Well, more info from the crawler guys:

raptorman57 - "IMHO,you're running the best ESC for crawling. Like John says to everyone.....Gear down,volt up. Thats how you make the outrunners work smoooooooth. Once you gear down,you'll see the problems go away. If your wheelspeed isn't where you want it,volt up to get it back.

I set all my Mamba's at 100% drag brake.

My start up power is on high.

You can also adjust the throttle and brake curve to fine tune it more to your likings."

JohnRobHolmes - "If you like to let off of the throttle and let it sit on inclines, put more drag brake in. They can get stuck into a downhill rolling mode if the geardown and voltage is too much to overcome."

Those were the most helpful ones, a couple people chimed in with the esc that I "should have got instead"......which doesn't do me any good anyway. I only used this MM esc because I wasn't using it in anything else and knew it'd be up to the abuse.

Travis, why? This one seems to have stupid torque even over geared, but is small enough that it's not hitting the Stealth tranny. Besides, doesn't that one have a 5mm shaft? It wasn't too hard to make the 4mm to 1/8" conversion, but 5mm to 1/8" would be a bit harder.....and I still think it's too big.