Ok, here are two preliminary and crappy pictures of the RC10 with the roll cage installed. The poject it's 80% finished, it still needs the roof panel, side guard braces, sail panels, under panels and the rear louver panel. All thos parts are going to be CAD and laser cut later on.
Basically the roll cage convertion consist of: main chassis with integrated side guards, upper roll cage and all the parts listed above which need to be done.
The battery pack which I am going to use and to which I calculated the lenght of the battery tray is for a Lipo hard case, ROAR approved. It fits nicely with about 1/16" front to back play.
The servo is right up front of the battery and protected by the number plate that is built into the upper cage.
The upper cage can be removed without disassembling the main chassis. The only thing needed to do is remove the rear shocks, the two screws on the front kick plate and two tie straps that hold tight the rear. I opted to hold the back of the cage with two large tie straps for the following reasons; ease of disassembly, is light and tough and in case of a frontal collition much of the energy will be absorbed by them.
The ESC is going to be located on top of the tranny, just beneath the louver panel
The receiver is going to be double taped to the shock tower.
Overall I am very pleased with it, is very light, looks cool and I do think is even stronger than the original chassis. It feels hard to the feel and when trying to torque the chassis it barely flexes, much less than the original. In resume it can be manhandled.
Well here it is enjoy!