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Before the build begins, here's a little back story to this chassis. I messaged Ryan at UK Monsters about 12 months ago to ask if he'd got any plans for a carbon chassis for the Lunchbox, as I'd always liked his Clod chassis. He said that he had considered it but had no plans. Fast forward several months I bought something from him and again asked about a chassis. He said he would look at it. Over the next few months he kindly shared his progress with me and asked for some feedback. And, here we are. What a beauty. I'm so pleased to have this. I know I've recently built an “Ultimate” Lunchbox but that now has a Midnight Pumpkin body on that my Wife uses. So, he's my replacement. The chassis kit comes nicely boxed with all the parts in separate bags. The included manual has colour pics too. It's very easy to follow.  I'm starting this build with the transmission. This is just the kit plastic part.  Where the rear damper mount fixes to the transmission case, I've drilled all the way through and will use a nut and hex bolt to fix it. This will hopefully prevent the case stripping or splitting.  I have one of these left so it'll be going inside.  Plenty of AW grease.  UK Monster rear suspension brace kit.  Carbon wheelie bar kit. This fits the transmission really 'snugly'.  I also drilled through the case where the wheelie bar mounts and put a nut a hex bolt all the way through.  Onto the chassis build.  

The servo can be mounted as standard which uses the kit steering arms, OR like I have it down the centre. This allows the use of the same length steering arms for both sides. A nice feature.  Four aluminium braces stiffen up the chassis.  Some really nice CNC'd aluminium parts next. (I forgot to take pics of these installed).  Next is the transmission axle mounts.  Another well thought out part are these holes that allow a raised part on the kit plastic mounts to locate into. This keeps everything tight and square.  Another nice CNC'd part. This is the rear chassis brace that also incorporates two holes to mount the optional axle brace.  Front suspension arm mount is next.  V2 double wishbone suspension kit.  The V2 arms have a stainless bar through the mounting points to add strength.  Here you can see that the carbon upper link mount fits nicely into the recess of the aluminium front chassis brace.  

The rod ends I was waiting for arrived. The idea was to try to reuse the big bore dampers from my XV-02 (now that I converted it to RS spec) but they were a little too short. These rod ends should get the right length with the small sacrifice of a few millimetres of travel, which I don't think will hurt Lunchbox.  Here they are fitted.  And a test fit of one of my Lunchbox bodies. I'm not going to use this one. I'm painting up a Black Edition body for this build.  That's all for now. Electrics next.

Fantastic build!

I'm not a carbon crazy kind of guy, but as a big Lunchbox fan (own 4x LB and 2x MP), that chassis is on my want list for sure!