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the main advantage of the pivot ball system for me was the strength of it, the standard kit likes to bend the turnbuckle on the top arm.

captured rod ends an a little grinding on the front diff cases gives you some more steering a stops the balls popping off

I heard the rcmonster kit is nice but never tried one, i just cut the standard battery tray to allow me to lie the lipos on their side. plenty of room behind tray for a novak or rx8.

have a friend who ran the snr graphite chassis along with losi bigbores an loved it, i tried hyper 9 shocks on mine but they were just toooooo big. losi an hb seemed to be the shocks of choice or you can mount a set of rears on the front when you use one of the many extened tower choices, i choose snr