Possible brushless setup (your thoughts)

[brushlessboy16]

6s in a buggy is overkill. i run 4s in my truggy and can outpace nitro buggies.

Zippys are worth there weight, but if you have money to spend get an RCM pack or enerland based pack. and 80mm medusa is too big for a buggy. Try a 70 or 60. remember that the buggy will be about 8-9lbs when your done- Doesnt need THAT much to make it move how you want it. MMM and a 1512 or 2650 seems to be the hot ticket in Buggies

[lincpimp]

I agree that 4s is fine in a buggy. With 6s you run into problems fitting the larger lipos under the body, and the addl weight really throws off the balance. I run a 1600kv medusa 60mm in my hyper8, and plan to use fp 3200 5s lipos, as my 2170 6s setup just does not have enough runtime.

As far as equipment, a decent budget setup would be the hobbywing 80amp esc with a 2200kv 60mm medusa on some sort of 4s lipo, around 5000mah 20c+.

Better would be the cc mmm 2650 combo on 4s.

The budget setup could easily be done under 300 bucks for motor esc and lipo. You will spend 50-75 bucks more for the MMM setup.