Project for someone with fab skills.
 

Hey guys, I just bought a Kyosho Spada 09. It's a 1/12, 4wd, .09 nitro powered on-road car. I'm sure most of you know what it is. Is there anyone here that would care to make a brushless motor mount and figure out the configuration to make it brushless. I have no where to run it in it's nitro form but have a really nice carpet trak by me.

The reason I want to convert this is to have something truly unique and the 4WD would be awesome on the carpet.

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that looks like sweet car, the motor mount shouldnt be that hard, keeping the balance will be the hard part

Looks like it would make an awesome project. Here are my thoughts:

-BL motor where stock engine goes (no-brainer)
-Lipo pack(s) using ~2100mah cells in fuel tank/brake servo location, perpendicular to the chassis
-if you want to keep the mechanical brakes, you could throw a mini servo (like Hitec 5245MG) at the rear of the BL motor
-ESC mounted above BL motor? (where the nitro engine's cooling head goes) or maybe the ESC could be mounted to a plate above the driveshaft

What is all that weird stuff all over the chassie? Looks like it has some tank to hold fluid or something?

:lol:

Looks sweet, send it to me and I will make it brushless. I need another project, the room looks so lonely with only 40 r/cs...

you mean the 40 that were blown away in the storm:lol:

It was all a dream... (cue dream sequence music)

I always wanted to convert one of these and run it outdoors. What track are you racing at?

This would be a super simple, and cheap conversion, just make sure u keep the weight, a 12th scale NEEDS the weight it has to drive well, thats why theres no good solution for 12th scale and lipos. So I would ass weight to it after all is done, to make it the same as it is nitro

Id run a normal 12th set up, LRP TC Sphere, and a Orion 08 motor, IDK how fast you want it to go

The only on-road track I have access to is an indoor carpet track. The AWD 1/12 would be so cool but....it just sold on ebay, so I guess I will stick to off-road.