Since our boy did so well in pre school, and seems to be excelling, we decided to get him a "toy" he can grow into. Of course it's a bit much for him, but he has lots of practice on other RC toys. Here is a video we made when we bought the truck and were running it on 1500mah NiCd. We now run it on 2S 5000mah Lipo's. I'm not sure how long it will be until we torch the motor or ESC, but it flies now. Are there any drop-in motors or ESC's that could handle the increased current better, just in case we fry something?

Stock motor is an Arrma 550 Mega Brushed Motor (15T)

ARRMA Granite Monster Truck (1 min 37 sec)

first off the fact that your getting him interested early is awesome and it looks like he loves it and i love the stock bodies on these trucks