I was worried about the springiness which was why I was running 80 wt. It helped the rebound quite a bit. I didn't mind the bottoming as I am running titanium skid plates...
I run its little brother (the 1/16 Revo VXL) on 3s and it's a beast. I ended up going up 2 teeth on the pinion (it had the "speed pinion" pre-installed and was having thermal issues on 3s) which fixed my thermal issues. I get about 15-20 minutes on the smaller Venom 1600 mAH 3s packs. I would...