I bought this to compete against my friend's Axial AX10 Ridgecrest build. We both had 500$ to create the world's best trail truck. I bought some Hot Bodies "Rover" tires (the wheels are beadlocks), a Novak Terra Claw 35 turn motor, changed the gearing to 18/91, changed the plugs from tamiya to deans, put on the "soft" springs in the front with 1 height spacer on each side, in the rear Team Associated long green springs with 3 height spacers on the left, 1 on the right for torque twist, Modded the battery tray to take 2s LiPos, got a LiPo cutoff beeper, a Traxxas 2075 servo, and shimmed all of the diffs. The only problem with this car is that the driveshafts take set stews instead of pins to hold them to the diffs, which made them fall of ALL THE TIME. I CA glued them to the diffs and the problem ceased to exist. The ESC is really bogged down with 6 cell NiMh. I have ran this car through water, mud, grass, rocks, trails, trees, and downtown, and it preforms out of it's league every time. I put $250 into this and got a better truck than my friend's Ridgecrest. His car however did fall 200 feet down a cliff and didn't break or pull out any screws. What a lucky little kid....... :)