I've been chatting with ron_van_sommeren and jdetray on RCU and they gave me a ton of good imformation -
http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/m_17...tm.htm#9200941
My heart is pretty much set on getting some wire locally, probably 22 gauge, and terminating in a star config. That should give me hopefully around 1000-1500kv. That's a solid 20mph on 2s lipo which should be very controllable. Also the power and efficiency should be way up lenghthening runtimes and hopefully improving startup.
Next time I take it trip into town I'll stop by radio shack or similar and pick up some magnet wire. I was going to go with gobrushless.com, but I figured it would be easier and faster to buy locally..