Fastest Motor

[El Pirata]

I was looking, while I was bored during off time in Washington, at an RC Mag and I saw several different motors. I currently have the Trinity's Monster in my RS-4 MT but the thing sucked as I found out while bashing with Sky so I was wondering if there was a super motor out there that I could buy. Price is not too important since I will generally fork out a few hunderd dollars after a serious bash session to fix my T-maxx. Any suggestions?

 

[robriguez]

I dont know if this will help you or not but....

I have run an RS4-MT for about 8 months now. I have mixed review of the truck but I think one of its downfalls is the tension needed on the 2 drive belts. If they are too tight no matter what kind of motor you have it wont run right. I have heard allot of great things about the new "brushless" motors. Mostly due to the fact that there is no physical contact between the comutator and the "brush" so you get a free-er revving motor.

Personally, I use the Trinity Speed gem 2
http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXJX18&P=7

Out of the package, even after breaking in the motor and cleaning then oiling it the best I got out of this motor was about 25Mph......Then I took it to my LHS. He put it on some type of electric motot dyno thing and it registered a 66.5 number (i forget what that number stood for) Then he slighty cut the comm, put in some curved honeycomb brushes, adjust the tension on the brush springs and put a bit of 3n1 oil on the outside bearing by the drive spur....this thing now read 99.8 on the dyno. This thing FLEW after that.

The next time we had the cars out at the LHS with the owners radar gun I was running 38Mph in an RS4-MT with a Dratrash 12T ESC (http://www2.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXAXT9&P=7) and 3000Mah NiMh 6 cell battery pack. I put it in a friends TC3 (I'm not sure of his setup) and was running 44Mph.

For all my years in Electric (started with the original RC10 gold aluminum tub buggy) I have always stuck with Trinity. IMO they make the bext motors.....then maybe Greedy in second place.

 

[El Pirata]

I just bought a brushless motor. Cost a bit more than I would have expected but it'll hopefuloly be worth it in the long run. I'll install it later tonight and see what happens. I guess next step is buying a boat to take on sea deployments like I just came from.

 

[SilentHunterKellen]

Would that be the Novak Brushless? Those things are fast! I've seen a demo of one of those in a HPI Pro2 or something and boy did it fly! That motor, from what i heard, doesn't need any maintenance and will last longer than the car. But...wasn't that motor like $160? Compare that to a Team Orion Core Stock for $40. Keep me posted I'm intrested in this certain Motor.

 

[El Pirata]

That would be the one.

 

[El Pirata]

And that one rocks!!!

:whack: ???? Woodie, wtf?