brushless 1/5 4wd conversion about to begin! couple questions.

[Ryu James]

so here it is RTR minus the disc brakes and mudguards...and body obviously. i need to finish a couple of other things like shorten the motor leads and also make an aluminum servo holder as the stock plastic one sucks. anyway, i finished up drawing the hubs needed to mount the disc brakes last week and my machinist swore he would get them done this week so i should have brakes mounted by end of week. other than that it should be good to go but i cant get the damn esc to turn on and not sure why. i was only able to hook up a 5s so i will try again with actually hooking up 10s later today. i hope i didnt get a bunk esc that was $400. seriously!!? i am hoping it requires 6s or higher and that is why it hasnt worked. any thoughts out there?

anyway, here are a few pics RTR. weight is....um, not sure. i know it is more than 22lb cuz my digi scale maxes out at 22lb and gives me error when i try to weight it. its not much more than that though cuz right at 22lb i am just barely holding it. if i recall i weighed all the parts separately before assembling and got a total of 25lb. based on what my scale says i would guess that 25lb is about right. i cant believe yours is 38lb. 13lb difference is substantial.

oh, and my gearing right now is 15/40 but the rc calc puts it at like 70mph so i will most likely be running my 12t pinion, which is the smallest one i have. the 12/40 setup puts it at 54mph which is more in the range of what i am after and plenty fast for me.