Originally Posted by 1mrdad

I currently race a 17.5 blinky B5RM. I race strictly 17.5 on an indoor 125x65 med - high bite clay track. I am an average driver at best, but my lap times have dropped over 2 sec/lap in the last 6 months because of a combination of switching to the B5RM from a B4, switching to a Tekin RS Gen2, and then the biggest improvement came from switching to a Futaba 4PKS-R from a 3PM-X. I was going to buy a B5M lite as the next logical step. One of the hot multi sponsored young drivers had driven my car at practice a few times. He raced Sunday in stock buggy with his brother's maxed out mid motor buggy. His lap times were the same with the mid-motor as with my rear motor. Will the B5M lite be a waste of money? I hate to invest the $ and time getting it set up if I won't see an improvement in lap times and more importantly to me, consistency.