Well the more I think about going brushless now the uglier it looks. I'm just going to get the aluminum frame, a new 2-in-1 and a second tail motor and call it a day.

A guy with no heli experience walked into the hobby shop I worked with, he brought in a T-Rex he bought new off of Helihobby, they assembled the whole thing for him and he also bought a Hitec Eclipse 7, and he wanted some help on final setup. The first thing I thought was "whoa...this guy has NO IDEA what he's getting in to". It cost him about $1000. Anyways this was my first opportunity to really look at a T-rex. Granted, it was not the CCPM version I am looking to buy (a shame too he shoulda gotten that version considering all the high-cost components on it), but I must say it is quite an impressive little machine. It looks much simpler than I had originally thought (although looks can be deceiving...) but it was an interesting experience. And that Hitec Eclipse 7 was a whole different world. I looked at the thing and saw more switches, buttons and levers than any Frankenstein movie....

Anyways to get to the point, after getting his receiver mounted and his crystal in place and trying to see how to set the Spectra module to channel 57 (no luck, the manual didn't even mention it in the contents) I told him to check out a dedicated heli dealer an hour or so away and that was that.

And then I thought about how complex it would be to make a Blade brushless. It's not worth it. I'm going to save my money and get a T-Rex and get the most out of brushless power.