I recently got back into RC's and it escalated pretty fast. I now have 21 RC's. 9 of which are E-Maxx's and since I have converted them all to brushless and started upgrading all of them for different purposes. The current one I snapped in two, so I thought I'd see how I could fix it. So since I have 30 years of building 4x4's under my belt, I went to it. I started off with a frame skeleton that I acquired off Facebook's Marketplace, in an RC lot. I started with splitting the skeleton in two and made some rods to connect the two halves together. So I got out my tap and die set and made those to accept some nuts. Then I just started reinforcing the tub with the skeleton, and tying everything together for much more support. I think it was kind of dumb for the engineers to have that much weight hanging off the tub and only had 4 little screws holding it on the tub. So I tied the skeleton into the tub with screws and nuts, then tied the top into the shocks and body mount and then tied that together from side to side. I put the tires on and dropped it from 5 ft and it lands nicely and with my hands, I can't move anything. So it is seriously strong now. I'm building this one for some serious speed, so I mounted a new Spektrum 3900kv brushless motor with a Spektrum 100amp brushless ESC. I rebuilt the transmission with all steel gears. The axle shafts, drive lines and the intermediate shaft are all steel as well. I don't know how fast it's going, but it'll cover an acre in seconds. So I'm pretty happy with how it all is turning out. I still need to find the perfect body for it. I have several Slash bodies that I'm thinking about painting and modifying them to fit the E-Maxx.