Just thought I'd update how things went yesterday at the track...the E-CRT is amazing. I'd say I shaved 2 seconds off my lap times...went from 23s & 24s to 21s & 22s...My gearing however was WAY off. It was far too fast and it caused me to go into thermal shut down EVERY single race. Amazingly I was so blazing fast while running that I still won them all anyway! (it was a very light day at the track...if the usual guys were there I doubt I could stop for 15 -20 seconds and still win) Anyway I'm off to the RC-Monster store to purchase some tiny pinions and hopefully go a full 5 mins without thermalling...We don't run with the Nitro Truggies but my lap times were better than ALL but one of them (the track owner - who is an amzaing racer). We have an AMB which estimates your finish time, and before the thermal I was on a 14 lap pace, only one truggy got to a 14 lap pace. All in all I'd say it's totally competitive with Nitro for the 5 mins...

FWIW, the 14 tooth modified clutch bell pinion I used survived the spur...I'm hopeful that the hardend pinions Mike has will stand up to the abuse - at least for 5-7 race days...if I can get that much life out of one, I'd be very happy.

DM