[lincpimp]

First setup in the roller is a novak 13.5. It is the ribbed can version with the sintered rotor. Kv is 3300, according to novak's website. That must be unloaded, from my seat-of-the-pants meter.

First off it cogged badly with the stock sidewinder settings. I played around and almost cured it. Ended up with the punch control disabled, timing all the way up, and high start power. I have a feeling that with the 58/13 gearing I ran it was overgeared, as it lacked power and torque. The motor would most likely be better suited with 4s lipo, or in a lighter vehicle on 3s. Performace was not as good as the baseline, however temps and runtime was incredible. After about 20mins it pulled about 1700mah from the neu lipo. The motor was warm, and the sidewinder's temps had not changed.

Top speed was lower than the baseline. My main impression was that the motor did not like the gearing. I did directly solder the motor to the esc and that helped a bit with startup cogging. Just not enough power from the novak for me.