Oh.. and I ran the 30 minute main... should have been almost 32 minutes total track time. The 8000pack charged back 5440mah... 170mah per minute.

I wish I could always count on that! The 5000mah pack just might have done it if I skipped the warm up laps!!!!

I should have run the 5000 pack.... the car would have handled better too so maybe I would have done better.

One last thing:

With the 8000mah pack it weighs about 2oz. more than my buddy's nitro 8ight full of fuel. He also has a heavier body... probably a good 2oz more than the stock one.

With the 5000mah pack it only weighs 7lbs 3.6oz... a full half pound less than the nitro.

I did see another guy on rctech say his (nitro) 8ight weighs 7lbs 3.3 oz wihtout fuel (would be @7lbs 7.5oz. with full tank).

The 8ight is so light, some guys are putting lead weight in the rear... but it's cool to have an BL that weighs less than a nitro and can run almost 30 min.

glassdoctor,

Could you give us any more information about your setup, other than what's in your signature. I'm just getting into the world of BL conversion, and I like to see as many examples as I can, in as much detail as possible, of good conversions. Also, could you post some recent photos, or point us to some that are already online?

Thanks again for your patience.

http://www.rc-monster.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5572

start there.... plenty of stuff to look at....

By the way, glassdoctor, would you recommend the Mamba Max/New 1512 combination? I'm thinking I'll probably use a 1512 on my buggy project.

Oh, I see you just replied to my previous query. Thanks.

Hmmm.. that's a big topic here... the MM and Neu combo.

I'm doing it... but it's tough to recomend it due to the potential cogging problems.

EDIT: I did just take the MM out of the CRT and put in a 125b... which seems buttery smooth.

With the motor wires direct soldered, I'm having pretty good results. But there is still a bit of cogging occasionally. So far it's not bad and I could recomend it if the other advantages outweigh this flaw.

But I'm concerned that a bad episode of cogging could ruin a MM. That happened to me recently. (before removing the 4mm connectors and hardwiring it)

IF Castle comes through with a software update to fix it... then I will absolutely recomend this setup to everyone!

BTW, I have heard from more than one person that the MM works awesome with a Pletty Maximum... zero cogging so they say. So i have faith that CC can fix this issue.