Mikes RC8 is really sweet. Just about as clean of a conversion as they get. I don't think AE could have done it better. Fast and it handles great. Saw it running when he was in Chicago for iHobby.
(BTW Mike, Did you ever get that pinion set screw sorted out?) I was glad to see that even the master builders run into the dreaded pinion set screw problems once in a while.