Gotta warn you Freezebyte, the HPI Baja forums are not as forgiving as some of these other forums you have been posting in, your little HPI Warranty antics would not go down well, and there is a great deal more maintenance involved than you had with the Savage. I wonder if you're actually capable of running a Baja without having a meltdown emotionally! That said, they are slower but are still a lot of fun, you get better by learning and wrenching so I'd suggest a 5BSS for you over a 5T. I can swap an engine out now in my Baja in around an hour (far quicker than I was!)
Just have a std RTR Baja but with deanodized chassis etc, and a CY26cc in there now (not a hpi CY)
And yes it's had it's share of carnage! (Old 23cc got hammered one day....)
