Once you add some brass and beadlocks, you'll start doing harder lines, which will toast the little brushed motors. Barrages last about twice as long as stock motors, but they're nothing compared to an outrunner. Considering how cheap barrages are though, it might be worth grabbing one as a...
Furitek is a gateway drug. There's no coming back from that...
Do the brass mods first. Your factory motor/esc will burn up soon enough. Then you'll go furitek and your rig will turn into a beast.
And I widened my front end to get it to drop over the servo better- helped lower my cg and improved uptravel
Focus on more uptravel. It'll keep you on your wheels in steeper terrain. I think the biggest challenge for these is how tippy they get.
All the free mods I've tried:
Lower your cg-...
They're a tight fit, but you can make them fit with a little razor knife love. Might need to use longer screws, but once you start messing around with moving shocks, battery trays, etc, you'll notice that you have some extra screws 😉
These little pink servos work great, too. I stole this one...
Free mods you can do now-ish:
Flip shocks and relocate to chassis rails
And pull the springs from the front shocks
If you're running enough weight down low, you won't need to do the battery relocate, but since you're not running brass yet, try something like this-
He goes kinda deep on his...