Motor Question

[hornetdude]

hi i have just got a Trinity Monster Horsepower 1987 world champions motor .. the dude i got it from said it cost about £400 new and is nearly as quick as a nito ,is this right or is he full of poooooooo [?]

merry xmas

Steve

ooh its here

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=4831&id=525

[Wireless]

Hrm, IIRC motors of that type were around £40 not £400. As for the speed vs nitro, how long is a piece of string...? Depends on the car it's in, weight, gearing and all the above with the nitro plus what is the nitro motor. etc.

I have found that my Sandmaster .12 nitro is about as quick as yer average Tamiya with a 12-16T motor in it. Any less winds and they go faster. This is best guess based on an average buggy (not truck) with average gearing...

Hope this helps,

W

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Originally posted by hornetdude

hi i have just got a Trinity Monster Horsepower 1987 world champions motor .. the dude i got it from said it cost about £400 new and is nearly as quick as a nito ,is this right or is he full of poooooooo [?]

merry xmas

Steve

ooh its here

http://www.tamiyaclub.com/showroom_model.asp?cid=4831&id=525

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[lji86]

£400 quid sounds expensive but i have no idea im no expert

[Shodog]

Hey I have a bridge in Brooklyn that is for sale. I would say your friend is full of pooo!. Most likey this is a yokomo canned motor with trinity's sticker on it. while some of the motors back in the day were fast, there is no comparison to the motors of today

Jim

[TWO STAR]

i have one of those mentioned motors,mine is a 17turn single the motor you have is a 13 turn triple as far as know..the price was $49.99 .the only electric motors i knew worth $400 back in 87 would have been the astroflight cobalt 40.hope this helps....

[mr_lister999.]

yes, it does depend on what nitro car you are comparing it to. I heard at one point the electric TC3 reached around 80 mph on a test track. This is much faster than many of the nitro kits and that was with a 12 turn motor i think. 400 for a motor... no, can't ever imagine that. Today, even tamiya's motors (expensive) are a maximum of 72 pounds for the most expensive i have seen. I recently bought a brushless motor and that was around 130 pounds i think. These were hand made with cobalt magnets made in a limited batch so i really cant see how 400 could ever be a cost for a motor.

i could be completely wrong of course but it does sound like poooooo.

[TWO STAR]

80 mph with a 12 turn?,im having a hard time hitting that with my

aveox 6 cell powerhouse brushless.(60 thou rpm).

[Razer]

Here's the link:http://www.teamassociated.com/racerhub/rac...acereport17.htm

It was 70+MPH with 10 cells. But that's still VERY fast. You'd get pulled over for that in a 1:1 car.

[TWO STAR]

awsome speed!,i know that in 2001 chris collins hit 112.7 mph

with a associated rc10L30, it had a whopping 24 cells and a aveox 2 turn brushless motor.unfortuneatly it was not recorded,but just witnessed by associated team members............

[Razer]

Yeah, that was Cliff Lett. He ran a TC3 the same day with 14 cells and a custom motor (brushed) compliments of Mike Reedy to hit 96.4MPH.

[Stu.B]

I have that exact motor. It was pretty hot in it's day, a whole 14 turns! The alloy endbell is nice, i still use it on my touring car. As for being as fast as a nitro: I think not! It was quick but only compared to the motors of the time. It cost me 25.00 pounds second hand but barely used so I guess anyone who payed 400 pounds was severely ripped off! A good motor for a restored car!

[raemin]

I have the pink version of the above mentioned trinity, back then, these were almost 650FF (100Euros), and were 9 turn triple! Only problem, was that the electronic could not handle the power of this beast : even the motor plug got melted (I am not talking about the tamiya battery plug, but round ones for the engine). My avante was much quicker than my nitro ford RS200 back then.

Appart from the power of this engine, what was very nice back then was the quality of the end bell.

For your info these engine were marketed in 1988 (the year following the worldchampionship victory), and not 87.

[sparky(2)]

Electric cars can typically go faster than nitro cars on courses/tracks where there a lot of turns. On straightways most gas cars with a decent size motor are often faster. However, nitro cars typically have a delay in acceleration and lose speed in the turns.

JMHO.

Regards,

Spark.