... and a pile of parts. This pile, and especially a Cougar 2 chassis that some previous owner had ruine... I mean improved by lightening it by drilling some massive holes into, and all this mid-motored crazyness of yesteryear, got me thinking... and then wildly acting upon these ideas.
From other projects I also had some spare spares: Traxxas Bandit forearms and hubs, Traxxas nitro 4-tec transmission and electric 4-tec ball-diff, Traxxas GTR shocks, 4x4 Slash battery holder, and some miscellaneous parts. I started to put these together and this pretty abomination was born. I have tried to keep the spirit of the Cougar 2: belt drive, angled front wishbones, telescope driveshafts and so on, but cannot stop to wonder: at witch point this stops being a Schumacher and I should post to the Traxxas subforum instead.
The buggy has a super low CoG and will have an option to run the motor in 4-positions (CCW, CW next to rear bulkhead, CCW and CW mid motored ala Schumacher KF), so I might be onto something here.
Next I need to cut an aluminium motor mount and brace, fix them to (and) the middle-bulkhead, a mount for the battery holder / top deck at the front, and a better fitting turnbuckles and ball studs. Not too much and I'm really looking forward in finishing this.
edit: 10/2017 Fixed the links, thanks Dropbox for breaking them.
edit: 1/2018 Added the images as attachments because some members were unable to see the photos.