Need motor gearing advise

Hey guys,

Some of you may have run across my 8ight T thread. Anyway, I just got my Neu 1512 1.5Y in and was very disappointed with the performance. It was a downright dog. Not fast at all. The motor seems to be running right, it's just slow. When I pick the truck up off of the ground and gun it, it hardly torqued at all in my hand geared 14/46, which is the gearing that should have been a nice setup for a 1.5Y.

Well, I just ran it geared 16/44 and it's really starting to wake up. My front yard is about 50' long and I spent a solid five minutes doing sprints. Running full throttle and then slowing down just enough to hang a u turn and then back on full throttle. At the end of the run, the MM esc was at 125*F, the battery pack was at 110*F, and the motor was at 150*F. When I did this with my 9XL, the motor easily got up to 200* in that short time with that sort of hard running.

I'm thinking at this point, that there is nothing wrong with the motor. I just got one that was mislabeled. I suspect that I got a 1512 2Y, rather than a 1.5Y. The 2Y is a 1400kv motor, rather than a 1900kv as the 1.5Y is supposed to be.

Just the temps that I am getting are telling me that I can gear up even farther. Am I right in thinking that I can simply continue to gear up while watching the esc temps? If I gear up a bit more, I should be able to bring the motor temps down some too.