That is what I thought about them too: HPI's trucks all have their shocks mounted on the backside of the suspension arms, like the RC10GT, but all the bodies seem to have that area of the bed filled in. Many gas truck bodies have the humps for the rear shock tower in the middle of the bed, and the area where the shock tower is on an electric truck is much lower. The HPI bodies look like they will clear that OK, or maybe sit a little bit higher. I think the Ford, Chevy and Dodge bodies all look great, much better than the generic racing bodies from other companies.budhatrain wrote:I bought and purchased that same HPI lid for my 10T- and surprisingly enough it looks like it will mount up pretty good. I haven't done any painting or trim work on the body to finish but it will be real close and should look good!
My worry was the high rear shock towers and they look like they might clear within the "rear rollbar/toolbox" area and have a good flat spot to body mount.
Once again I am just eyeballing the best I can with a non-trimmed clear HPI body
You will need some new body posts, I like these ones from Duratrax (Parma offers the same ones):
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXD243&P=7
They come in 1.5" to 4.5" lengths.
