Novak Ballistic 6.5 running hot...

[blue_pinky]

Hi all,

I have a 6.5t Novak Ballistic in my B44, running vampire lipos via a spread spektrum GTB.

Another guy at my club runs roughly the same setup, same vampire lipo's, standard GTB and Novak Velociti 6.5....so very similar.

On our tranny's, he runs with his exp down by 30%, mine is down by 25%, his end point is 100%...mine is set at 85%

On our tracks, in the same heats with similar lap and race race times his motor temps come off in about the 120's (F) mark, whereas mine have been coming off in about the 150's-160's (F) mark.

We run in a small(ish) hall and are both geared on 21's on kit spur, which for me runs in the 160's. I've played around going to smaller pinions down to an 18 or 19 from memory, which reduced temps a little...down the the 150's.

Esc temps are fine as well by the way.

Transmission all spins freely and feels good as far as we can tell.

So, my question is this...could my driving style...throttle control inparticular cause such a dramatically different running temp? Could the EPA setting be having an effect? Or is there something else that could be causing it? Really want to get my temps down if I can.

Any suggestions gratefully received!!!