Clamping a Feigao motor

[Rtsbasic]

Would it be safe to clamp a Feigao motor like this?

http://www.rcuniverse.com/forum/upfiles/110398/Wr55623.jpg

I'm concerned about denting the can on bad landings so I'd wrap a bit of thin foam around it, and it uses 4 screws to clamp the motor so the force is pretty distributed, but I'm still not sure if its a good idea or not.

The guy who owns that truck has offered to make me a mount like that to hold the motor in place on my RC10GT for a good price. I know its got a pretty high center of gravity but when I have more money spare in the future I can always replace it with a TC4 mount system.

Cheers.

[tdkclass]

I can't see too much there but have you thought about buying one of mikes heat sinks?
http://www.rc-monster.com/prodimages/rcmonster/clamplg.gif

They seem to work pretty good for this purpose...

[tcolesen]

The heatsinks only provide cooling and hold on the rear endbell.
That motor clamp might work, it might not. I would be it weighs a lot though, and would require more work than a standard mount, not to mention the higher COG. A standard mount with an angle piece would work excellent for what you need.

(P.S., I am MetalMan over at RC-Monster).

[Rtsbasic]

tdkclass, I am farmilar with Mikes heatsinks but they do different things..

MetalMan, I can get the mount made up for $10 from someone with access to a machine shop so as a temp measure until I can afford $50 for a TC4 mount system which I think would be best and very clean, I also need to get the chassis under a drill press to get the holes made with any accuracy. I think this "clamp" might work as a short term option.

It apparently doesn't weigh much, it looks like it does but it doesn't exactly have to be top grade alloy to work well. Its less work than any other mount simply beacuse it bolts onto the existing motor mount so no drilling required to mount it.

I think I'll give it a go, it may not be the best solution but it'll do for now until I can afford a decent solution.

Attached is a better picture of just the mount, the bottom peice is the nitro engine mount already in the car so its just the top 2 peices that I'd be getting milled.

[tcolesen]

I think you found a very good temporary clamp! I didn't realize that it uses the stock engine mounts (you have them, right?). It should do well enough. The wort that could happen is it could throw off the gear mesh and strip the spur gear - not a big deal.

[Rtsbasic]

I have the stock motor mount which this will bolt straight to :) It looks very secure so shouldn't strip spurs too often.

Thanks for your help accross forums mate.

[kufman]

Looks like it has a lot of surface area to it so i don't think it would dent the motor car. The mount that i made does not use the stock motor mounts and would require more modifications to the chassis.

[MicroDiladum]

Mabye you could also get some heatsinks milled into it to take some weight away and add some heat dissapation.

Only problem I see is how would you adjust gear mesh? The motor only can move in and out. I guess the stock nitro motor mount has some adjust ability, but does it have enough to allow use of diff pinions and proper mesh?

[Rtsbasic]

Apparently the nitro motor mount can move around enough to set the gear mesh and allow a limited choice of pinions/spurs. I can always make these holes a bit bigger.

Good idea about getting the heatsinks milled into it.