Chris, you are right - the 13T brushless being pretty much the fastest you can go in Mardave. There are enough of us running at a similar speed at the moment for it not to matter too much, but with a little more practise and set-up time we will get to the point where differences in power are going to be more noticeable because we will all be driving well. My car on 13T with the Extreme Stock ESC is quite a bit more powerful than anyone else's car I think. That's why I'm thinking a future plan to equalise the BL motor to something a little more gearable and not too fast might be wise, seems like Gordy agrees.
Giant Cod do have a few potential candidates. Even down to a 32T 1200kV M-car motor which is probably a bit too slow. Best bet looks to be the EZ-Run 17.5, but it would need testing as the low speed smoothness might not be great. These high inductance sensorless motors don't drive as well as the low turn ones. Exactly how much worse, we would have to buy and test.
You know what would be really great? A stock axle where the diff housing was an outrunner motor. Less pod weight, no gearing issues, controlled power with everyone the same. No gear meshing so one less thing for newbies to get wrong too. Anyway we'll have to keep that one in the dream cabinet for now.
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