I thought I'd post up some pictures of my hyper 7 electric conversion. So far I've stripped the car down given it a good clean and installed the HV300 and some HB spiral R&P's. I also have a 1512 - 1800kv castle motor with blower fan, but I'm waiting on my RCMonster mount before I can install that. ESC and batteries are still to be decided along with new wheels and tires to replace the well worn out stockers.
I redrilled the holes for the transmission and machined a slot, about 10mm further back and 1/2" to the right. It should help the weight balance a bit and also give me more room for the batteries to sit on the chassis.
HV300 eh? Talk about overkill! I have the HV767 in my truggy and even that on 2S has torque and speed to spare. I have been really impressed by that servo.
I had it left over from my Super crawler, from before I switched too 7980s, but yeah definitely overkill I dislike RX packs so probably a CC bec pro so I can run it on 12v. Otherwise I've got a few spare standard CC becs I can set to 9v for the time being.
I don't think it will add much more stress, the dogbones are well within their rotation angle limits. I was thinking of getting centre CVs if needed, but we'll see. As for the body, it will fit but I have to rotate the motor so the wires are out the side. I hadn't even thought of that before you mentioned it