This is amazing... using a piece of paper and a pencil I sketched out a solution (I think) to my own question!
1. It appears I need to buy 8 two cell Kokam packs, 5 series connectors and two parallel connectors.
2. I then assemble four packs of two (2S) packs using series connectors to give me 4 packs of 4S2p.
3. Next I connect two of these 4S2P packs using a parallel connector (and repeat for #2) to yield two 4S4P packs.
4. Finally I connect these two packs together in series to make 8S4P.
Is this correct? It sounds like a Rube Goldberg approach but it represents the limit of my thinking!
The project will be a 1/5 scale Kangke Monocoupe (shipping very soon) and a MaxCim motor and controller. Tom Cimato suggested the 8S4P LiPo Kokam batteries and I'm just trying to figure out how to make this work!
Thanks again!
Curt