassis considering my poor driving skills. While the turnbuckles, arms, and driveshafts look thin, they're not that weak. The arms break at the hinge pin, but that's because there's no support behind them. They don't break anywhere else. And no problems with the turnbuckles or driveshafts. Because it's lighter weight, there's less force in a crash, so smaller components aren't necessarily a bad thing...it just has to be matched to the application.
For a servo, I use the stock Kyosho digital servo and it does fine. It has enough torque to turn the wheels easily. It's not the fastest responding, but it does the job for now.

I may ask my friend what the cost would be for a CF chassis just to see if it's lower cost than a one-off 7075T6 chassis I had planned. The D8 chassis is a proof-of-concept. Can't wait to test it at the track.