Hey Swaybarz since you are sponsored by Xray maybe you can help me out here. I am looking into getting a Xray and I have been wondering what the difference is between the XB8R and EC as far as I can tell the EC has better shocks and different driveshafts and many more or better aluminum parts. But my main question is if there is any difference in the whole setup of the buggy, they look to have the same design just better parts on the EC. And what do you mean about the XB8R parts being hard to get. Any help is great.