I have an 18T....my local track is thinking of trying them out for carpet oval. What would be a good choice for a motor without going to Brushless?

Thanks,
BAR 26

Another thing is, what kind of set-up would i use for an RC18T for Oval? (flat carpet)

Why do you want to change the motor?

I plan on getting a F/T 18T, and it doesn't come with a motor, and instead of buying one, and finding out i will have to buy another, i would rather just buy the better one in the first place lol

i know the orion baja motor is fast, but i don't know about carpet oval.

I ran the orion big block and it ran just as fast as my brushless if you gear it right

I bought a Reedy Mini-Max modified when i bought my F/T 18T and it worked great until it let the magic smoke out and melted the endbell during a race. The Orion Baja is basicly the same motor and works great too. I ran one of them after the Reedy. I now have a Mamba brushless system for it and it works even better.

trinity 16 or 14 t cobalt or reedy 19 or 17 t mini mod. off road id stay brushed ..oval is going to depend on a few things.

i kno u don't want to go brushless, but i was practicing carpet oval once. and a little boy had an rc18t, and was smoking my evader st. he was running a mamba brushless system and still had great control.

yeah the mamba comp x is just completely wicked fast,

........ off road id stay brushed ..oval is going to depend on a few things.


Just curious why you'd stay with a brushed motor if running offroad.

RC

I have seen people run the mamba brushless system on dirt, It didnt seem to be to bad, but it all depends on how you set the truck up.

most of what i see in tight places a brushed motor drives better. at a couple off road tracks where i have been the brushed drivers usually win. now i have seen the race jeremy kortz ran at the east coast nats he was wicked fast but for the most part from what i see/tried as far as driveability brushed is better. at 1/18 offroad nats fastest car was brushed going by laps. (i know it was carpet but is an example still)

i race with BAR 26 and i have an rc 18t with the mamba comp x kit that i bought and i had it at our track and it was fun and i think we could handle when its one person at a time on the track but when ya get 3 or 4 on the track i dont know if we could run it or not but i would be willing to try it but its more money to. so i think thats why the people at our track wanna run brushed

If u go with a mamba dont get the mamba comp. X pakg. because it is just way too powerful for the oval , it just gets killed if you hit a wall at all but great offroad.