I have a question for the guys who know.

[Rivermaxx]

Yea, thats the plan I want to change the bearings in the diffs & lube the trans. Shim up the suspension and make sure nothing is binding. I am going to get rid of the monoblock maybe run 2 3s high c batts to remove some weight and try to get the truck under 10#'s again. As far as being trial and error in my eyes thats whole fun of it. Putting something together that has allready been thought out for you, what fun is that. Anyway there can't be to much error since 81.75mph has never been reach by any maxx truck ever. So I must be doing something right. We all know it can be faster with a little more tweaking.

[pinkpanda3310]

I'm not into speed runs but I'll put my 2 cents in

I would think higher kv motor will give less initial amp draw making it easier on the esc. Being a lighter motor with less amp draw you could use slightly lighter batteries as well. An example would be the novak hv set up, the motor is an amp hog but the esc is only good for 60A (half of the mmm).

The trade off would be less efficiency from the esc at speed due to the high switching rate but your not getting to those speeds much by the sounds of it.

1:1 speed run cars take as much time as they need to get to their terminal speed but with rc your limited buy the radio and or track so it's more of a drag race and any possible weight you can lose is going to help.

[Rivermaxx]

I was thinking the same thing. Not sure what my radios distance is capable of.But I could of went farther than I did.