[Cory]

I would say that's fine. I don't know how you'll be able to get an official ruling on that seeing as you're limited to 240 characters (or something like that), and FIRST seems to love being slightly ambiguous about answers.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the rule was made to make it as hard as possible for a team to build a modular robot, and what you're trying to do definitely isn't meant to be modular.