Well if whoever read about my Brama 10b running a 8.5t brushless disaster, might have read I decided to make the Bramas chassis out or aluminum. But unfortunately that didn't pan out, seeing I couldn't locate a metal gear that would fit in the differential to use. I contacted HPI and they pretty much said I'm SOL on the gear and there are none that will fit. So I gave up on trying to make a stock looking Brama which lead me into my next project
I'm making a frankenbuggy that would make Dr. Frankenstein proud

so far heres the parts list (quite a few borowed from my brama build)

Diffs, diff casings off of a HPI MT, along with the hubs they sit in. Had to modify the driveshaft cup to accept the aluminum Brama drive shafts. Also the shocks, and servo saver are from a MT1.
Motor mount off of an E10
Spur gear assembly off of my Brama along with most of the radio tray, C-hubs, rear hubs, battery holder, and the aluminum drive shafts
Arms are from a Tamiya DF-02 (no not my DF-02 ordered a new set for this), steering knuckles will be aluminum ones off a DF-02 also.
Front shock tower I have no idea what its from all I know its the rear shock tower off some HPI RC (either firestorm or some Nitro RS4 bought a few different part tres while making some custom mounts awhile back)
Front bumper Ordered a RPM bumper meant for a Bandit/pede. Will see if it will fit with some slight modifications.
Wing and wing mount I'm not sure yet, I'm thinking of making the brama mount work by shimming it some to make it ount right on my rear shock tower.


I already made the proto type out of a cardboard box (pics below) and found 1 slight issue. I'm going to have to lengthen the chassis by 2mm's right after the battery compartment's front leg. Other than that everything so far fits perfect for a 1st try, its actually kind of shocking how the Diff mount screws lined up perfectly centered seeing I eyeballed it on the 1st mock up . Only time will tell on the final version that I cut out of aluminum (the prototype is sitting on the aluminum sheet that will be its chassis ). Its going to be around 5mm's longer than a DF-02 it seems in the end

Didn't put the arms on due to having to order the mounting screws, but they do fit and I had them hooked on with a pin I borrowed off another RC for a little while to test them. To make them fit the HPI diff hub I had to dremel about .5MM off the hub.