This brings back memories, I got a blue one last year and removed the motor and esc the day it arrived, replaced it with a Carson 12t brushless combo and kept the truck standard.
I used to show people how strong this truck was, by driving it full speed into various stationary objects and watching it bounce off and keep going.
This truck has replaced my Hyper 7 as indestructible. I even went as far as to drive it off the top of a quarry at full speed. It fell 147ft to the quarry floor smashing the body, both front shocks and the lipo fell out, yet it drove off dragging the lipo behind it.