My e-revo brushless edition build

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My son's name is Gabriel. So Gabriel's ERBE will be named ''GERBE''

So I started work on GERBE a week ago and basically broke down the build into 5 phases.

Phase 1: Rear end assembled and mounted on chassis.
Phase 2: Front end assembled and mounted on chassis
Phase 3: Tranny, Motor, Slipper mounted on chassis.
Phase 4: Electronics (ESC, servo, receiver, receiver box) mounted on chassis.
Phase 5: Finalizing odds and ends and painting a body.

I got done with phase 3 today. This will be a full blown basher at the lowest speed possible. Spool in the middle, no CD there. High ride height, no sway bars. Turnigy 2S2P LiFe batteries, 68 spur, 17 pinion. The settings of the ESC will be very mild. The speed calculator says a little over 23 mph. I think it is still too fast for a five year old so I will set the transmitter's throttle down to maybe 60%. I'm looking for 15/16 mph. Maybe even less. If a ten pound truck traveling at 15 mph hour hits my boy in the legs, it will hurt but I don't think it will break bones. It could be very dangerous for him if the truck was coming at 40 mph.
For the body, I still don't know what I'll get him. I thought of the Proline Baja Bug but the rear end is weak. Maybe a Proline Slipstream. Or I thought that for a little boy, a real truck body would be cool and he would like it, like the Proline Ford F650 body.

Here's pics of the progress. Nothing new really, it's just a GERBE