Outrunner motor options

[Nikko85 4205]

I'm looking at the option for an out runner motor for a TL01 build. I am going for large wheels but I want to keep the speed down and torque up.

I've got a couple of options.

One would be a gear reducer, but I feel that the this would make the motor stick out a lot from the side of the car with a 540 can. Are there any shorter 540 diameter motors that are available? I feel that a 370/380 motor might not quite have the desired effect. I see Tamiya produced an M-sized Acto-tuned motor, but that seems super rare. My thoughts are this probably was a remodelled Mabuchi motor, but not been able to find an equivalent.

The other option is an BL outrunner motor which are short enough so they could  be used with a gear reducer too. Are these censored, and could one work with a TBLE 02s, which I have doing nothing.

Any help or ideas would be great too.

[bsy2010 348]

2 hours ago, Nikko85 said:

The other option is an BL outrunner motor which are short enough so they could  be used with a gear reducer too. Are these censored, and could one work with a TBLE 02s, which I have doing nothing.

Crawlers and Scalers are using outrunners now, but none of them is sensored. So, they won't work with your ESC.

You could go for a 25.5 (or higher) sensored brushless motor, but they are not cheap. Or try different brushed motors from 30 to 55 turns, as they are cheap 

[Pylon80 4231]

4 hours ago, Nikko85 said:

but I want to keep the speed down and torque up.

Your use case seems to suit any of the simple 10$ brushed crawler motors, such as a 55t. These are a boring choice compared to an Acto-Tuned or a fancy out runner, but they really do work perfectly to slow down a car while providing tons of torque.

Example:

https://www.amainhobbies.com/rc4wd-540-crawler-brushed-motor-55t-rc4ze0003/p260754

[Big Jon 735]

Outrunners are very smooth, even sensorless. I don’t think that they’ll work with a Tamiya ESC, but they work fine with an ESC designed to work with a 4-pole motor. The only real drawback for your application is noise. Outrunners ring like a bell, and I find their sound unpleasant to the point that I don’t enjoy trail runs with guys using outrunners.