Hi everyone new to the forum. I planning on getting a savage but torn between the savage x rtr or the x ss. and can someone direct me to a site that carries hop up parts for them.

I have both and the xss has all the heavy duty parts on it as far as upgrades I would stick with mostly stock maybe upgrade to a three speed trans and upgrade to alum shocks and maybe diffrent tires thats if you dont like the dirtbones.

so the xss is better?

Yes, and it should be too, they're virtualy the same price, except one has a full radio set and servos.

Hold out for the new X 4.6 RTR if you DO decide to go the RTR route. has aluminum diff cups and a bigger engine and better brakes out of the box.

If, however, you're not too worried about the price of the initial plunge and honestly want what's better, get the X SS, drop some coin on a decent radio ($150 should do it in most cases), a decent charger, steering servo, etc etc and so forth. You'll be 100x happier in the long run, because you won't be upgrading the RTR to parts that you would've gotten in the first place with the X SS (like the HD dogbones, dual disk brakes and such)

www.towerhobbies.com

www.horizonhobby.com

www.smf.com

Pretty much any site that sells RC stuff sells savage parts its a very popular truck.

does anyone know when the 4.6 rtr will be out and the cost of it? i saw it on the hpi site.