[Chris Doughty]

Tony, thanks for the feedback.

I'll not reply to everything individually as I know I will end up spending all day on here playing forum tennis with everyone. but here are a few points.

the c-clip thing - the single biggest thing with this is over-crimping the clip - this is very bad. the orientation of the clip and small details like this can slightly help to compensate for this so our build guide and tech tip mentions this to ensure the best chance of it working well.
if you use the correct c-clip pliers and very very careful to not over-crimp the clip, It will work with the clip both ways round.

The body does not need to be used with the cowls, you can simply cut out your rear section for your motor plate.
The reason we went with the option for the cowls is that you can use a single painted body with ALL configurations, when you change to rear-motor (for example oOple race) you use the same body, just with the rear motor cowl, no hole in your body for where your motor plate would be...
also, no Ugly bulges to cover the motor plates.

Darkness of the diagrams in the manuals, I understand, we will work to make sure that the diagrams of multiple plastic parts aren't too dark in future manuals.