pic: A nikko RC car, modified

[Andy A.]

Just to clear some things up-

I did this up for a friend, who was disappointed with the performance of the car and wasn't really to attached to car. He won it. His only request was that I keep the body unmodified, because he thought it was spiffy.

So, using what I had around the house and some things from our workshop at Jame's house, I put it together. The lack of a fan on the Victor is not an issue, really. I had to remove it for fitment reasons, since I was not allowed to modify the body. The fan, in this use was simply dead weight. The stock motor probably spun much faster then the FP motor, and so the transmission was geared down very low. The end result was that the car wasn't actually faster then originally, it just had about 6 times the torque and full steering. Because the fp motor was never running at a fraction of it's designed load, I didn't think that the Victor would be passing more then 20 amps at the outside. The victor is in no danger at all. Honest. It still works.

Actually, the FP motor was the second motor I had swapped in. The first I had put in was a bit smaller but had much higher rpm. I acutally ran it in that version for a while, and it was working out all right. In retrospect, I should have stuck with it, because I think that the FP motor's pinion gear didn't mesh as well as needed, and that is what really killed the tranny. The extra preformance was nice though. I am still debating rehabilitating it and getting her running again.

-Andy A.