You'll hear a variety of positions on this including those that feel the vehicle needs nothing and is the greatest thing since slice bread. You have to sort through that and believe what you want to believe. The way I personally look at it is if you keep getting different people in different areas reportin similar issues on similar conditions, they aren't all just teaming up and lying.

In my personal opinion, the first thing you should identify with the SC10 4x4 is what conditions do you plan to run it in.

It excels at indoor 1/10 oriented conditions, but in stock form is not as good on loose big jump conditions like found on 1/8 sized tracks like its competitor, the losi SCTE, which, considering the platform for the losi SCTE has a variety described by losi itself as a 1/8 buggy, not surprised.

In those situations, it benefits from a variety of parts. You can do some of the mods on the cheap versus others and get very good results.

It also has interesting in air handling characteristics that depending on where you are coming from RC wise, you may need to adjust your jumping "style" when using the vehicle. I find that for me with how my vehicle is setup, I prefer to punch it on the face of the jump. This usually has it jump for me at least slightly nose up which during flight it either levels off mid air then slightly nose down, or, if its still up, I can pin the brake to drop the front end. I can't however save it if its coming off nose down, it's pretty much is a lost cause at that point. Before with a lot of vehicles, I would just run it up over the jump and could control it mid air with throttle or brake inputs.

Durability wise, Its a highly durable truck in my opinion after you do the diff shim mod. I have been quite happy with that aspect of the vehicle. I beat it up pretty good last night on an indoor area that had a massive jump landing on a very thin carpet over concrete in a small shopping mall. Pretty much clearing the landing jump repeatedly and nothing broke in comparison to all the buggies in attendance for this bash fest. Nose dives, tail landing, upside down landings that beat the body up hard and a couple of jumps into the landing area as well as several into a trash can in from of a pillar, hitting the pillar lol, still all good.

As a side note, the RC Shox center diff provided extreme punch as well, with little run up could punch over the large jump expanse, just for those curious if the center diff can be used on carpet / high traction conditions. 8 pins right now, excellent performance.

M2C block setting of 2.75 degrees toe in gave quick direction changes that I liked on the high traction surface while still being controllable all around the track. I may try the next heaviest sway bar on the rear and see how it goes, but the truck feels pretty much dialed right now.