I just can't bring myself to agree with this at all. Sometimes cheap is really expensive. If you spend $85-90 on a top of the line motor, you'll have a better motor built with better components. That motor is priced at $38 cause it's components are cheaper. That is a fact.

Yes, it was slower down the straight as you stated. However, whether it had more "rip" out of the corners is immaterial. What matters is who had the faster lap time. On the tighter circuits, the guy with the Killshot can back down on his timing and just ream you out of the corners.

We had this discussion about servos awhile ago. I don't skimp on servos and buy really good servos. I have a friend who all excited about a servo that worked and was $30 or so. My servo was a good JR servo at $120. Over a span of 4-5 years, he spent $120 on new cheap servos and I still had the original JR servo. We both spent the same amount of money,but he still had a cheap servo and I had a great servo. Both cars are M03's which are much tougher on servos.

Point being that cheap isn't always inexpensive.