can you fill me in on the plywood thing, because I dont have the magazine.

:grrrrrr:Thanks to this article my wife wont let me read any more magazines in Wal-Mart. Something about swearing and nitro. I really don't remember?:neutral::whistle:

The batteries and esc are mounted on plywood. Here's a link to the article.

http://www.rcuniverse.com/magazine/a...article_id=953

Wow...that article was disappointing to say the least...

They set up both cars identically to make sure they were equal - however, they used a setup which was tuned on a Nitro vehicle - so obviously it favors a nitro engine's power output. Had they simply thrown some thicker center diff oil in there, I'm sure the result would have been a bit different...

And 3S Lipo? LOL...I'm sure it was more like 6S. Not only that, but 2200's aren't the greatest packs to be using. Some FP3700's would give much more run time and probably be much faster...

I love how they basically said that even though the powerband is more linear and more controllable, because we can't simply mash it (only because we were too lazy to change the center diff oil), we think the nitro version is better...

I also think it would have been much different if they used mechanical brakes.

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