The viper looks solid....I don't run solder tab motors due to my non soldering abilities but these days reverse engineering and change xx% and your legal....its a hard market for anything these days

I'm gonna get a Hyper TT and planned to equip it with a Tekin motor, but when the time come to motor shop I'll def consider these Viper mills especially if considerably cheaper ?

You can fix that pretty easily! It just takes a bit of practice, and having a decent iron can make or break the experience. Check some Youtube vids and practice up on some old or broken stuff. You're missing out on a lot of great motor choices if you exclude motors with solder tabs.

Not only that, soldering is fun and worth every cent of the self satisfaction you get doing everything yourself.

the soldering is easy, i am bad at it but Viper has a hole which makes it easy:)

i just order the VST-3.5 motor for my 10th scale can't wait till it gets here

for sure let us know how it performs and your over all impression

i will do that

Man, they really need to release the 1/8 motors. I won't be able to get out and run one for a little while yet, but I want to have one in my hands so as soon as the weather clears I'll be ready!

just and update got to run my viper rc motor and i loved it i was able to get 55mph out of my setup after 4 or 5 high speed runs i the motor was warm to the touch so i think i got room to really push ....btw the ground was very dusty with traction compound i sure a would have hit 60mph easily...my current setup is a viper 3.5 vst motor 30 tooth pinon and tooth 72 spur 2s lipo 5000mah 40c gen aces pack looking to go to 35 tooth pinon and a 66 tooth spur on a 3s

Anyone hear any updates on the release date of their 1/8 motors?

Nope, but I'm still waiting as well. I want to try the cheat mode on 4s with one. Works with the Tekin 1/8 motor.

yes i called and talked to them on Monday 7th and was told that they are looking at may 2011 and should be on par with castle from 1400 kv to 2650 kv

I'm thinking you meant to say on par with Tekin. Castle has a limited amount of kv options.

yeah you right