vg30_s12

Long story short I picked up a redcat earthquake 3.0 when I first got into rc's, motor is toast so I completely dissasembled the truck and tossed it into a bojangles box(hey its what I had at the time)
So I'm wondering what I should do with it? I kinda wana get it running but I sold all my other nitro stuff, so I've got nothing to run it with... I did find a local deal on a hpi firestorm that comes with nitro tools, rotostart and an os18 that I'm thinking about buying to yank the motor and throttle servo for the redcat... but I'm not sure if the os will fit...

I've had may thoughts on what to do, from rebuilding the SHit18 in it to trying to convert it to an 8e electric or go with a better motor, but also trying to keep costs down as I can buy a new in box earthquake for 200bucks...

What would be the best/cheapest option to get that redcat on the road? And before someone says toss it in the trash, everything barring the motor is in good shape, I feel like its a waste just sitting in that box... plus I want something to bash as I've got a slash and blitz mostly for racing... oh yeah, pissing the neighbors off I want it to do that too