Modify L motor for increased torque + RPM possible / how?

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Hello,

I am building model with 2 L motors which has terrible performance (low top speed and acceleration). I want to keep purist look. How modify Lego L motor for increased torque and RPM? Many thanks.

[Kelkschiz]

How good are you with electronics? The easiest way to do what you want is to increase the voltage (and disable the safety features of the motor). You may want to take a look at Philo's website: http://www.philohome.../motorcomp.htm. Of course increasing the voltage and disabling of the safety featues has some negative effects on the durability, and may result in a broken motor. It's also not a purist way of doing things. A purist way would be to combine the power of multiple motors or making the MOC itself lighter with less friction.

Edited September 27, 2015 by Kelkschiz

[Epic Technic]

My best and 100% purist method is just get a buggy motor and use it instead. It has great performance, IMO it is definitely worth the price. Or you can do it this way but it does seem complicated.

[Kristof]

I have no experience with doing such thing but just in general I'd say it's pretty inefficient approach - trying to modify something which is substantially made not to be modified... not sure if that is worth any effort.

[Boxerlego]

I gave this some thought about a year ago or two and I know just the way to go about it if you want to keep the purist look for your motor but you will haft to open it up if you looking for more torque for the motor. Now here is what you do, Your going to need to upgrade the motor magnets in the L motor to neodymium motor magnet and doing that will certainly up the torque for the motor. You will haft to open up the motor and get inside to the internal motor to have access and to remove the motor Magnets to replace them. I never have done this so there is a possibility that this could not work. There are neo motor magnets (Link: https://www.apexmagnets.com/xmod-motor-magnets) that are made for motors that fit for Xmods RC cars (Link: http://atomicmods.com/xmods/) they have small motors so the possibility that the motors could be the same size for a replacement is very good. Who knows you might not even need to take out the motor magnets from the L motors and you could just replace the L motor with the Xmod motor. Just like how this guy in the video does with the M motor.