dont dump a ton into it. Just replace what you break and wear out. run the thing until it dies and then get a FT car. Look at it this way, you will spend the first couple months bashing your car because you arent landing jumps right or cant control wheel spin etc etc..... at least that means if you do it all winter, in the summer you get a FT car that will be fresh and you will already know how to set it up and how it will react. Then you keep the other car as a basher or you sell it to a guy who needs something for his kid to run in the novice class