Just sharing a project I recently worked on, my simple take on a mid-motor RC10.
The history...
Like most of you, I was excited when AE re-released the Worlds car and a couple of buddies and I bought them with the intention to race them at our local races. The buggies were awesome and performed really well and even made the A-main on good days. Loved the performance but our track has some pretty big jumps and when we cased the jump there was a good chance we might land on the rear of the car and the rear cage would bend and often take the motor plate along with it. That would mess up the gear meshing and ruin spur gears and kill runs. After a bit I put the car aside with the intention of selling it. As it sometimes goes... procrastination pays off and I recently purchased a 3D printer... so I decided to see if I could revive my RC10 Worlds car as a mid-motor. With the huge amount of rear-grip the car generates, the hope is that a mid-motor version would not only improve the car's agility but still have a good measure of rear traction to make it shine.
I looked at the many wonderful projects here and decided that what I wanted to achieve was :
- retain as many stock parts as possible to keep the project simple - intention is to flip the gearbox around and re-use the rear bulkhead, arms, shock tower, etc. and not to have to cut a new chassis.
- design and 3D print a minimum number of parts to do this conversion.
- try to make it look clean, functional and factory where possible.
- maintain or improve the performance for track racing.

I'll post more info on the build process if anyone's interested, but here's just a quick picture of how version 1 turned out.

I printed 3 main parts for this project - a motor plate spacer to properly position the motor plate on the flip side of the gearbox, a waterfall brace to support the gearbox by connecting it to stock chassis holes, and finally the part I'm most proud of - a reverse gear cover to fit the stock motor plate.
More to come.
