Lightning basic electric setup???

[nativepaul]

It looks like we have similar tastes, micro boats and bigger cars, Im in the planing stages for a lightning myself, a buggy tho not the truck.

I'm not worrying about weight on the buggy too much, I will probably run nimh or 10,000 too, there similar weight.
The weight will still hurt a cars acceleration but not nearly as much as a boat, it wont affect the top speed like weight on a boat will, as theres more to get moving but the drag stays the same as theres no increace of wetted area to slow you.