not sure duratrax is kind of weak well not weak more like standard im not very familyer with megatech engines but there probably more powerful than duratrax his is barly bigger so he might beat you in take off by the way i got my aliminum shocks and dogbones for my st-15 so for the first time i got to run it with full bearings and tuned pipe oh i also bought some new rear tires the stock ones went bald the first day i had it running real good i got some proline dirt works tires awsome tires any way with those mods it hauled ass for the first time i could do welies with it my front yard has a slope to it i gunned it went down the slope lost traction landed on the road at full throttle it poped up and scraped some screws on the bottom of the chassis and sparks flew it was sweet but anyway do you think that the stock 18 in the evader is more powerful that that torq 16 you said your brother had in his.