Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (TSMRA) — Sun, 11 May 2008 17:10:09 GMT

I bought a couple of batches of the Falcon 1 motor. In the first batch of 100 almost half went to a friend who sells cars online and haven't heard anything bad from him. The second half went to the SCORE organization (it's the spec motor for all classes) and so far only one guy has had any go "poof" on him. He likes to run some big gearing pulling cars that weigh between 150 to 200 grams. He has had 3 or 4 blow up. We have only started to dip into the second batch so only...

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (Vintage1952) — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:45:04 GMT

Okee dokee got the Falcon 4s in today and put one to the test.. I like it. With the help of my lovely assistant Ashley (my part time help) I found that at 12 volts when first gunned hard it jumps all the way to 1 amp than settles down to about a half an amp.. so no power problems with it. I like the way it handles and has plenty of speed and torque... I think this is the ticket! Turned a hundred laps with a best time of 2.495 seconds on the 5th lane with a distance is 31.5 feet. So now we...

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (Smith Speedway) — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:49:40 GMT

We've sold 150 Falcon 1 motors in the last year and have yet to have a complaint.

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (Vintage1952) — Tue, 06 May 2008 09:10:31 GMT

Hey Mike, I'm thinking that we don't neccessarily want too much slower a motor.. What I am seeing.. with the Falcon 1 you dropped off is that I had to put some weight on the front to keep from popping wheelies... but no big deal..and it didn't even pull an amp when gunned at 12 volts so good news there... however the only thing about the Falcon 1 that concerns me now is what Mark said about quality issues.. I have him sending me the Falcon 4s. He seemed to think it would fit what...

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (bigmike312) — Mon, 05 May 2008 19:47:48 GMT

I already have a Falcon1 mounted in mine and narrowed a pair of old hard dried-out .790 sponge tires for the front. I also narrowed the rear tires a little since they are just too wide for my taste. I've heard of people having trouble with Falcon1's but I've run several of them and so far haven't smoked one.

I didn't know we were looking for slower motors, I thought we were just looking for something that pulls less amps than a 16D.

Big Mike

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (HoganRacing) — Mon, 05 May 2008 18:52:40 GMT

You can't imagine what action I can get with light, open wheel cars! They will fly!

Just watch out if someone mounts a wing on one of them.

Fly boy

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (Vintage1952) — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:05:45 GMT

Now there's an idea! Keep the H&R motors and go to the die cast bodies! Everybody duck!! Uh Oh here comes Patrick forget ducking... clear the building!

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (frank9129) — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:54:58 GMT

Here you can see the difference between the Sprint Plus on the trailer and the 1:32 diecast on the track.
Bruce (DA VOLS) can fill you in on the details.
Frank

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (Vintage1952) — Mon, 05 May 2008 16:25:55 GMT

Thanks again for the feedback guys.... I just got off the phone with Mark from Eagle Dist. and he was saying the Falcon 1s had some quality issues and that about 1/10th of them had to be thrown away. Any of you run into this? Big Mike sent over one of the Falcon 1s so I'm checking it out now. Mark was saying the Falcon 4 was slower and good quality.. Yeah I had thought about the $5.00 motor too or the Slot-it Orange motor.. the Slot-it would have to have the pinion changed to the other...

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (Da Vols) — Mon, 05 May 2008 15:17:36 GMT

Doyle - If you've found the H&R motor still too fast, then any of it's variants - Fox/Cheetah/Falcon - will be in that too fast category as well.

Since you're looking for Artin-type speed, I'd suggest one of those $5.00 Sun "green" endbell motors.

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (gt40smitty) — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:25:00 GMT

most like to use differant frounts, but i like the o-ring type. less resistance=more speed and you can paint them easily not to mention cost,the o-ring style tires are a lot cheeper and more durrable so you will not have to put on a new set after any crash.all ido for a set up is run the long wamp spacers on the right side and the short ones on the left i run frout o ring tires and cut down pro track .910 tires in the rear and the car is perfact for wood tracks.i use uncut sponge rears for my...

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (Vintage1952) — Mon, 05 May 2008 09:27:31 GMT

Thanks for the feedback guys! Is anyone familiar with the Slick 7 motors. Mark at Eagle says they are about on par with the H&Rs.. I'll check with him on the Falcon 1s. Now about tires: Did you guys run the stock O-ring front tires or change them out? I am using the MX fronts and they also make some MX Indy fronts which are a little narrower than the regular ones.

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (TSMRA) — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:33:02 GMT

Second that on the Falcon. Our group uses the old Falcon 1 and they work pretty good. It seems the cheetah has a little more power than the Falcon 1. The H & R is noticeably more powerfully than the Falcon1.

Brion.

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (carl72) — Sat, 03 May 2008 23:32:36 GMT

Yea I guess it was a falcon

Carl

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (gt40smitty) — Sat, 03 May 2008 21:49:57 GMT

falcon or if you can find one a chetta work perfectly

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (carl72) — Sat, 03 May 2008 12:14:15 GMT

I believe we put some Fox motors in ours seems to work real good fast but not to fast

Carl

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (Pa Dirt) — Sat, 03 May 2008 11:04:57 GMT

I've tried different motors in mine. The Artin didn't have enough snot for the weight of the chassis. I found that the $1 allelectronics.com motors worked pretty good.

Re: Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (frank9129) — Sat, 03 May 2008 10:49:45 GMT

Doyle,
Several of us have the same problems with the 16D motors.
My Sprint just slides down the straights and comes around in the turns. I have a couple of different motors I want to try when I get the time. There are so many cars and so little time. Theresa sees to that.
Keep trying motors and let us know how you succeed.
Frank

Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?

feeds@yuku.com (Vintage1952) — Sat, 03 May 2008 09:21:45 GMT

Hey guys I just got in some of the Sprint Plus Kits... comes complete with everything including a lexan body. The kit comes with a 16D motor which draws a lot of amps. I was wondering if anyone was racing these and if so were you using the stock motor or something else. I put an H&R motor on one and it seems to much for such a little car. These are 1/24th scale kits but still look like 1:32s. I was wondering if they don't need to be slowed down say with the Artin motor or something...