Hi guys!!

I have an old Traxxas T-Maxx that I've converted to electric drive, I've stuck with the old aluminum chassis and just making that work with the electric conversion since I had an idea stuck in my haed all along that I would want to make a chassis of my own and now is the time.

Last sunday the car ended up looking like this



And now is a good time to start thinking of making a chassis better dedicated for the electric conversion. I'm going back and forth in my head batteling whether I should make it out of carbon fiber or aluminum and I thought that I better ask someone else for advice.

What worries me about carbon fiber are two things. How will it stand up for wear and what happens if I land the truck wrong.

Starting with the second question, if I decide to go with carbom fiber I will buy a 3mm carbon fiber plate (prepreg) and simply cut it into the size and shape I need. How will that cope with a hard hit? Lets say I jump at speed and land on something that hits the side of the truck, how much force will carbon fiber sustain??

And second, the first question, since it's a monster truck it rides quite high, meaning that it doesent really drag the chassis on the ground that much but it kick up a lot of dirt, gravel and rocks underneath the chassis. The old chassis looked like this after a while



Note that the aluminum chassis are not the reason for the truck braking, thats caused by bad shockabsorbers that ment that a bad landing on the rear broke the rear skidplate and then another bad landing caused the truck to become two

Hope I'm not confusing you too much and that you can help giving me advice about this.

I do have an idea of making 1mm aluminum plates to mount underneath the carbon fiber chassis to make it more bash resistant. If anyone else have any other ideas or advices please share them with me =)