Sorry guys, what I may need to say here is when I said about gearing options, I'm potentially getting around a setup issue with gearing too, which I know is a bad idea!
Anyway, don't have a gearing chart here, but the car is the BMax, and I was running 21/81. As a guide with an LRP 6.5 23/81 was only getting normal temps, I took 2 teeth off as I went to the 5.5 Novak. By gearing options I've found I can't mesh a smaller pinion than 21 with the 81 spur, I'd have had to to to the 87 spur, but that won't let me use any higher than a 20 pinion. Off the top of my head I think that equated to knocking about 2.5 off the pinion itself. Correct me if I have that wrong!
Anyway, even on lowest ESC punch (I use LRP TC) I had bad rear traction and didn't like that lack of top end on 21/81 with the Novak, so given the gearing which worked on the 6.5, I decided not to change the gearing down even further!
To be fair to Yok, there will be a 84 spur soon, just not yet, and I don't know what other spurs may fit yet.
Finally, I always get more heat in my motors regardless of the car than most people, and use more current, as I have a nasty driving style!! I made 4600's dump on an astro track this summer!! So I wasn't that worried about the smell short term, recently I had a wheel bind during a heat with another car and melted the insulation tape on my connectors, without damaging the motor, so I wasn't that worried. I'll know better now!
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