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Old 10-26-2008 | 07:11 PM
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Lilredmachine
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Default RE: Racer looking for a basher MT

Uh, anyone here call for a brushless E-revo?

It's faster stock in terms of acceleration and top speed than any other MT anywhere, apart from a couple of other bespoke electric MTs, in any state of modification, so you nitro boys go ahead and argue about this .7 of a hp here and 3oz of torque there, and we'll keep our REAL hp and 60mph+ top ends straight from the factory.

It's funny that people are willing to argue over amounts of power that make little to no difference in actual driving as most motors are producing nothing near either there claimed factory figures or dyno figures when put into 11lb+ monster truck applications. Driving feel and power depend on your state of mind and the atmospheric conditions on the day, as well as whether or not you can tune (and for the most part, people cannot tune properly, or have tuned the engine to the point of destruction). When it comes down to it, are you really willing to argue over which massively overmodded Savage/Revo/LST2 etc. is going to pull 10ft on another such truck because it might have an extra gear, better ratios or a $50 more expensive motor when someone can pop down the shop, buy a brand spankers new truck, remove the plastic, throw a couple of cheap 3s lipos into it and blow both into the weeds in pretty much any way you care to mention? Lower CG than even the nitro Revo, faster acceleration and higher top end than even the nastiest nitro trucks, tough by design, low mounted packs, all the mods available for the nitro Revo on the electric... It's pretty much game over for nitro posturing boys.