I got hold of a nice NIB motor! It’s a Kyosho LeMans 240S that is modified and tuned by Trinity. It even has its one series number “95-168”. That I discover when I opened the bag and red the bi packed tow documents from Trinity! And I wonder if any one off you guys knows any thing more about this, wind etc…
That's pretty cool--I never knew Trinity used Kyosho Le Mans motors as the basis for some of their own motors. I wonder what the specs on that motor are? Turns, rpm...intriguing!
I have the same motor sitting here. I originally bought it for my 1987 RC10 project, but eventually found the proper Trinity Monster stock motor for the car. I probably won't use it now...
I want to say that the "Sprint" motor is a 17-double wind intended for modified 2wd and 4wd 7-cell off road. I'm not 100% positive, but that is my belief. It is also definitely a Trinity wound arm, which at that time would have probably been a "Big Jim" Greenmeyer-wound motor (Checkpoint). I'm going on memory here, so don't quote me on that.
BTW, Ernie Provetti own(ed) Trinity and EPIC stands for Ernest Provetti Importing Company. Team Epic is the new name of Team Trinity currently.
Eau Rouge wrote:I have the same motor sitting here. I originally bought it for my 1987 RC10 project, but eventually found the proper Trinity Monster stock motor for the car. I probably won't use it now...
I want to say that the "Sprint" motor is a 17-double wind intended for modified 2wd and 4wd 7-cell off road. I'm not 100% positive, but that is my belief. It is also definitely a Trinity wound arm, which at that time would have probably been a "Big Jim" Greenmeyer-wound motor (Checkpoint). I'm going on memory here, so don't quote me on that.
BTW, Ernie Provetti own(ed) Trinity and EPIC stands for Ernest Provetti Importing Company. Team Epic is the new name of Team Trinity currently.
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Thanks for the info “Eau Rouge”
BTW, are you interested to sell your motor to me, would fit nicely in my other Scorpion!
there is one seller on flea bay that has a butt load of these . originally they went in the 50 $ range but the seller has so many the value has gone down a tad. very nice vintage motor , thats for sure.
bdrmbully wrote:there is one seller on flea bay that has a butt load of these . originally they went in the 50 $ range but the seller has so many the value has gone down a tad. very nice vintage motor , thats for sure.
Thank you bdrmbully for the tip, I relay like this motor! So I located the guy, and purchase a few motor to a very reasonably price! They will be perfect to my Scorpions
drbelleville wrote:Didn't Ernie buy Kyosho motors because he did not want to be supplied by yokomo as everyone else was?
That sounds like a reasonable explanation! And if it is as Mad Racers says, that Trinity purchased the Kyosho motor plant to start making there own motors.
A local guru recently told me a story on this topic - he said Ernie and a young Joel Johnson (maybe 14 yrs-old or so) went to some Championships in Japan (1/12 scale on-road, I think) and Ernie was trying to procure a bulk batch of Kyosho motor canisters to make Trinity motors.
Kyosho was skeptical to provide canisters for a relatively unknown team (Trinity), until after the race - Joel had done so well that Kyosho sold Ernie the first 200 canisters, which of course became the first batch of aluminum endbell Trinity motors...
((I have one of these motors in red (called Trinity "Sprint") and one in gold (Trinity "Pure Gold").))
Hey guys,
I'm in the process a building a few of my favorite RC cars I couldn't afford as a kid (the Tamiya Hornet was as good as it got for me in the 80's). I'm kind of getting back into RC after about a 8-9 year break and am loving all of the...
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I went with the LeMans 240S 15.5T.
The tabs were tight but they just barely fit. The tabs on the 240S motors are turned opposite from the regular LeMans brushless motors. They are also an open U shape that allows you to route the wire to the motor...
I have a choice between these two motors for my Big Brute project. Wondering which would be best for this particular truck?
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The 05 stock was too slow for my tastes back when I was a young teen with my BB. Unless you want to keep it as it was the stock motor, maybe sell it and get something new with the money? I quickly upgraded to something more powerful. I don't know...
I'm jumping into brushless motors and lipo for the first time with my Rocky project. I'm planning on using this motor until (hopefully) the 480 comes out -
I'm interested in that ESC because it appears to...
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I have the Le Mans ESC with the 15.5T motor but my Turbo Optima re-re is painfully slow.
Just got this nice Kyosho Le Mans 240S motor NIB. What makes the motor different is this was sold from German brand Robbe so different packaging also the label says Robbe instead of Kyosho.
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It is a clip on iron tube for more torque and a Le Mans sticker with different design.
I love old stickers. :)
I recently picked up a job lot with a mate and I had my eye on these motors. Whilst they aren't mint new they are going to be used for some of my vintage Kyosho Optima runners.
All were stripped, cleaned then reassembled the best I could. Each has...
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That's true, I always got the sense of quality from Kyosho's cars, even at the lower price points. Maybe it was because they had the reputation of making serious race cars with the Optima & Ultima series and successors...Tamiya was never really...
I bought a lot of motors that included a few stock motors to use in stock class racing, and I got a Kyosho LeMans 480S motor in the deal. The endbell looks new, there hasn't been any motor wires soldered, besides the nicks on the front of the can,...
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If you dont want to put it in a shealfer.
Sell it. Should be enough to buy a new brushed motor.
Yes its a Mild mod motor but in its day was rather quick.
Its a 24t single with.80mm ga wire. Max revs 21 to 22ooo.
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