[Ryu James]

i think so. at first the one thing i like better about the castle design is the long motor leads so i dont have to solder extra bullets to reach my esc. but then if found out those motor leads arent actually the copper wind wire. it is just 10awg wire soldered to the motor leads inside the can. so its not much different than a Neu or Tekno neu where you have to solder bullets, other than it saves you a little time. but i have tested the castle motor and seems very good. it stayed extremely cool. never broke like 90*. it seems like they have been selling like crazy. i would bet that 80% of current Neu motor purchases for conversions are going to the Castle motors. they are cheaper for the essentially the same thing.

there is one thing i noticed on my castle though that i didnt think was a good thing; i could move the shaft in and out about 2mm. so it hadnt been properly shimmed and the rotor was able to move back and forth inside the can. i tried this on all my other tekno neus and they did not even move a fraction of a hair. so i dont know how detrimental that could be but i thought that was something that should not be there.

as for the square cans i was able to mount mine to my RCM RC8t conversion with the center diff motor mount no problem but they are more ideally mounted to the tekno style chassis mount.