Originally Posted by
darkangel
I'm new to brushless/lipo setups. Is there a reason why everyone puts the battery on the left side of the chassis and the electronics down the right? Or is it preference as to which side the battery sits and then placing the electronics to balance?
I think it's the routing of the motor wires, with the ESC on the right the wires run a nice no-tweak route from the back of the ESC to the motor tabs.
Aside from that, I could see no reason to run the car one way or the other as long as the car was balanced in the end.