Originally Posted by porterdog

Thanks for that. My LHS is pretty good and they carry Spektrum but I'm new to the hobby and didn't know if it would be improper to ask to use a NIB receiver for test purposes.

This is the first time in this car, but the Slash has a setup that's really similar (same battery and ESC, different motor) and it never had an issue there so I wonder if I juked the RX when I moved it over... Took it apart and didn't see anything amiss, but those electrons are little.