ok heres the story, i bought some nice new neo's went to put the in the stage one motor (just wanted to see what it could do with all that torque) i desoldered the caps from the body, and made a paperclip shaped like a U to move the coms outa the way, bent the tabs back and pulled the enbell off

i then used a paperclip with a little bend in it stuck inside the hole at the front of the motor to push the magnets out.

i then put my nice new neos in and made sure to reintal the retaining clip, i then put the endbell back on resoldered the caps

when i gave the motor a spin it felt "notchy" i thought this was weird, but decided to try it anyways

i put it into my xmod and ran it, it accelerated like crazy but only went a quarter as fast as it did with the stock motor, i knew it would go slower but this didn't seem right...

so i proceded to try and determine what the problem was, pulled the motor apart again and re assembled it, made it a little better but still not even close to stock speed...

i decided to try it in a stage 2 motor, i put it all together and ran it, now it had the top speed of a stage 1 motor but the stage 1 motor put it to shame on the acceleration side of things.

when i decided to put the stage 1 motor back to stock, it didn't spin right, it felt like there was more friction then it used to, i compared it to my brothers stage 1 motor, it definatley didn't spin right, i decided to break th motor down and figure out what was causing the friction

i basically narrowed it down to the case, no magnets, no coms and the thing just won't spin right

so my question is why? what did i do wrong so i don't do it again and can i be fixed?

sorry for the long post...