Reedy Modifieds - which one would be your favorite?

[Phin]

I do like the original green label Ultra Reedy motors ...

Just an FYI, OG green label motors...the one's without the gold fins on the endbell, were not part of the Ultra series. Ultra series came out when Yokomo upgraded their motors c.1987/88.

My yellow label Ultra is a blue dot, and the dot still is at the can.
For the Edinger motors I have the green label, yellow label and red label but none of them have a dot. Not sure if they ever had a dot.

My yellow label Ultra doesn't have a dot, but my green label Edinger non-ultra has a silver dot.

[V12]

Regarding the Esprit series I had several of them but sold all. Maybe because they are no modifieds.

The Yokomo motors with the golden heatsink actually were known at Wet Mag motors.
Losi kept with that name. Reedy went with Ultra.

[juicedcoupe]

Regarding the Esprit series I had several of them but sold all. Maybe because they are no modifieds.

To my knowledge, they were all mods. Some had bushings and fixed timing, but still not stocks.

[winner_evo]

Yes, I have an esprit E-S Ultimate 2 in my Graphite Team car & it is a full modified with ball bearings & adjustable timing.

[Tang]

I'm starting to collect the Reedy Mr series motors now. Would love to snag a BK Select at some point, but I'm not holding my breath

[V12]

Specs for stock motors changed over time. There are lots of stock motors which came with ball bearings and adjustable timing.
But a full modified motor needs a handwound armature and Esprit motors are not handwound.

[juicedcoupe]

But a full modified motor needs a handwound armature and Esprit motors are not handwound.

The vast majority of modifies ever made were machine wound. I have several 11-14 turn machine winds that nobody would remotely consider calling a stock (one 12T has fixed timing).

[V12]

Actually it´s not important if you call such motor stock, machine wound or budget motor.
But a machine wound never will be a modified.

Esprit might be similar as Trinity Speedworks. Those are budget motors as well.

[dinglem]

I have quite a number of Reedy modifieds many of which are from my own racing days rather than having been collected more recently. Just reading the previous posts I can confirm that my yellow label Reedy Ultra was actually a Yellow Dot. Whilst not specified as an off-road motor I ran it on short, tight grass tracks in my 870c. It went very well. Here it is pictured with my Red Dot.

I have a few Igarashi Reedy modifieds too, two of which are ex-Walt Bailey motors so have quite some pedigree.

I also have a Reedyfied Bolink Igarashi, built for Bolink by Mike Reedy although i cannot seem to lay hands on a decent photo of that.

Similarly the Schumacher Reedy motors. My first one, a Silver Dot, was like lightening in my Mardave Meteor.

Rarest has to be the BK Select though.

[jcwrks]

But a full modified motor needs a handwound armature and Esprit motors are not handwound.

No such thing as a "full" modified. The machine wound armatures were typically referred to as "budget mods". The Esprit was a budget mod.

But a machine wound never will be a modified.

Not sure where you read or heard that, but it is completely false.

[V12]

Useless discussion about wanting a mass produced motor being called a modified.

The topic is Reedy Modifieds, nothing else.

[juicedcoupe]

The topic is Reedy Modifieds, nothing else.

It sounds like you weren't specific in what you were asking.

If you specifically wanted "hand wound Reedy" motors, you should have said so.

But you said Reedy modifieds, and even Reedy classified some machine wound motors as "modifieds". Per the Reedy add above, all of the Esprit motors are classified as modifieds.

[V12]

Could you please tell me where Mike Reedy called an Esprit series motor being a modified?

I checked the ads for the Esprit series and there are some samples mentioned as "Ultimate".
I can see the words "modified racing".
Well of course you could use such motor for racing at the modified class. But it doesn´t say "modified motor".
And that´s a difference.

[juicedcoupe]

Could you please tell me where Mike Reedy called an Esprit series motor being a modified?

I checked the ads for the Esprit series and there are some samples mentioned as "Ultimate".
I can see the words "modified racing".
Well of course you could use such motor for racing at the modified class. But it doesn´t say "modified motor".
And that´s a difference.

If you want to be technical, most hand would motors weren't "modified" either, especially not the ones that were bought in stores. They were built that way from the start, from a blank armature.

But machine wound mods were classified as such by pretty much everyone (except you).

But I would classify a true hand built motor as a "tuner" motor. But there were also stock class tuner motors that were actually modified in some manner.

[juicedcoupe]

This is kinda like talking about motor oil.

Many people don't know that the vast majority of synthetic motor oils aren't actually synthetic. They are just high quality conventional oils that meet synthetic specs. But that doesn't prevent them from being sold as such.

If an oil doesn't cost at least ~$20 a quart, it probably isn't synthetic.