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I've been kicking around running an RC10Mid type chassis on carpet since the closest track to me is an indoor carpet setup. I went with Scr8p and had a pretty good time earlier this summer, but I converted a gold pan from clay to carpet and while it was fun and handled well, I wanted to build a dedicated car rather than converting back and forth(I hate building shocks).

I loved the cars that R16 has built and really loved checking out his builds here which gave me a few ideas:
https://www.rc10talk.com/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=42457

I found a very washed out GT tub for dirt cheap on ebay, and I had over the years collected quite a bunch of GT stuff looking for alternatives to rc10 bulkheads, arm mounts, etc, quite by accident. So I picked up a trans case and started to dig into a build.

first item was to make a motor plate, this is a rough cut from some scrap, I have to get some better pictures of this, plus the spacers to mount in the right position. It's since been cleaned up and made prettier. I also had to shorten the chassis, after some deliberation. I originally just added the extra nose plate hole, then after doing some measurements (and Scr8p reminded me) the car would really be kinda long. with the noseplate I have, i can adjust to long or short now, vs long and limo. studied a bunch of mid motor stuff and decided that a waterfall type brace makes the most sense, so again to the aluminum sheet stock, transferred from some mockup cardboard, bent and mounted with a machined lower bracket: chassis with re-re nose plate, b2/3/t3 steering parts with GT nose screws and waterfall brace: rear bulkhead with custom tower(plan is to run 1.02" rear shocks so a regular tower sise, but mounting pattern of the GT bulkhead), cut from mockup fiberglass, B5 wing mounts. This brings the tower down just a bit compared to an rc10 bulkhead/tower so the 1.02"'s align nicely. an early quick mock-up before I shortened the chassis: stay tuned for more........

Tuned...

Looking awesome so far!!!

That waterfall is, like, wow

Looks great! I am building a similar car, but on the blue plate GT chassis with RPM front arms. Its been on hold a while since I don't even get a chance to run my assembled race cars much, but I would like to finish it up eventually

Looks great, a Nitro DS chassis (when found) are shorter and drilled for buggy noseplates already. Found out the hard way myself...

any updates on this build ?

Some updates, my computer at home was acting wonky so only able to get them with another PC this morning...

Nothing exciting, just some more detail.

Added some updates.....

drilled some holes for servo mounting
pic of the trimmed chassis
some better pics of the motor plate and spacers. The small metal block takes the place of the motor mount+brake bracket underneath the trans and allows for another set of mounting holes.

now that the modifications are all finished, I can finally start building as usual. This will be standard team car geometry rc10 suspension, with front and rear sway bars.

Looking good!

My cold weather competition.

as long as I keep practicing

now it's starting to look like a buggy......

Yes sir it is. A true, one-of-a-kind, hand built masterpiece in the making.
So what's the rear bulkhead from? I don't recognize that one. Is it RPM or perhaps stock GT? Never owned a GT before so this new to me.

yes, stock GT.

the GT parts used are:
chassis-trimmed back
rear bumper(subject to change, sticks out pretty far)
trans case, diff assembly, idler
nose plate/bellcrank screws
rear bulkhead
rear trans brace
rear arm mounts

So, have you finished it?
Sorry, don't mean to be a nag but it's been a while since your last update.