Originally Posted by
EXT2Rob
I've known people who bought an RTR, then took it all apart and put it back together again, just so they'd know how everything goes together and how everything works. It's not a bad idea. Tommy, I hope you ditched the crappy battery connector Tamiya uses in all their stuff. Those things cannot handle Lipo. Or even 7-cell Nimh.
or even 6-cell NiMh

had one melt on my nephew in his pede (old pede which had the tamiya connectors guess it came out prior to traxxas connectors)