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360st was my 1st after market motor back in the 80s besides bag motors. I remeber it having huge balls in my stone stock Ultima bag then, wish i hadnt blown all my money on my current restos and i would buy one just to have, hell who knows, Thumbs cutn a fat hog in the ass these days, maybe he will buy me one

If you wanted a beast motor, you would've loved the 240SB on 8.4V. 30,000+ RPM of bearinged, brushed brute force. The only Le Mans motor that revved higher was the newer SPA 240WS. The 360 Gold was a real stump-puller too. If you ran any of those, you probably wouldn't be choosing ST's for your must-have list...except maybe the 240ST.

I saved this picture years ago, oh to have that collection:

I hada 240WS Spa in the Ultima. It was cool but i still think the 240st was better performance/$

I'm finding this really hard to decide, I'm a fan of all the LeMANS motors, so picking 3 is quite tough, how about:
240S - Red is faster
480S - Blue looks awesome
240SB - I have 1 NIB

Honourable mentions to:
240T - I have 1 NIB
240ST - I have 1
360ST - I have 1

Real decent voting, i admit that 480S pops!

A few years ago, since I had the soldering iron out, I went on a vintage motor resto kick. I did some mix & match with some of them as I was missing parts, and the previous owner of the 480S I acquired did a terrible solder job and melted the blue plastic endbell pretty badly. I put a spare 240SB comm and 480 Gold aluminum endbell I had lying around (with bearings) on one of the 480S motors, it probably runs more like a 240SB than a 480S now. The other 480S I replaced the melted blue endbell with a spare plastic endbell. I got the almost NIB 240SB and 240SB parts on eBay for $15 years ago. Score!

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Nice selection!

Thanks, coxbros1...I'd love to add the green 480T and red 240S to the collection eventually.

480T simply because it's green. I wanted one even though it was wound for eight minute races. I knew I could drop the 240S armature into it for more speed.

480S is my second choice once again based on the colour blue.

360PT had some grunt as it's a 550 motor. My older brother had one in his Fox. Watching him gun the throttle and seeing the Fox lift it's front wheels
under acceleration was awesome for a young fella.

Cool story on that 360pt/fox

Thought I’d do a quick stocktake of my LeMans Motors:
1 x 240SB NIB
1 x 240T NIB

2 x 240ST 1 in Optima, 1 in Turbo Mid SE
1 x 360ST in Turbo Optima

And I thought I’d have a look at the Pegasus that I have had for years awaiting a tidy up and too my surprise




A 480T . Will pull it out some day soon and give it a tidy up, it’s too nice to be sitting in the back of a Pegasus I feel

I also have the modern LeMans 490 brushed motor sitting in my re-re scorpion

*edit - whoops, also better go check the Ultima Outlaw truck, can’t remember what that has in it
** 2nd edit - not a LeMans but still pretty

You can count the Super Stock 20 and 34 as Le Mans motors Kym. It's on the instructions that come with the motors.

My votes go to the following:

- 480Gold - because this was the first one I had... one of my dad's friend who was very wealthy and doing LOTS of RC gave it to me as an unasked present when I was a young teen... it ran on my Monster Beetle for ages before the brushes were too short to even reach the comm. Of course I had no idea what happened when the car stopped My Dad's friend passed away a few years ago, R.I.P. I'm forever grateful. No idea where the mill has gone since... it's been more than 3 decades.

- SPA 240WS - baddest badboy on the block. I have one somewhere... I think.

- 360Gold - big block, alloy head, tanfastic looks. Legend (edit... said PT... but really meant gold, with the alloy head... d'uh)

Excellent writeup! I concur on the 360pt being a legend, maybe i should change my vote

360-PT - I used to run [a borrowed] one in my Tamiya BigWig on a tight/bumpy dirt oval, brought home many trophies!
480-Gold - just looks sweet!
360-Gold - Mmm Gold...