ok yeah that esc should be handling the motor no problem.. have u put heat sinks on (the motor and the mosfet fins).. and also make sure that the drive drain is free to move when u take the motor off if should pretty much spin freely..
how is the mesh becasue if it is to tight it may be casueing it to bind abit .. finaly are u running it forwanr then reverse than forward.. lots becasue teh ESC dont take lost of direction change that well and will heat up.. ceause it has thermal cutoff dont worry about it heating up it should turn off before it does any damage
hmmm depends on what you want it for.. if u just wanna do circles of ur back room yeh there fine.. but both kyosho and iwaver need tons of hopups to race them..
toyo if u really want to get some kick and keep the efficency up how about a single cell lipoly it should put aout about 3.6v and have around 1000mah compared to 2.4v 200mah (if u used the biggest capacity vells around) also less weight which again will increase run time
