Burnt up stock motor?

[Racerx336]

I finally got my MRC fully built with the new chassis, weighted wheels, and 1.9 flatirons. The truck is just awesome and makes every section easy. I am still running the stock motor though, and it seems to stall pretty easy now. At the end of a run, you can really smell the motor working hard. I had a fully charged pack in it and it started acting like the battery was dying about a minute or so into the run. Pulled the battery out and put it on the charger and it was at 7.8. So I know the battery is fine. Have you guys had problems with the stock motor on a fully prepped rig? Is the HH mini torque master a much better alternative?

[Failedabortion]

I never have a problem with mine on 1.9 flat irons and weighted wheels. Maybe something is binding?

[Racerx336]

Already checked that out. Everything seems ok as far as binding goes.

[chrisjlittle]

The stock motor is kind of a cheapo, not really all that great. The HH motor is really nice, but a touch slow for my taste. The reedy stump puller works well also and is a bit faster than the HH, a lot of locals are using it and like it. I'm using the losi mini slider motor with a 12t pinion (stock is 14t) from a RC18, which is also really nice. Very fast, more torque than stock, and it has a real brush hood-it's rebuildable. For the money it's really tough to beat, though both of the others I listed will work as well.

[sirbikealot7]

just fried mine yesterday with the flat irons. got it bound up and it just died. bought another for$15 from the lhs until i get an fxr and a holmes torque master

[BJoe]

Just put the Mini-Slider motor in mine with the smallest press on gear Losi offers, Jetboat swore he saw the tires balloon at the comp Saturday