Raman! That is EXACTLY the type of reply I was hoping for! I will definitely take your advice and start with the slower motor and upgrade later if it suits me.

I would like to add as well... that when you opened with "why'd you fall off the wagon?" I literally laughed out loud. The truth is, I am currently living in a 3/4 house sober living house... just coming up on my 14th month clean from drugs and alcohol. The longest i've been clean since I was 16 years old... and the first time since then i've had my head on straight. When my addiction started to get out of hand, my R/C equipment was one of the first things I sold to support my bad decision making. The rest soon followed and I started travelling the country living out of a backpack and playing music on the street to further fund my journey to the bottom. See, in this sober house i'm in now, we're not allowed to do or have anything that promotes reclusive behavior... so, no televisions, no video games, which obviously would also include things which I had previously done to pass time like shoot my bow, or go plinking with my rifle. You actually sign a contract when you come here that agrees to not have hobbies like that. However, R/C cars ARE something I am allowed to have here, to give me something to past the time and tinker with. In active addiction, you tend to lose interest in anything that doesn't have to do with the substance of your choosing.... but, the R/C love has come back with a vengeance. I suppose one could say that in a very real way, this hobby is helping me to get my life back... to feel human again... since i've been numb and lost for all these years, in a life where I literally did not care about anything. So when you opened with "why'd you fall off the wagon?".... haha, that was actually the most accurate thing you could have said.