well, you could go to towerhobbies.com and buy a glow heater, to get it running you need batteries for the transmitter and reciever, you will also needfuel, and a screw driver to adjust the fuel misture, the buggy should off came with instruction buklet on how to tune your engine, just follow the instructions and you should be good, after you finished running the buggy, you need to after run oil it, this oil is sold at your LHS(local hobby shop), you take off your air filter, and take out the glow plug, put 4 drops in where the filter was and where the plug was, turn your engine over baout 10 times, then just put the plug back in and the filter, but when you put the oil in where the filter was, make sure you open it fully open, after you oiled close it back up