RE: My Mini Quake's first run!!
I can attest to the boiling of parts. I boil all of my nylon/plastic parts, MQ included. We fortunately had a researcher/scientist on one forum (can't remember which forum) but he basically said that the nylon/plastic absorbs moisture naturally over time and that does make it more pliable and flexible. Boiling the parts accelerates the absorption of moisture into the parts. Something like that.
Anyways, it will help. This doesn't work on Graphite parts, and as far as I am concerned Duratrax's graphite parts suck. Between breaking the Pro Evaders graphite parts I have and my attempts at graphite knuckles on the MQ you will be better with the stock plastic parts and boiling.