Originally Posted by
Roelof
Most people think to easy about brushless. You still have to do the maintenance of replacing bearings, rotors (if you want to have it optimized) and outline sensors if you want to have it perfect. And then when no blinky is used you need to find all the correct settings to your motor. If you follow the used market it is surprising to see how fast motors, ESC's and batteries are sold by racers to get the latest all new again.
And that is what I did mention before. You can try to hunt for so called team material or with some effort create your own team material.
Originally Posted by
Zerodefect
What? Just one motor?
21.5 class only runs on even numbered Saturdays, when the moon is visible and Jupiter's red spot is facing earth.
21.5FT runs if the moon isn't visible.
And neither of those racers will show up if there's a fog. Then you'll have to run 17.5.
No worries though. As soon as one class gets popular, we'll create another one so you can go motor shopping again.
So don't forget to add the cost of a soldering iron. And a transponder.
Again the simple answer to both of these points is run mod and learn to drive it! After all if you really wanted to run a 17.5 in mod there is no reason you cannot do so if you think that is what works best for you!
As for the motor setup stuff I am 99% sure that both of the UK national champions would have simply taken there prefered wind of motor out of the box, checked the endbell timing is visually around 25 degrees and bolted them in to their cars where they would stay pretty much all year. If they needed more top end for a long straight add turbo, if they needed more grunt in the infield then add boost.
The whole "stock" thing doesn't make any sense at all ..... spending a bunch of money on special parts to make a car work better with a less powerful motor rather than building a kit and throwing in the same mod motor that you ran the last season(s)... really!