Newbie here, ?'s about what to buy.

[GorillaMaxx360]

unlimited engineering and mip should do for cvds, maby a g1 single speed conversion will help with the brushless, also a steel idler from rc monster and that should be all for the gears and transminsion. good batteries for bashing and reliability would be a123 batterys they are rekiable safe lipos and they charge up in 15 minutes. or you could go with some maxxamps 8000mah batteries which will give you 45 minutes of runtime of take 1.5 hour to charge but are not as safe for bashing. a good charger wold be the duratrax ice, but if you get the a123 batteries deal it comes with a charger in the combo.