Hot Bodies D8 CORR Truck

my friend just got a D8 and we are racing in marry vill so we will se how it does...... O and he also has a losi and he said when the mbx6 and the mp9 comes out he will get thoes and just drive all 4 of them lol

Well finally got it started

This time unlike my X2 conversion i started straight off with the center diff , motor mount and servo tray etc . Next will be the battery tray .

Chose this route as that's the parts that need modding to get them to fit , so the rest of the buggy will be the standard build and should go smoothly without having to take things apart .

First couple pics are off the center diff and motor mount .
Thanks to Ty the HB team driver who test fitted the truggies center diff mounts to the D8 for me before the buggy was released to make sure they fit as you can only get a brushless motor mount for the truggy .

So in went the RCM motor mount and truggy front center diff mount . The diff fits perfect and tying them together is a Kingheadz alloy Lightining center diff top plate , no modding needed .
The only thing i changed from the box set up was going to 7000wt oil in the center diff instead of 4000wt as we know the torque of the brushless motor usualy requires this from the get go.

Next came out the trusty dremel . I cut the battery / servo tray behind were the normal hump battery pack would go as i decided to use this battery box for my receiver .

To get it to fit though i had to cut part of the rear left side of it for clearance of the motor pinion gear and to allow for gear mesh .

You can see were i cut if in the pic , then all that was left to do was attach the steering servo and put a couple of notches in the battery box lid to allow for the receiver antenna and future esc wiring to go through.
The steering servo lead just feeds at the bottom of the box as there was already a hole there.

That's it for now , lipo tray being fitted tomorrow .

A little more progress with the battery tray , front end and slash bumper fitted today .

So far about three hours into with only the rear end and shocks to go

Easiest kit i have ever built apart from some modding for the conversion .
Just trimmed the body roughly up front for now so i could get the bumper in the right spot , and the wheelbase is spot on .

Here is a close up of how i fitted the slash bumper , which actually turned out very easy and i hope the rear bumper works out this easily.

I just shaped the skid plate part of the slash bumper like the bumper in the D8 kit and installed it like the stock one sandwiched in between the front diff housing and chassis.
Then the support for the bumper fell perfectly on a spot on the front diff housing which has quite a thick bit of a flat surface area to it , so i just screwed the support straight to this part of the diff housing .

That's it for now