Hailing 8T 2.0 Drivers

Ok girls, I'm fixing to do another conversion and I've thought long and hard about which truggy to work off of and I'm fixing to go Losi for the first time. My decision came down to who I thought had the more robust diffs to take on the brushless abuse, parts cost, and which model looked to turn on a dime. The diff gears on the 2.0 appear to be straigth cut unlike all the other guys whith their sprial cut buggy gears. I don't like sprial cut diff gears. I find them all to be far too sensitive to shimming at 5s power levels.
So, I have come to all, requesting help.

Firstly, last call on any reason why I shouldn't go with the 8T? They don't seem too popular on this forum for conversions.

Secondly, for those who do favor such a path, I am trying to round up what I need to upgrade or be aware of. I've read this much so far:
1) Something makes them eat servos and it is either a servo saver spring that is way too strong, a servo saver spring's coils bottoms out on itself and doesn't compress enough to allow the servo saver to work, and/or the plastics used on the servo saver cam parts were binding together due to the wrong plastics being used at first. I have no idea what is right here but I found a definate trend around the web. The reccomendation was to swap in 1.0 servo saver gear.
2) Is there a Short vs Long throw steering arm option? What is this, what's the difference, and which way should I go?
3)What else should I know?

Thx all!