I guess I'll put in our 2 cents worth. X Factory has been making a mid-motor Conversion Kit for the B4 for over three years now, and a Kit for the T4 for about a year. Just about every customer who buys one discovers he's 1/2 - 3/4 sec per lap faster, no matter what track or surface he's running on.

With the pendulum effect of the rear motor gone, the car carries much more speed in corners, is more stable over bumps, and much more agile in the air.

It takes a few packs to get used to because the driving style is closer to on-road than the "point and shoot" style we're all used to. You take a more natural racing line. Once you get used to it, the car is easy to drive and easy to drive fast, which are two different things.

We make a graphite molded chassis and our own tranny, plus our own rear suspension. You don't cobble anything together and "make stuff fit." You end up with a car that's perhaps of higher quality than the one you started with. Lots of CF stuff standard, the first car on the market designed specifically for LiPo. An experienced hobbiest can go from a running B4 to a running X - 6 Squared in about 2 1/2 hours.

We've won around 15 National Championships in the five years we've been in business, including the ROAR National Championship in '05 and at least 5 National Championships so far this year. We are 2009 National Champion in England, France, and The Netherlands (2 years running in all three), Czech Republic, Finland. Ellis Stafford, the U.K. Champion, TQed the Euros. Brian Kinwald, who has been driving for us over three years, makes the A everywhere, and just TQed the Arizona State Championship. Dan Griffin is the ROAR Region 5 Champion. Those who don't know how many cars we've sold or how successful they are have not been paying attention.

The 3-gear vs. 4-gear thing is long since proven. We converted to 4-Gear almost two years ago, and the cars are simply ballistic on every surface. There are a few places, mostly astro, where the 3-gear is as good as the 4-Gear, but that's all -- it's as good, not better. The 4-Gear absolutely rocks everyplace else.

We have all the forward traction you can ask for -- wheelies at will on loose outdoor tracks in Michigan. Speaking of Michigan, Mike Ciresi is the 2009 MORL Champion. Car must be good on loose dirt...