Originally Posted by Joosh M

Alright, so most of you seem to be saying that there is no "magic number" to set the motors to and that it is hard to compare motors based on amp draw. As for my lap consistency, I usually run in the top 3 positions in the A-main in the stock class at my local track, always higher than a 90% consistency ( I think this last Friday's race was a 97%). I finished 3rd this last week as well and it was simply because 2nd place was faster down the straight and was able to overtake me, hence my question concerning a faster motor. I think that I will just take a weekend and go down to the track and setup each motor and play around with gearing, timing and temperature to determine which one feels the fastest on the track. Ideally I believe that it would be the one that can run the fastest with the smallest gearing/lowest amount of timing and the least amount of heat.

Originally Posted by Volksford

The people that say don't use free amps either has someone tuning for them are more equip than the average joe. The average joe doesn't have an analyzer or dyno but he probably has a amp reading device. (DVOM). Also if doing an amp draw between battery and esc, the esc does draw a bit of power. On the order of half amp to 1amp.
As a guy that started with nothing and built up to dyno's, analyzes and stator equipment I can give you this info from an average guy point of view.