Losi has the reputation for being a little tougher than AE. Some guys who switched from a XXX to a B4 recently were complaining about breaking stuff.

With either Losi or AE you can get help form local racers and online. Especially with the trucks.... there isn't really much difference at all in performance.

As for the track... we took out that whole tricky section after the triple jump. Now you can hit the triple and keep going straight pretty much. And the table top now keeps going into another table jump.

I think going with a nice (normal :) ) stock truck for racing is a good idea. I would recomend running the 3300 also. If you don't run standard nimh packs.... the setup will be all different. We have a really good class of novice and stock trucks here too so it's some good fun racing. Last week we had 10 novice and 10 stock truck...

Nice! That jump/corner after the triple is what killed me! Now, I can go full bore. :) Not really, but should be easier.

I might just give HH a call to see if they still have the Losi on the shelf and a replacement shock cap for my poor CRT.5. Man that thing is fun on the track!

Brian, not to get off topic, but where's the tread on your crt conversion?

The CRT.5? Um, right here.