This video was recorded on mine with the 3.3. Amazon and AMain both sell them for 109.99 less than what a 3.3 sells for. But honestly, I wholeheartedly recommend you cut your losses and put the Dynamite engine in the truck. Won't even charge ya for anything but shipping, as I have no use for it and it's just sitting in my part bin in a zip-loc bag. You'd just slip those three parts into your 3.3, tune for power, and off ya go. Piston/sleeve has about a gallon through it and it does have the Davis Diesel rod. The only parts no good on it are the main bearings. I'm actually not using mine if you're willing to toss me a couple bucks for shipping I'll mail you the entirety of my 3.3 for you to strip parts from as necessary. If you desperately want to keep the 3.3(Not recommended), Davis Diesel Products makes a hop-up con rod for these engines that actually is engineered and manufactured properly. M2C makes a kick-arse replacement 3-shoe unit with adjustable spring tension that bolts right in and is what I used on my Slayer Pro. I had the OE clutch fail on me twice in two weeks, both failures of the spring. While everything's apart, replace your clutch as well. It is designed to be a drop-in replacement and accepts the EZ-Start I put this engine in my Slayer Pro when the 3.3 in it failed. My advice to you? If they do warranty your engine, remove it, sell it, and install a Dynamite 19T 5-port. Sometimes they hold fine(And you get these guys swearing up and down the 3.3 is bulletproof), sometimes they pop during break-in through no fault of the user, sometimes they pop when trying to raise the nose during a jump, sometimes they just randomly pop 2-3 gallons into the life of the engine. The reason is the conrod in these engines is just not engineered or manufactured properly. Google 'TRX3.3 rod failure' and you get hits going back over ten years, a lot of the time being the same exact failure mode you experienced. Traxxas 2.5 and 3.3 conrods have been known failure points with these engines for decades. I can't speak to the chances of getting a warranty repair, but I can speak to why your engine failed.
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