540 Motor Upgrade

Can anyone recommend a good 540 motor? I have NO clue what to go w/. Price means nothing. I was on the track yesterday for the first time and was one of the few people to now break anything. I am going to start upgrading stuff. A motor is a way to start. I need a recommendation for that and any other steps to adding parts.

k dog as i stated before in your other post, I recommend you master the skills, do not gun the car right away, this is how you break things. Get spare parts such as shocks wish bones belt if your car is belt drive of dirve shaft in most tamiya cars. Also play with your gear settings first 45 teeth, 50 teeth etc. Trust me when you just start you will break lots of things ranging from 10cent parts to 50 dollars parts. Master the driving skills and those will come down, then you can go get yourself a motoro. But If you plan to stick in this hobby and plan to do lots of racing I suggest saving the money and get a pro car. Then you can also get a better motor etc. I see too many people blowing money on a car that will never compete like the pro cars and waste so much money that they could have bought like 3 pro cars.

As for motoros there are so many choices that is impossible to tell which is right for you untill you know what you want. Like do you want more torque, or just plain speed. A lot of the after market motor require speical battery setup as well and from looking at your car mu first suggestion is to get a better esc than the traxx one.

Originally posted by God|Zilla168
I recommend you master the skills, do not gun the car right away, this is how you break things. Get spare parts such as shocks wish bones belt if your car is belt drive of dirve shaft in most tamiya cars. Also play with your gear settings first 45 teeth, 50 teeth etc. Trust me when you just start you will break lots of things ranging from 10cent parts to 50 dollars parts. Master the driving skills and those will come down, then you can go get yourself a motoro. But If you plan to stick in this hobby and plan to do lots of racing I suggest saving the money and get a pro car. Then you can also get a better motor etc. I see too many people blowing money on a car that will never compete like the pro cars and waste so much money that they could have bought like 3 pro cars.

This has already been done. I stated before that I already have exp. w/the cars driving. I used my old mans TC3 and my cousins TMAXX all he time. This is simply MY first build. I already have a TB Evo. III Lined up so I will HAVE my beter car. Driving Exp. is not the question. I have that. I have little knowledge on electric cars and their parts.

I would improve the handling of the car before I changed the motor.

Get some oil damped shocks, stiffer springs, stabilizer bars and some other performance stuff.
Get the carbon drive and prop shafts, that will increase the cars speed.

If you want a good motor, get a Reedy or something like that, but before you start shopping decide if you want something stock or not, because even between stock motors there is a huge range alone.

That's not forgetting if you put a real hot motor in your car then you may have to change your ESC and of course higher capacity batteries are also needed just to get decent run times!!
But as Freakray said get your suspesion and drive train sorted before messing about with motors, thers's no point having a fast car if the drive train saps power 'cos it's heavy or there's too much friction present, or it handles like a bag of shit!!

My first car was a Kyosho Rayder with a 540 motor (slow) when I got good and I noticed that my car was much slower than my friends' RC10s and Losis... I got a 12 turn 50,000 RMP trinity motor and blew them all to hell...and also blew my differential, I had no money for a new one so I threw some epoxy in and made the differential solid, but then the car started to handle funny. I got used to it so continued to race with it but I kept blowing my resistor, by then I decided "no more resistors" so I drove it like that but to take off, the car burned too much rubber, I learned to control it but then I stared to shred my tires constantly, then one day I was driving so fast with no grip that my car skidded out and the right front wheel crashed into a wall and I saw my Rayder fly throught he air in two pieces, the chassis broke in half behind the front A arms. The moral of my story is...I don't know, just my first two years experience in RC racing.

How fast were you going to snap your chasis like that, ive never even heard of that.

p.s. liek the rest of the guys said, make sure your car can handle the new motor, and make sure you can handle teh speed. also decide if you want to go with a stock motor or modififed. Also, do not skimp on the esc, get a good one, LRP makes some of the best for racing. Any more questions, feel free to ask.

Originally posted by Psman32@af
How fast were you going to snap your chasis like that, ive never even heard of that.

maybe 40 mph, it was a plastic chassis.:cool: