Originally Posted by
R40Victim
Does yours make a horrible grinding gear sound with the Novak pinion? Mine does! But if you swap it back out for a Losi or Robinson pinon, the noise is significantly reduced. The last race I ran my 8ight E at, had some people scratching their heads trying to figure out how something so fast and smooth, could sound so bad!

Actually, I have never run it with the losi pinion. It does make a little noise....not the smoothest sounding in the world.