(BREAKING OUT THE LIGHT SABOR)....OK, back off Glacier Girl...:') I'm only trying to hop up the stock internals WITHOUT going to standard electronics. I'm content with trying to tweak out whats stock. Maybe next spring I'll go standard with a lipo and a brushless setup, but that involves money. Mainly the major expense is a good radio in my calculations, as lipos and brushless motors are dropping in price.

For those who don't know....The Mustang uses a 480 (probably the same motor as the Stryker) and it's RX/Speed Control can be set to handle Nimhs or Lipos. It also features at least two (that I'm aware of) flight modes, V-Tail mixing or the other (which I don't know the name for). Mainly, this means you can throw it into a V-Tail plane like the Challenger. You can also throw it into a Stryker. Now, what this means is you can use the Mustang internals to power anything up to a 480 motor...so I would guess it would not be possible for an Extreme as it uses a 540 (580?). However, it opens several options for smaller planes like the Challenger. I would assume using the stock 400 Challenger motor (or a 400 Zagi, etc) would pose no problems with the Mustang's RX as the main concern would be amp draw and smaller motors should draw less amps. On the other hand, you could stick a 480 in there and blast that baby throw the sky.

My main question about using Mustang internals is the sport/pro mode (or low and high rates in the Stryker's case). Will the Mustang RX work with the Stryker's low/high rates switch on it's TX, and will it also work with the sport/pro mode on the Challenger's TX? Anybody?

Whatsonthecat: What's the name of the 480BB you put in the Stryker and is it reverse timed, etc? Thinking of picking that one up if it performs better like you said.