Anyway, I grew up a sprint car fan and have been to quite a few races. After my friend giving me an original RC10 for free, I was just doing some research and stumbled onto the sprint car conversions and the whole dirt oval world and I was hooked; I had to have one. I was very close to buying a kit new but decided to keep an eye on ebay for awhile. I found one that looked great last week and I picked it up (surprisingly the only bidder).
It has a stealth tranny that is very very smooth and some decent looking wheels with some old tires, but they still have tread. The decals are great, and mirror a Lance DeWease paintjob, who I had actually heard of. Everything on it matches. I also looked on the RD site and 2 of their example cars are different DeWease paintjobs, which I thought was interesting. It also came with 2 top wings and a decent servo. The bottom is virtually scratch free. Blue threaded shocks, RPM turnbuckles and ball cups.
Now for my question. What motor and pinion/spur should I put in it? I dont know a whole lot about motors... I have an e-savage and they talk about 540 vs 550 vs 600 motors, but around here I hear about different numbers of turns, so I dont know what to do. I will be using a novak rooster ESC. I dont plan on racing it yet, so I dont need anything fancy, but I would like to just play with it, at least in a parking lot, if not on a baseball field (softball would be even better, no mound and all dirt infield), as I saw hoopty suggest, which would be a blast. I have a race prep motor in the rc10, but that will probably go when I sell it. Right now I have have an old no-name motor with some chewed up pinion/spur gears just to mock everything up, but they all 3 sound pretty nasty. Any input appreciated!
