I had the chance to try the car again tonight.
Charged the battery untill the green light on the charger came on.... multimeter read 8.4v
Car ran fine about a minute or two then started jerking and cutting in and out.

Pulled the battery pack and it was still at 7.84v so should of had plenty of juice to run the motor.
The red led in the car comes on everytime i push the throttle but it doesnt respond or it just sputters/jerks. Triple checked all connections...bannana connector fully seated,motor connection good,esc connections good, no damaged or shorts in wires that i could find.



The ebay seller got back with me and seems like a nice guy...appologized and offered a refund,exchange,or his techs think it could be the esc and he offered to send me a new esc........
Im just going to have him send the new esc.... I dont really feel like having to package the car up and find time to stand in line at post office for an hour.

I cant find any info on these exceed esc's or much exceed info in general. Nitrorcx sells allot of exceed stuff so dont understand why they are not more documented
Oh well- at least i have a while to figure things out before it gets warm enough to take it outside.