XT8 Update

[Sower]

Thanks for the kind words guys!

About the mud guard, yes it is something I came up with. Basically it's a solid piece of plastic that is held on by the two front bolts on the side mud guards. It sandwiches between them. Then there are velcro strips to form it to the side mud guards. The plastic has a small slit going up to the servo arm so it can slide down as one large piece.

On the battery tray, I attached the battery to the CF with some very heavy duty double sided tape. The battery is then held down by a couple 1/4" aluminum posts that I threaded to accept a 8/32 counter sunk screw from the bottom of the chassis. It seems extremely stout. As you'll notice, the bottom CF strip is not covering the whole battery in order to drop the COG as much as possible. With 1/8" CF, the battery rests almost perfectly flush to the mud guard. Then I have a piece of the fuzzy part of velcro on the bottom of the CF for cushioning.