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 similar... any ideas?
Doyle
Sprint Plus Motor/Tire suggestions?
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Posts: 754 (05/03/08 10:49 AM) Home Racing Guru! |
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 
Crab Alley Speedway
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Posts: 667 (05/03/08 11:04 AM) Home Racing Guru! |
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.
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Posts: 30 (05/03/08 12:14 PM) |
I believe we put some Fox motors in ours seems to work real good fast but not to fast
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Posts: 211 (05/03/08 09:49 PM) |
falcon or if you can find one a chetta work perfectly
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Posts: 32 (05/03/08 11:32 PM) |
Yea I guess it was a falcon
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Posts: 46 (05/03/08 11:33 PM) |
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.
Slingin' mud the electric way!
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Posts: 488 (05/05/08 09:27 AM) Home Racing Guru! |
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.
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Posts: 216 (05/05/08 02:25 PM) |
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 plastic track.
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Posts: 4595 (05/05/08 03:17 PM) HRW Moderator |
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.
Da Vols - Bruce & Harriet & Kali
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Posts: 490 (05/05/08 04:25 PM) Home Racing Guru! |
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 end of the shaft but that's no big deal...I'll have to check with the rest of the group on both motor and tires as we try
differant combinations so we are still open to any and all input!
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Posts: 758 (05/05/08 04:54 PM) Home Racing Guru! |
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
Crab Alley Speedway
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Posts: 491 (05/05/08 05:05 PM) Home Racing Guru! |
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!
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Posts: 442 (05/05/08 06:52 PM) Home Racing Guru! |
You can't imagine what action I can get with light, open wheel cars! They will fly!
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Posts: 1021 (05/05/08 07:47 PM) Home Racing Guru! |
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 Never argue with a fool, they'll drag you down to their level then beat you with experience. |
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Posts: 492 (05/06/08 09:10 AM) Home Racing Guru! |
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 we are looking for.
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Posts: 1498 (05/06/08 09:49 AM) Home Racing Guru! |
We've sold 150 Falcon 1 motors in the last year and have yet to have a complaint.
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Posts: 493 (05/07/08 03:45 PM) Home Racing Guru! |
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 need to make a decision on the tires.. I noticed in BigMikes post showing his he didn't use the O-ring tires either.
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Posts: 48 (05/11/08 05:10 PM) |
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 time will tell there.
Brion
Slingin' mud the electric way!
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