Brushless Baja with 2 Castle 1717s?

[lincpimp]

Well, you will have to have some small pinions and may run into issues getting the larger diameter 1717 to physically fit with those small pinions. Keep in mind the gas engine never gets much over 25k rpm, and the 1717 on 6s would be doing 35k or so. Maybe go down to 5s for 29-30k rpms? Just a thought... I would go for 6s and lower gearing, longer runtimes...

Stock pinion size is 18 IIRC, so you would need to go down to a 12t or so. Maybe throw that into BG's speed calc and see what it gives you?

As for power, I see no reason why 2 1717 motors would not move the baja just fine. A BL baja would not be twice as heavy as my lst and the 1 1717 I have in there throws it around.

2 1717, 2MMM and 2 of the zippy flightmaxx 5000mah 40c 6s lips would make a nice setup. Given the cost of 1717 motors right now you could almost buy all of the motors, escs, and lipos for the cost of a 22 series neu... 140 for the motors, 240 for the escs and 200 for the lipos. 580 total...

Keep in mind the dual vxl and similar emaxxs run just fine.