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AAngel
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05.28.2007, 10:47 PM

I know that this is sacrilege, but I thought hard about doing a 1/5 scale electric, but the gas versions are pretty bad a$$. I went to electric with the 1/8 scale off road, because the nitros can't compete, it's cleaner, and easier.

The 1/5 scale gas cars are a different story though. You can get a nice two stroke engine for far less than the cost of an appropriate electric motor, esc, and the battery packs. The gas engine runs for a long time on a tank of gas and tuning them is easy and isn't a constant thing.

Besides, as Serum said, the torque of electric is going to be difficult to harness with a two wheel drive 1/5 scale. When we were messing with my buddy's Baja, we just added an after market pipe and tuned for it and getting it to hook up on anything loose was an exercise in futility. I couldn't have imagined trying to control an electric version. Of course, you could go with a mild electric setup, but then what's the point?

Just playing devil's advocate here guys.
   
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