At Glaciar Girl's suggestion I just intalled the Venom Racing 370 motor in my Slo-V and the improvement was dramatic and considering in only cost $15 I'm really impressed. Thanks Brad!

I find the stock motor even with the 7 cell battery to be rather anemic. I always had trouble getting much altitude out of it unless I had it carefully trimmed and managed the throttle and turns well. Not anymore! I just maidened the new motor and was able to climb several hundred feet very fast with no trouble at all. You can't get something for nothing of course and I noticed that the battery drained that much faster as well but it was a worthwhile trade off.

In fact the difference was so great, I would guess a good 30% or more of extra power, that I would wonder if my stock motor were not in fact defective, were it not for the enthusiastic response others have had putting it in their J-3 Cubs, another PZ plane that uses the same motor as the Slo-V.

It makes you wonder why Parkzone didn't just use the Venom motor and charge an extra $5 for the plane as that is the price difference between the stock 370 and Venom Racing's version.

The Venom motor is the same size and fits the motor mount perfectly. You will have to remove the pinion (the little metal gear on the stock motor's prop shaft) and intstall in on the Venom. I was able to pop it off easily using a screw driver as a lever and then empoxied into onto the Venom motor.

I highly recommend this inexpensive hop up.