brushed motor max temp

[shaunjohnson]

had it out again today at the track in between races.
roasted the rear bearing in the LRP, that caused the end bell to melt around the bearing housing.

so i asked the local guru on brushed motors, he's been racing RC for years so he's an information bank on brushed setups.

he pointed out the fecked BB and hence i made a franken-motor out of the dead venom's end bell and bearing and used the LRP can and armature and brushes.

works good now and the venom end bell runs cooler.

but i'm still geared way low so i figured that i could see what the max temp would be.
under race conditions it got to 150-160 and very slowly rose/fell in that area.
then i did a few high load doughnuts on the road and temps saw 175 so i stopped.

so i guess this is normal. i just dont wanna melt the end bell.
it's gotta last until the 10th of jan when we have a big ass race at a mates private track (22 cars on a backward track FTW!!)

will be upgrading to a MMpro and 1450kv motor and running 6s later on, geared for 40 of coarse