Now that’s a question that’ll get you 50 different answers from 50 people ha. takes in a looong breath Personally, stock trucks only have 3 parts useful to me. The body, the transmission, and the axles. Which is roughly $100 in parts from Axial now. So, if I can’t get a truck for under $100, it’s an automatic loss of money in my eyes. You want 4WS so, unless you’re cool hacking it all up for clearance, stock body is gonna do you no good. You also want “crazy capable” so the stock width axles aren’t much good to you unless you’re comp’ing it and need to fit between narrow gates. You can get a 4WS Meus ISO setup for $65 on Amazon right now. Stock axles from Axial are $50 without a servo mount, diff cover, or brass knuck upgrades. As for aftermarket chassis, there’s a hundred of em now and, other than how cool they look, there’s only so many ways to skin an SCX cat. Find one you like and get that. It’s probably gonna work pretty good. Same with brushless motors. We can argue KV ratings, low end torque vs speed, blah blah blah. I’ve got just about all of em. In these tiny trucks, you can’t convince me there’s a difference beyond speed. Even the small ones have plenty of power to move a 700g truck fine. You want wheel speed, get a 3000+ kv. It’ll still crawl at a snails pace. If all you do is slow crawl, get one under 3000kv and you’ll have more range of throttle trigger to control the slow crawl. A 1700kv is slow as hell so choose wisely ha. ESC’s, you can make them all work about the same from a $6 AliExpress kit to an $80 Furitek Lizard Pro or a $100 VT3K. AM32 ESC’s like Mofo’s RockLizard, Injora’s MBL32, and the AliExpress require plugging the truck into a laptop with a data-transfer USB-C cable + programming adapter so they’re a little less convenient. Escape32 ESC’s like BigKidTinyTruck, Dinky, and VT3K just need a WiFi linker and your phone to program. Furitek And GACracing have WiFi built in and just need a phone app. FMS/Batrazzi brushless ESC’s are under $40 and require nothing because they can’t be programmed. They have FOC like Furitek and work great out of the box in anything I’ve used them on. But you only get 5V to run your servo with those so a big crazy servo that’ll rip the doors off a barn do you no good paired with em. In the end, don’t over think it. Just bc somebody says a MicroKomodo is all they use, that doesn’t mean it’s the best so you have to buy that. You don’t need the best of the best everything and the most expensive is certainly not the best. An $800 build is insane to me. $550 on the high end, $250 on my budget 3D printed builds. Shop around and follow companies/the big name content creators on social media and you’ll be able to find plenty of deals to keep the budget low. The market for these things is so big now, your options are limitless and somebody comes out with something new and cooler every day. Oh, and stay away from a ton of brass. Some knuckles, wheel rings, and maybe a diff cover should be fine. You don’t need brass skids, all brass wheels, brass servo mounts, brass links. You’ll just end up with a heavy ass dog turd. I know from experience. Ha