alright. my solidworks skills arent quite up to yodogs snuff but here is what im working on.
I want to maintain compatability with stock lipos which really doesnt give me any more room to move componentry around.
Basically, i want more room for mounting the lipo without having to cut up the car as we have had to.



this is a very rough block up of how i might do this. The battery hole will go away. ill leave slits for users to use strap tape, or lipo blocks which ive yet to look at.

the motor mount and layshaft mount will be replaced with new ones that will have an xray style so you can install/remove the motor vertically without removing any of the chassis parts.
under the motor and the new bulkheads the chassis will be hogged out to .5 mm in an even pattern in the middle to maintain the same amount of material left/right. the new motor mounts and motor will be suspended in this pocket by a center bulkhead and a set of crossbars whcih will mate to a new topdeck that connects in the middle.
there is also a new crossbar just under the layshaft to add strength.

i cant really imagine moving the steering. using exclusivly shorty lipos you could, but the front shaft really gets in the way. id have to move it backward and change out to different belts. the single bellcrank seems to work fine with enough bumpsteer spacers on the steering blocks.

definitely not a polished drawing, just wanted to sketch it out and see if everything would fit while still allowing adjustability.