Trinity Monster Horsepower “Back to the Future”

March 21, 2011 · Posted in Off Road, rcLazy.com, retro, Trinity · by mark

Back in the 1980′s when hair was big and me and Simon had more of it, there was only one motor to run, the Trinity Monster Horsepower Joel Johnson Modified range. Winds were crazy fast like 14 doubles! They were super quick, brushed motors that would use up every milliamp from your 1200 SC cells. So much so, you actually had to adjust gear ratios to get the car to last 5 minutes.

Well those days of limited capacity are over and Trinity are back with a vengeance. I picked up a shiny new Trinity Monster Horsepower 8.5 from our friendly model shoppe rcLazy.com to replace the frankly too fast GM6.5 in my TRF201.

Opening the box reveals a very smart matt black motor and a senser lead to boot! Which was very fortunate as the original GM lead had just packed up on the 201.

Quick run round TORCH was promising with plenty of low end grunt but a bit outpaced on the straights.

Cue a little bit of timkering with the Speed Passion GT speedo and the car was like a rocket! Monster Hosepower indeed, so many beans the car flipped on the straight as the turbo charger kicked in. These things are very rapid and because I ‘only’ went 8.5 was lovely and smooth in it’s delivery.

Even Simon the stalwart mid motor driver commented how smooth the TRF201 with the Monster Horsepower 8.5 was.

Time will tell but initial impressions are top notch.

Trinity Monster Horsepower is back from the 80′s, thankfully mullets are not!