Originally Posted by
kwkride
We have the opposite experience at our track. A few of the guys switched to 21.5 motors. On the straight, the silver cans just walk away from them. Last week, the silver can that I was running was new, and I didn't do any "break in" to it, just stuck it in the car. They jokingly said that I was cheating by NOT switching to a brushless motor.
We are now agreeing that we will all switch to 21.5s to keep the racing close.
We had this same experience a couple of years ago. We ended up letting guys run 17.5s and then the speeds were almost identical to the silver cans.
Just to clarify this is with "blinky" ESCs.
Same here, but we do "crank" the timing in excess of 45 degrees. If you don't advance the timing, you're right. The motors don't perform unless the timing is advanced.
Try setting the timing at 50 degrees or so and see what happens. It'll pull the "poop" right out of your shorts.