Thanks jrowles!

Lesson definitely learned, car went up on blocks next time I turned it on. And I'm glad I did, as soon as the battery acknowledged the 4s battery it just opened up full throttle until I shut it off. Next time before I turned it I turned the throttle control on the transmitter all the way down, the wheels didn't turn but as soon as you touched the trigger it was like full throttle. So I recalibrated the throttle position again as you said and it seems ok now but I'm scared to death (lol)to try programming the esc again. And I really want to turn the brake down to 50%.

What's the difference between how you set the esc to program the throttle position and how you do it to change the settings? Reading the directions there doesn't appear to be a difference and I think that was my problem. Directions for throttle range setting say to switch off the esc, turn on the transmitter, set the direction of throttle channel to "rev" (which seems odd to me) and set the atv to 100% and disable the abs function of transmitter (how the hell do you do that). Next hold set button and turn on, release the set key as soon as possible. Then go through the motions. There's a note that says if you hold it too long it will enter "program" mode. How do you tell the difference between throttle calibration and programming mode?

For the "programming" instructions it says to turn off esc, turn on transmitter, hold set key and turn on esc. Red led flashes. Then it says to hold set key for 3 seconds to cycle to each of the settings.

What's the difference, what am I missing/doing wrong??? HELP, don't want to mess anything up!

Sorry so long...that was a bitch to type on an iPhone! Lol