After the initial problem my battery read 0v at the connector like yours and the balance was fine. I opened it up and the lead at the negative was fried. I cleaned a little solder up and did a little sanding. They have an extra tab at each lead so I just soldered that one on. And soldered the old tab to the new one. After I was finished the battery was reading about 23.6v at the leads. After it started on fire I checked it over again all the tabs look good and it is still reading 23.6v. As long as I'm not doing anything wrong I'm sure I'll get this working eventually.

I didn't use the kit from Losi. I used a pinion adapter, one speed hub and motor mount from TD Racing. I had New Era make me a custom roll bar that would let a battery tray fit up front. Then Mike was kind enought to make me a standard 150mmx50mm tray, but with a flat bottom. :D I had to mod the tray a little for the roll bar, but it fits about perfect between the tranny and radio box. I have a RCM 26T and 30T pinion to start with. Running the stock 63T spur. In the tranny are the new gears from the Losi BL conversion, 27/17 I think. ESC is mounted in back where the fuel tank was. I did a bunch of other little things, but I think the only other one that might be of interest as far as BL conversion goes is the HD diff cups.

I was going for a clean build that kept the weight up front and would hold up to abuse. As soon as I get this ESC thing iron out I think I'll be set.