My new race car... and it's a V-8!

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All finished except for painting the body and the missing body post (on it's way from HB). Body post should be here tomorrow, and I will be painting the body tomorrow as well (hopefully).

Ended up trying an Orion Vortex VDS1409 servo; 14kg (195oz) @ .09sec. Local hobby shop gave me a great deal on it so I will give it a try. Weight is about 7.6 lbs... not too bad. Hb makes lots of light weight parts, so I could drop the weight some if I need to. The motor/battery side is less than 2oz. heavier than the other side. If I was running mech. brakes, it would probably be perfectly balanced. I will start with gearing at 1:1 rollout; about 33mph. This may be plenty fast enough for the small indoor track I will be running on. Also, since the Lehner motors are rated under load for kv values, I may be a bit faster.