Motor lengths and diameters.

[brian015]

Originally Posted by Shimmy

Also, are there any tie down clamps or something for these long motors?
Something to hold the back end down solid so it doesnt move or bend or rip out the screws on a hard landing.

I use one of the HPI flux motor mounts to brace my 1527 (the motor is 4" long):

http://www.rcplanet.com/HPI_Motor_Mo.../hpi100903.htm

I bought mine on eBay.

[Shimmy]

Kinda forgot I made this thread, haha.

Anyways, thanks for the replies fellas.

I am planning on 6s, I did think of 4s for a while but figured 6s would be quite fun and should get longer run times.

At the moment, I think I am leaning towards the 1500kv motor, although I am still not 100% sure, I will be when I pay for it (possibly tomorrow or monday), only because then it will be too late to change my mind, haha.

One more question about the Wye vs Delta thing...
With a Wye wound motor, more timing is required to get it running right correct?
Could this chew into run time much?
I played around a little on my 3550 leopard wye wound motor, but dont really have something I could compare it to.
I noticed after putting the timing up it ran much better and cooler but it seemed the run time was a little shorter than usual (compared to a velineon 3500), I didn't actually time it though, and I was running it pretty hard.

As for the motor brace, that HPI one looks pretty good and study, probably the best option but I am not sure if they would fit on the MBX5T.
However I am thinking of the Losi 8E one or just run some high density foam underneath (shape it), havn't quite figured out how to stop it from going the other way though.

[nuz69]

A wye motor doesn't necessarily need high timing, only if it's used at high RPM and low load. 0 timing is fine for standard RPM range like 30-35K... Anyway the difference between 0 or 10° timing is pretty small.