98, You are thinking right and using that brain well. For the money, the Mojave can't be beat. You will get more reliability, performance, and just plain fun for your money out of a mojave than any other quad. You can get a better quad but it will cost much more. A 300ex even cost more than a mojave, and for what? It is not nearly as good or any more fun. With only a pipe and filter mods the mo will run quite well.