My Strike, out of the box, would straight up run away from out of the box Slashes both in acceleration and top speed but the motor crapped out after 2 race weekends.

What is weird is me and another guy (who has a Slash) both swapped in Trinity Duo 2 17.5's and are both running them on Traxxas VXL esc's and he runs away from me now (and I have more timing set on the motor in my Strike).

At the moment I am chalking it up to the entire bottle of Stealth grease I put on the transmission gears to try to get them to last any length of time., that or I got a lazy motor.