So i went to fit up the new V2 Turnigy 80-100 130kv motor this morning
all happy i would be riding again in an hour or less only to find Turnigy have gone and changed
the spacing between the motors mounting holes, they are ~3-4mm narrower than the old V1 motors.
Long story short, if you have a Recumpence drive and its been made to fit the older Turnigy it will not fit
the new motors, I can't see a way around this either, there isn't enough 'meat' on the redeciton drive mounting
to 'relieve/re-drill etc...to make the V2 Motor fit.
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If you tilt the motor diagonally two holes will line up, however i wouldn't
recommend mounting these motors with only two bolts (you will need longer
bolts than provided also the holes are recessed lower than the old motors)
The 12mm shaft of these big Turnigys leaves little room between the gap for the shaft in the reduction drive and
the mounting holes, my plan of attack is to entirely fill the elongated mounting hole of the reduction drive
with Aluminium Devcon and then re-drill the mounting holes, other than having Matt make a new
piece i see no other easy option :-( One could obviously drill and re-tap the motor end plate but
getting the stator off to do so would require heating the shit out of the motor likely damaging the
windings...
Back with update on this tomorrow (will take overnight for the Devcon to set)
KiM
p.s I have advised Matt of this situation in case he wasn't aware so when new customers order Matt will be aware of the problem.
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I have heard much of the plans for his future custom frames, you guys are going to be blown away.
Man, that thing sounds soooo quiet, is it really stealth Kim? Not even close to yours is it? So for anything over 20 it looks like standard mt bike wheelbase is no go at these power levels, do you guys have any suggestion for up to 30 mph? What would be ideal wheelbase?
