Well thanks everyone for the responses. Im working on a friends car and its rather time consuming and at times a little frustrating. So with that being the case I decided to buy new. I bought a new savage x 4.6 today from tower hobbies should be here wednesday or thursday. I like tinkering but still being a noob and not always knowing what has been done to the engine beforehand, I dont want to get something Im gonna have to dump more money into right away. I had a tight budget so with tower hobbies 20$ off it put me right around my budget. Ive had a hard time choose which to get but I love the look of the truck and have heard great things about them. Ill be sure to keep everyone posted on how it goes.