I've got the motors mounted onto the brackets with the wheels. Played around to get a good engage. Gives a neat tidy package



Mounted them into the chassis of Otis - yeh, looks like a box of wires just for testing



Need to put proper spacers under the brackets. For now spaced with nuts off the bolt heads.

The other thing I have done is used some of the weight to reinforce the flipper arm. The torque of the DeWut broke the welds a couple of times so have a bar bolted to the sprocket that connects to the arm. This should be alot stronger. My concern now is the strength of the chain.



I will weld the front forks onto the arm once I am happy with the clearance of the wheels.

The biggest learning from all of this is that the motor and ESC have to be viewed as a system along with the transmitter.
With brushed motors its pretty much plug it in, trim it up and away you go. With brushless for drive the 3 have to be viewed as a combination and at least 2 of them are programmable.
e.g. changing the trim significantly means reprogramming the limits on the ESC

Its driven (badly - left and right were reversed at the time) around the garage and on the basis of the things I knocked over looks promising
Time to get tuning, no turning back as I sold the speed 900s