[lurkingknight]

lipo ready is a BS marketing term.

all guns blow up, it's a matter of how soon you want it to blow up.

any gun can run a 7.4 lipo... that's not any more stressful than a 9.6 nimh. Be lazy with trigger pulls and you'll burn your contacts faster, pull fast and with purpose, it won't arc as much.

If you want to do 20-35 rps mag dumps with 11.1v lipos all day long, then we're talking some custom work... no gun can deal with that. At the very lease a good shim job, sorbo and aoe adjustment.

I like vfc guns, I hate their self shimming gears. pulling the spring collars off makes them even weirder to shim, and I'd just as soon pull the gear set and put in a different one just so I can shim it right. I just worked on a vfc 416, it's going to run 7.4s on a lonex a1 for the next little while, I tried to shim those gears but in the end, decided that it was best to just leave the self shimming junk in there, the piston showed no signs of wear or PE, it's just the self shimming stuff drags the gear train and seems be noisy in general compared to a well shimmed box. Other than that, it seems to work, but you're telling me that tiny little spring can hold the torque of an aeg motor? yeah no.

The one thing the vfc gears seem to have going for them is that they are fucking WIDE. That's probably why the self shimming gears don't blow up.. it's because they're so damn wide the gear mesh can be sloppy and still be ok.