Originally Posted by Bobby Z

I will have to check out my bearings tonight to see how smooth and free they are. Although my M18Pro handles better than any M18 I had before it, I did notice the bearings are not as free. Time to clean them out perhaps.

One last thing I also wanted to mention to the person who started this thread. All stock motors are not created equal.

I purchased a Team Orion stock and did normal break in process on the motor and it was drawing only .21 amps on an ICE in break-in mode.

I then put on a Team Xray stock motor on the same ICE for a break in and it read .36 amps draw.

Both motors had the same amount of break in and maintenance done on them. The Xray motor was way faster on the track compared to the Orion.

I hear the HPI stock motors are probably the fastest out of the bag but the others can perform well with some additional break in time.