Well following my brush with brushless, it became quite evident that my XT8 17 was getting jealous, so I took it for a blast. After warming it up with a couple of laps for about 1.5 min, I got the following results.




What I saw surprised me. To be fair, this result was off road, on a twisty, bumpy grass track with craters and jumps. But even so, big bad 28-8 - whilst brilliant and everything - 29mph was less than I thought. I would have guessed more like 40mph all day long, even on grass.

I will test again on tarmac with taller gearing to get a better comparison between the 28-8 vs Kuron 825, but here we see the difference in both torque and power between Nitro and Brushless. In real terms, the Novarossi 28-8 is putting out 2 hp, where as the Kuron 825 is a 3000w motor - this equates to 4 hp. This ignores completely the torque, which for the 28-8 is 80.64 oz/in @ 22,000 rpm. The Kuron torque specs aren't anywhere to be seen, but it will likely be much, much more than this.

But it just goes to show - what gets you around a track consistently and quickly requires something that can get it to the ground without drama.