[glassdoctor]

My truggy is geared 14/49 with the 1700kv motor... and I have actually run it at 12/46 on the small local track. But 14 is much more fun :)

At 12/46 it barely sniffs 30mph which is really ok for smaller tracks but doesn't have much wow factor.

I ran Bowtie MT tires last summer... and I have run the stock Jammin CRT without a problem. Those are a little smaller and lighter than Muggy ones but not a huge difference imo.

I know what you mean about the cogging, etc during a race... it's much more likely to screw something up in the heat of battle. Not exactly patient and careful during a race. ;)

Lower voltage: In theory this is sorta correct but in reality it's backwards. It's easy to contradict yourself here. One one hand, as Castle likes to say... a motor will "draw whatever amps it needs to get the job done". BUT, it's also true that a motor will draw MORE current if you give it MORE voltage, with all other variables being the same.

Think brushed motors for a second....on 6 cells it runs as "normal".
But what happens if you run the same exact setup and gearing on a 3 or 4 cell pack? It's much slower of course... AND it's going to draw a lot less amps.

Now strap in a 10 or 12 cell pack, again leave gearing etc all the same.... it's going to be ballistic and it will draw a ton of amps.

So really.... the motor doesn't try to pull an infinite amount of amps in all situations. It must have voltage to create power. Other wise, you could hook up one cell to a motor and it should dump like 400 amps???? NO, I don't think so....

Anyway.... yeah I was hard on Castle, but man... those standard BS by-the-book generic talking-to-an-dummy answers really piss me off.

Not to mention the fact that they contradict themselves with some points in there. You can't have it both ways, and when we get answers like that (from anyone not just castle...) it just comes across as talking out their @#$.

The real answer is that they don't really have one. Period. But it's not easy to admit that so we get politcal bs.