A 3.0 is a great all around motor.. If your going ot be using your z-car on a track, unless it is a huge one with lots of straight aways the 3.8 is going to be overkill IMO. But if your ripping around your hard wood living room floor the 3.8 is great!
I purchased a couple of those Hot Wheel's KIT racers which comes with the 2.6 motor. I noticed that the motor is a tad smaller than the 2.2 z-cars motor. I can't seem to get it to work in my z-car. What am I doing wrong? (I tried the foil thing, I got it to work once). The kit motor works perfectly in my char-g.
And how does the 3.8 motor compare size-wise to the other motors? Same size as a bit, as a z-car, as a zipzap?