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Hi,
I am looking for an alternative body for the Traxxas Nitro Buggy. The Original has an cage around it. Does anyone know a body which fits nicely around the outlines of this chassis? I looked at the bandit body, but I am not sure, has anybody tried this?

bandit is not very close for shock towers or pan alignment. I just get a tbg body when I want one to get covered. I've made cages out of the kyosho scorpion roof/cage assy.

Otherwise I really haven't seen anything remotely close to forming to the nitro buggy pan besides an equally harder to find body as the Duratrax Nitro Max BX which required a boatload of cutting outside of the lines.

Todd

I wonder if a protech 4 would fit from a yokomo 870c. Has a pretty wide taper, the motor area has space where a nitro would sit. I can take some measurements on a repop I have

thanks for the options. This is the car I built: It is converted to a electric car, just as stickboy007 started on in one of his videos. I took it apart again because I wanted to use some of the parts on another build. It did not perform really well. The rear had a lot of flex where the electro motor is mounted.

I did try a trx-3 body, but this was to slim and would need to be mounted really far forward. This would result in a gap between the rear schock tower and the cab of the body. I did not like this.

Yes you would need some extra bracing somehow. And looking at the chassis and your setup, the protech iv would have probably worked nicely.

Spintec..... Haven't seen that name in a while ....

I wonder if a TRX-1 body would fit? Lots of gratuitous width with that one but it gets fairly shallow pretty quickly away from centerline.


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ok, a protech iV body is approximately 5.8 inches wide at the belly. That is for about 4 inches of length.

the body then tapers from 5.8" down to 2" wide in a distance of 3.3"

TRX-1-3 wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 10:22 am I wonder if a TRX-1 body would fit? Lots of gratuitous width with that one but it gets fairly shallow pretty quickly away from centerline.


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Thank you, I have looked at this body before, but I don't think this will fit over the pan sides of the chassis.

jwscab wrote: ↑Tue Apr 21, 2020 12:09 pm ok, a protech iV body is approximately 5.8 inches wide at the belly. That is for about 4 inches of length.

the body then tapers from 5.8" down to 2" wide in a distance of 3.3"

I will measure the chassis to see if this would fit. However, I don't think it would look appropriate to put a 4wd yokomo body on a 2wd traxxas .
An other option I have thought about is the Schumacher top cat body. Looks quite the same to me...

I did this to my Bandit:





Maybe you can do something similar, it is a nice and roomy body It is a shell from Kamtec.

Of course that's a trx1 body on same chassis for comparison. Body could go down in front but hits the tub sides already.

I lost the post but the yokomo yz10 bodies are doable with some creative trimmings...