Moving on to the front of the truck, this cover hides the servo and receiver

The receiver is held in with a plastic strap

We also disassemble the front bumper at this point

Also remove the screws through the front suspension mounts

The steering posts also come out

This plastic brace serves as the front attachment point for the hinge pins for the front arms

I had to pry it a little to get it off

detach the front shock tower via the four screws

To start assembling it for the new chassis, we’ll need ECX1029

The Torment steering posts fit right into the ECX Circuit top plate

Here is the completed steering rack

The front hinge pin bracket from the ECX Boost pops right on the bottom

The servo mounts also need to come from the ECX Boost or ECX Circuit

They get screwed in from the bottom of the chassis

The top plate gets attached to the chassis with a couple of screws

In order to reuse the front bumper, we needed to reuse this gray plastic brace. However you can see it isn’t a match for the Circuit chassis.

I trimmed it down so that the rear half of the brace was removed.

The two center screws attach the chassis to the top plate

Then the bumper brace will use the 4 remaining holes

Xtreme sent along their new ECX Torment fiberglass front shock tower, and it uses the stock screw locations

Next issue I ran into. The upper bumper mount won’t fit in the gap in the shock tower, so I needed to trim it down

The front body mount gets screwed into the new front shock tower

The front hinge pins go in, and the front arms get hung

Once both hinge pins are on, we put the plastic hinge pin brace back in

This plastic cover holds the pins from sliding out

These white plastic collars are used as standoffs for the front shocks

Both shocks are attached to the new shock tower

In order to attach the front camber links, I needed to find some screws and some nuts to through bolt them.

Here’s the front end thus far

When I tried installing the front bumper, I found that the angle of the plastic was interfered with by the bottom of the chassis

At the furthest we could move the bumper, the upper mount was still an inch or more away from the bumper

My solution was some longer screws, and locknuts, essentially extending the upper bumper mount

When the bumper is hit, the upper mount compresses, just like stock, showing the design should hold up to abuse.

Xtreme RC sent us a fiberglass battery strap, which uses the stock hold down T Nuts. We’ll move those to the new chassis now.

I mounted the ESC on top of the new extension plate

Using some double sided servo tape, I installed the receiver in the bottom of the chassis