I don't know if anyone got back to you on this in a PM or not, so I'll say what I know. There are quite a few of these little buggers running around with brushless motors, but there are quite a few required upgrades before headed that route. First off is a slipper, which have been difficult to find aside from straight off ebay. Dinball stocks quite a few upgrades for this car, as does stella models. Using the MM motor is pretty difficult as the screws around the can cause interference issues. But the word from castle is they are only there for while the cement dries, we can take them out without worry. The part plastic rear diff cup, WILL melt. I've ordered the 3racing steel ones. So far the biggest worry has been trying to figure out spur and pinion combos for this thing as they are .5 pitch. (correct me if i'm wrong)
One of the guys here is running one, that we put a trx vxl burshless combo in for a few runs to see how it'd handle. (as dumb boys go.. we didn't have a slipper on it) It was crazy fast with the supplied gearing, but all of a sudden turned into a front wheel drive car. So we pulled the rear diff, and found the plastic gear that holds the diff balls had melted. No hobby shop or part support here in Afganistan, so we broke out the CA and turned it into a spool. Runs very fast, and the rear swings out wildly in turns. but everything is holding together quite well. I wouldn't race a DF-03 with a "welded solid" diff, but it's pretty reasonable for bashing.
I've got a kit for myself on order, and am probally going to run the MM 5700 in it, though I'm going to be super carefull on building / reinforceing the diff's in order to keep them alive.
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