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O.S. FS-52 Surpass Ringed 4-Stroke

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You might be able to with a BB conversion but you'd have severe overheating problems. That engine is designed to be constantly cooled by a spinning prop in front of it.
 
Would if I made a small fan run off the flywheel? With a hole in the body that it sucks it from.
 
I bet you could get a small electric fan from an ESC to work as cooling. It would likely still overheat though.
 
yeah maybe. Or maybe I could rig up a liquid cooling system. Maybe a bunch of heat proof tubes running all around the engine that leads to a small rad. That would be sweet!
 
Yeah I figured. That would work then? Without a fan? Just drop in? well Convert it to different body mounts but you get it.
 
No, it will not drop right in. First of all, the carb is at the rear of the engine rather than the front so you'd have to rig up a different way to actuate the carb. I'm not 100% sure because I've never tried but I'm not sure that the TMaxx flywheel will work with it either. Putting that engine into anything other than the specific cars it was designed to fit takes some modification. It's a torque monster but I'm not sure how it would perform in a heavy monster truck. It was designed for use in 1/10 scale touring cars but I've also read of people outfitting them into 1/10 scale stadium trucks as well with rediculously good results.
 
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I had a friend that had a fs-40 in his maxx . Not alot of rpms but torque monster for sure . He had to have a heavy flywheel made to smooth out the idle but it worked really well . I dont remember the engine ever overheating at all , but I was always too busy fixing my maxx to notice .
 
Yeah it would go through just about anything as long as it doesn't hang up. Maybe some sand tires for that super slick mud and rip...
 

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