Brushless power... How much?

[nativepaul]

BL can have way more power than any nitro for limited amounts of runtime, that's why the straight line speed records for all R/C disciplines (cars boars planes and helicopters) are held by electrically powered models, all the fastest drag model cars, boats and choppers (don't know of any plane drag racing going on)) that I know of are electric too.

As for what happens if you push down on a car to stop the tyres spinning and give it some welly, I have to say I've not tried it, but I guess you would likely burn out your ESC or break a drive shaft, with a MGM 12s 400A esc in a low geared scale crawler you will rip a driveshaft/dogbone to pieces but with an MM in an 1/8 buggy geared for 100MPH you will smoke the ESC. either way its not going to be pretty.