That is true mike. That was the issue I had with of the "default" boost setting some of the manufactures use. I have seen default setting that are motor melting. IMO the default boost should always be mild, so that new used do fry a motor right off the bat.

@matt looks like boosted classes are on the way out. Kinda makes me sad. There is a some really great tuning options out there for boost. The power I get out of blinky is fine and tons of power normally makes me slower, but I can really tune the feel to my liking with boost. I still dont understand why boost is not taking off. Some people say we should just have only open classes and I kinda agree. It used to be that stock motors were cheapish and mod was more expensive with batteries and motors. But now it seems that stock is more costly than mod. The theory of breaking racers in the skill categories is thrown out by sand baggers. I kinda thought running 17.5 would put me in a more competitive bracket. But all it did was cause the 13.5 guys to run 2 classes, lol. It seems there will never be a sportsman class or a true novice class. Locally people have to be "forced" out of novice. To me a novice are the guys trying to figure out what clockwise is on the track.