[padailey]

Well it was the diffs... I just cleaned them up and rebuilt them and it ran awesome. Had my first race day with the "beast" on Sunday.... wow lots of fun and car worked quite well.

Temps..... I was a little unsure about this because just messing around my motor had hit 180 but hadn't run with my fans so I wasn't too worried but still not sure.
First Qual w/fans 6 min Motor - 175 ESC - 155.
Second Qual w/fans 6 min Motor - 165, ESC 150.
B Main no fans 10 min Motor - 160, ESC - 160. (Not sure why my fans wouldn't work but I think I might have had the wires connected backwards.) :(

Doesn't this show my gearing is pretty much right? I'm not concerned about going faster or slower it was about the same top end as any nitro I raced but quicker even with my buggy a little overweight.

I did manage to bump up to the A main. I was running Platinum 4800 lipos in series and was pretty sure I could make it the whole 15 minute main if I drove smooth and didn't crash too much. The mah I had been using per min was going down as I drove better... 1st qual 330mah/min, 2nd 280mah/min, B Main 260mah/min. But after the B I wasn't sure if I could get enough charge into the batteries. Well my chargers were only putting in .15A for a charge when I had to pull them off so they were nearly done. Started the A and about 5-6 minutes in someone pulled the plug on the computer... had to restart the race!! RATS!! Had been up to 5th at one point! Anyway I knew I couldn't make it another 15 minutes so I just took it easy hoping for some cars to have problems but no one did. The race director announced 20 secs left and I was about to cross the loop and I thought "woo hoo I'm gonna make it!" 5 seconds later the lipo cutoff kicked in!! lol

You Des Moines guys should get on over to Omaha and show the Nitro boys here the real potential of an electric 1\8 scale. I'm just a novelty show! lol