Nice! One of these days, once all the other stuff I have is caught up, I want to do more with my box of old motors and my old ‘80’s rc cars. Thanks for watching and I’ll try to keep bringing up more of the old school stuff

That cool you still have some options for running brushed classes. Pretty much everything around my area is brushless. The only thing left is TT02 with the stock torque tuned and mini-Mudboss with a 12t. 997 is the only place with open brushed motor. One of these weekends I need to make the trek out there and try some of my old motors.

@@BloodlineRC lol, same here, everyone and their mums is running brushless!, our 10th class is open, as we mostly race 1/8ic and I'm returning and on the nostalgia train. 1990 was last time i raced buggies, so I'm running a Schumacher Procat classic (designed 1989, reissued 2023), with a 80 amp HW1080 esc, Tamiya 23x2 BZ brushed motor on 2s, and having some success, especially against 17.5t even some 13.5T equipped RTR's, hanging with some higher end 2wds through the bendy bits, not down the straight, or over the jumps, lol. Even found a second a lap, by servicing then running my original 1987 Kyosho gold shocks, having the time of my life, cheaper buy in, cheaper running costs, zero breakages so far in 5 practice sessions and one race day, both my 4wd Procat and 1990 2wd Cougar (again reissued 2023) have cost just less than a high end modern 2wd set up, (almost as good as racing lunch box's and Pumpkins summer of 88! or to discover fingering) This is why I've ended up here, searching for old school brushed motors from my era, especially searching for creators like yourself who takes the time and has the knowledge and experience to test things, showing results and comparisons, its also nice to hear people confirm what i remember or think i remember from back in the day. So my search continues for a modern high performing rebuildable 540 brushed motor that truly hits 31-33k rpm with good torque, I do have a almost new Reedy pink dot (15x3 or 15x4) from 1990, this is in the performance range I'm looking for, maybe even over, but would prefer to leave it in place and find a modern replacement and stock up with a couple. Admittedly I never thought finding good new brushed motor was ever going to be a issue. I'm only going to look at the 2nd hand market once I've a comms lathe. The TT02 class you mention sounds appealing, close racing and could be less expensive, especially if upgrades are limited, would be great to see your motors perform on track, I'm well up for that. That 1st buggy race day of mine, in 33 years? end of day finished 3rd out of 6 running, amazing day. cheers and best wishes, AB.