Uh oh......decided to get my T2 going again!

I got it about a year ago as a roller for $30, slapped some Lunsford goodies on it, dropped my Lehner 5300/7018 system in and had lots of fun with it. A couple months ago I decided I'd try and run my Ofna's Lehner 2800xl in it and would need 32p gears for that to work, didn't have the right ones to make it work, pulled off the front springs to go on another car, and abandoned the poor T2 in the garage......

.....until today! Bolted in the old Lehner system, charged up a Sanyo 3600 7 cell..........and no throttle response. Looked at the 7018 a bit closer, saw that a capacitor had broken off, resoldered it (yes, the RIGHT way, MetalMan :D ), and still nothing. Pulled off the red jumper to try and reprogram, thing was DOA the second it hit the work bench I guess, so I ditched it to just go with a quick brushed setup to get it going. Pulled the Super Rooster out of my crawler Clod, grabbed a donor Speed Gems 2 "Opal" 10x3, and put it all together. Bench revved it a few times, everything looks good, let's try it out in the street.

Ran decent, wasn't hitting full rpm, thought it might be from the cells not being run in a while........until "it" happened. Was running it around for another few minutes with the body off, came out of a turn, pulled full throttle, and saw a massive spark from the motor, followed by smoke. I ran over, and couldn't believe what I saw: melted motor! I guess it was undergeared, with crapola brushes, and a super messed up comm, and it just heated up.....a lot, enough to melt the solder on the wires!

So, left that out in the garage to cool off and stop smoking, ate dinner, then dropped my Orion Method R 19x2 in and went out to finish off the 3600 pack. Amazing how well something works when it's not crud! Got great speed, fairly hard acceleration, but it'd loop out in turns..........oh well, better tires would fix that. Anyway, once the 3600 died, I got to use the pack I was really looking forward to, my brand new IB4200, for the first time. Seemed to have almost the same performance of the 7 cell, and I got a solid 15 minutes from just the first charge.......and none of the electronics even got hotter than warm!

Pics coming tomorrow!