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Originally Posted by Robbiejuk
My mate ran his cougar 1 when he came back to racing, and against my advice went out an brought a brushless motor and lipo batteries to go in it. Suffice to say the Belt transmission didn't take very kindly to the new power and it melted his diff together. So if you are going to put new gear in it makesure it's not particularily hot. Might be ok with a 10.5 though.
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sorry, but your theory is a bit of a misnomer and misinformative. the BL systems of today do not have any more power than the low wind motors we've run in the past. now if someone had some cheap toy-grade RTR, instead of a cougar, it might be one thing. but there is no rational reason any hobby-quality racer should handle some of the more modern mills.
the only problem with running/racing any vintage rig is the availability or spare parts; so if you have them on hand have at it, but if you're relying on picking them up at the lhs you might rethink it unless you're talking about one of the more popular cars (RC10, JRX2, etc) in which there's tons of spares on eBay every day.
vintage racing is picking up in popularity all over 