captain harlock,

Believe me when I say that I am no brushless expert, but I can make some comments based on experiences and observations that I've made while experimenting with the Mamba Max 7700 system.

What I've found is that the batteries play a BIG part in performance. If you want that car to do 60, just make sure that you go with a good pack that can deliver the amps and go light. I'm using the maxamps 4Ah packs and they do deliver a good punch and are light at about one third to one half the weight of a nimh 6 cell pack. When I first got my 7700 system, I was running it in my T4 on a 2S2P 8Ah pack, which is a brick, and my truck did an honest 50. We then took the system and put it into my buddy's tc3 and fed it with one of the orion lipo packs. I don't remember exactly how fast it went, but I do remember that it was faster than my truck. If you don't have the motor yet, you might want to try the 5700 on 3S lipo. I KNOW that will do 60.


sleebus,
That's the same thing the guys at Castle said. :) I know it's going to self destruct, but it hasn't shown any signs of slowing down. In fact, now that I've gone from the 3S2P 8Ah pack to the 3S1P 4Ah pack, it is actually faster and I was able to go up two teeth on the pinion. This thing is just stupid fast. The guys at Castle tell me that a 5700 on 3S lipo is faster, but I find that hard to believe, but they probably know better than I do. What I'm thinking is that after this motor grenades, maybe I should look at the 5700 on 4S lipo. :)

Although the mamba max motors are rated to 65,000 rpms, the guys at Castle have told me that they regularly test their motors up to 80,000 rpms, without anything blowing up. Of course, the motor is on borrowed time running it like that, but oh, what a way to go! Besides, I don't think that I'll ever wind it out. When you get going that fast, the race is over before anything even breaks a sweat.

If/when it does grenade, I'll be sure to at least email some out. I don't have a host for pics right now.