Yeah, I've had nitro cars before, HPI super nitro, Duracrap st, Kyosho assault(that really dates me!). Like I said in the last post, Too much power and your out of control half the time, Not enough and your constantly in the back or last. I could come in 2-3 place in the modified class back in the days with my rc10 team but as soon as I went to a stock class, it got real tough, you had to drive absoloutly perfect to be a contender. I will stick with the truck/engine combo until I get really familiar with the truck and then I'll upgrade the engine and go to the next level. I have to get some stuff as back-up parts and try to make the truck more durable. The funny thing is everybody gives their opinion on which to buy, but when we buy these trucks we end up replacing almost all the parts to hop-ups or after market. I kind of thought about that when choosing a truck, I figured that it didn't matter which one I got, because I was going to be modifying it any way, I just picked the one that needed the least amount of hop-ups to be competitive, and to top it off, it came with a pretty good TX. I fly with JR and the price tag on their stuff is hefty, but you get what you pay for, the only other company I've had good luck with is Hitec, I mainly use hitec for parkflying stuff. I'm going down to talk to dave at the LHS, he's going to give me his set-up on his xxx-nt, and I have to get some trinity fuel, but I playing it cautious for now on the mod's, I first have to learn how to walk before I plan on running with the squids. The safe way of modifying the truck is waiting until something breaks, then upgrade the weak point. I have a few digital and super torque servos laying around so I'm all set in the steering department but I want to pick up some bearings for the bell cranks. I wish somone made a graphite or carbon fiber chassis for this thing, that would be sweet, I guess I could buy a 3 or 4 mm sheet and have my buddy CNC it out for me to the stock chassis demensions. I'll have to check to see if it's legal to race it with a one-off and not a production chassis, I didn't see any thing in the rules about custom chassis but I'll read in depth a little more. Got to go now, see you guy's later.