Thunder Tiger Trainer 60 Electric Conversion

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My first real ("real" meaning flown successfully without crashing) RC airplane was a Thunder Tiger Trainer 60 back in 2000. I had bought it as a complete package with a Thunder Tiger GP-61 Sport engine with a 4-channel Hitec radio and standard servos. I was getting trained on it with the help of the club instructors at the Marymoor Radio Control Club (MAR/C) in Redmond WA, and I was having a blast... that is until I clipped the wing on a tree branch and the gravity took over. I ordered an ARF package of the same plane in order to build it again, but then I got cold feet and put all RC stuff into storage. Eight years went by, and I fell in love with RC airplanesagain last year, this time with electric ones exclusively (my wife had never approved of the smell of the glow fuel at home). After owning and flying (and occasionally crashing) over twenty odd electric airplanes, I now consider myself an advanced-beginner RC pilot. With this newfound confidence, I finally took my Thunder Tiger Trainer 60 ARF box out of the storage about a month ago and decided to try to build it as an electric airplane. I used the original Hitec servos but bought a Turnigy Aerodrive SK5065-380Kv brushless motor ($39.95), a Turnigy Plush 80A brushless ESC ($49.99), a Turnigy 5000mAh 6S 20C Lipo Pack ($79.99 when I ordered it, now only $59.99), and an HXT Universal Alloy Firewall Mount ($3.86) from Hobby King. As the radio, I used my Tower Hobbies System 3000 (a 6-channel rebranded Futaba FM radio ...