Das Uber Hornet!

[WelshHornet]

Hi all, theres alot of knowledge hidden on this site and i need help!

What ideas have people got for how to seriously upgrade a re-issue hornet.

ESC is done and at first i had problems with over heating, wierdly a new bat solved the problem.?!

I've tuned the oil filled rear dampers and they're alright,

but power wise its only got a mabuchi 540RS, and a 2300mah battry.

I'm looking to put in a new cheapish motor because i use it for real bashing and it's only a month old

and on its second mabuchi. the other one burnt out and lit up. (thinking of returning it actualy

anyone with a hornet please post pics of the beasts or let me know ur mods.

i have an origonal hornet with MSC and the new one standard is way quicker already.

[WelshHornet]

pic of the beasty. and one of the rather trashed old hornet wearing brat front wheels to absorb the damage.

I've put grasshopper rear wheels on for now because they're better on the road but i've got about 8 dif sets.

[markbt73]

I can't imagine what you're doing to eat motors so quickly, but may I suggest something re-buildable?

That gearbox will handle anything short of a Chrysler Hemi (it's my all-time favorite RC gearbox), but I think if you went for a decent rebuildable stock motor, something from Trinity or Peak, or one of the Tamiya super stocks, you'll have plenty of power and a much more durable motor.

Anything beyond stock-level motors will require a better ESC. Oh, and I assume you've already added ball bearings? If not, do so immediately.

And you didn't hear it from me, but a Grasshopper or Hornet with a 13 turn double will put a near-permanent stupid grin on your face...

[WelshHornet]

Anything beyond stock-level motors will require a better ESC. Oh, and I assume you've already added ball bearings? If not, do so immediately.

Yep i put on Tamiya ones! I stockpiled the old school hop ups for my last hornet!

Tamiya actualy shipped it with plastic ones which looked a bit dodgy.

I'm thinking of an Aansman racing motor. 21 turn and they're pretty cheap. (5 in the uk)

How easy is a motor to rebuild?

[markbt73]

You mean like this one? That's not rebuildable; you have to be able to remove the brushes and endbell. With that motor, you'll get more speed, but you'll be in the same predicament as with the 540s - wear it out and throw it away. If you look at the endbell of the motor and there aren't screws holding it on, you can't rebuild it.

Motor maintenance isn't hard, but it requires a couple of specialty tools. Here's a decent tutorial on how to disassemble, clean, and rebuild a motor:

http://www.rc411.com/pages/howto.php?howto=9&page=3

You don't need a $200 comm lathe like they show; you can clean it with a pencil eraser once in a while and it will be fine. If it gets too bad, you can take it to an RC shop and have them do it for a small fee.

[WelshHornet]

okay i had alook at that site thanks. the motor i broke sort of started smoking, it wasn't brushless, just a mabuchi 540RS.

my esc is ment to have a thermal cut out but i'm not entirely sure it still works actualy.

when i first got the new hornet it was running 5 mins max then stopping to cool down.

so i cut more vents in the shell and problem eased.

now i got fed up with dirt inside all the time, and carefully fitted a new windshield.

i put a new 540rs in it, now and i've got no problems.

can you just get bad motors sometimes?

alot of people have mentioned aansman racing motors, they're so cheap yet have nice stats.