Building an emaxx.... It's been a while

[jhautz]

So I decided I am building an emaxx to do some park running with my nephew and his new stock brushed emaxx. Nothing extreme. Just some easy 4s bashing on a mild setup. Probably a 1900kv buggy motor I have sitting arround here. So I am thinking I want to keep it kinda light.

I'm thinking I am going with a couple 2s 5600 packs I have, a 1900 tekin buggy motor I have, the mamba monster x, and a radiopost red servo I also have sitting here. The rcm chassis with 35mm extention, slipperential mounted in the rcm universal mount, rpm arms, badlands and proline wheels.

Now my question is with this fairly lightweight and mild setup I don't think the stock diffs in the aluminum 1 piece bulk will be a problem, but I was thinking I would also just use the stock plastic drive shafts. It's been quite a while since I messed with the traxxas stuff so I dont remember how durable the stock driveshafts were. What is the opinion on how they will hold up? I don't mind replacing them occasionally when they start to stretch at the joints. I remember them doing this in an old revo I had. A set of 4 from the eBay chop shops aren't too expensive.

I could spring for the traxxas cvd shafts at the wheels, but in the center I really don't feel like figuring out a custom bone setup. I was planning to just take some of the long stock plastic shafts and cut them to length to fit the custom size of the center drive with the 35mm extention and the center diff setup. So I guess I'm just looking for opioins on if the plastic shafts will hold up or if I should suck it up and figure out something more robust.