DF Sniper 45 T-Mono Build Target 100mph

[properchopper]

Solid build, clean and sturdy. Seventeen days 'till party time

[RaceMechaniX]

17 days till a magic show. What kind of magic who knows.................

[properchopper]

17 days till a magic show. What kind of magic who knows.................

Hopefully not the kind where things disappear

[RaceMechaniX]

I was thinking more along the lines of smoke and fireworks.

There is enough foam inside that she should be pretty bouyant unless it motors itself into the mud.

[Doug Smock]

Nice work Tyler.
Well if you don't meet your goal, we'll always think you should have!

Good luck!
Doug

[properchopper]

I was thinking more along the lines of smoke and fireworks.

There is enough foam inside that she should be pretty bouyant unless it motors itself into the mud.

I helped Mark drag the bottom for his boat last week. Got a pretty good feel for the bottom and it's very seriously more like quicksand. Easy to understand why boats don't come up, since like you mention, they apparantly keep traveling like a torpedo downwards with considerable momentum and can easily get stuck/impaled in the goo. My Cyber had to have hit the bottom at the last race 'cause it had mud in it when it (luckily) came up. Makes considering something like a scaled-down EPIRB [Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon] that full size boats use worth a thought. While we didn't find Mark's boat, we left the T-shaped drag device in the rowboat garage. At just about every SAWs I've been to, there's been a discussion, as you know, of dealing with lost boats. I'm going for a record with a boat that has been known to submarine & I'm thinking...thinking. I may just tape some Alka Seltzer tabs on or under the cowl if no better idea comes to mind.

[TotalPackage]

When do we get to see this bad boy run T?

[Anbjorn]

Tyler,

I am very much looking forward to se and hear about your test results.
You will probably beat me to the water with your Sniper as the water is still solid here.
I am also convinced that your boat with the adjustability of the strut will be faster than mine with fixed strut.

Anbjørn

[Fluid]

In 2002 at the FE SAWs in LA, one of the JAG riggers stuffed on Friday morning and disappeared. On Sunday evening Mark was dragging the bottom of Legg Lake and up popped the missing rigger! It was so well taped up that there was only an ounce or two of water inside, which is why it retained positive buoyancy. Two and a half days is a long time to be under.....


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[Punisher 67]

Awesome job Tyler , you have me really curious if the 100mph barrier can finally be broke..............

[RaceMechaniX]

Thanks for the compliments guys,
I may get a chance to test her next weekend, but it's unlikely due to some travel back east.

Tony, I have had the same thoughts of a EPIRB. Wouldn't it be nice to know where she went down and some signal to find the spot. As Mark well knows this usually happens when smoke starts rising from the bottom as the batteries go. Are you running your new mono or another boat for the record?

Thanks Anbjorn, If I get the hull running close to yours I think we'll be close.

Jay, I've seen similar occurences at Legg as well. Also seen quite a few boats go into the trees on the island and up on the shore. I had an amphibious trip once with my X hydro up on tree roots near the bridge on the far end. Lucikly no major damage and only a broken boom which was replaced the same day.

Thanks Peter, we'll see and I'm sure our roving reporter Tony will have some footage.

Tyler

[thomaslambo]

Great job Tyler, looking forward to some video, and thanks again for the help.

I'm building a boat for SAWS but it won't be ready in time for the April event....but I'm planning on attending anyway for the education (I live 10 minutes from LL and test their often on week days)

I know Tony will be at LL for the SAWS event, anyone else going to attend; I'd love to meet some of you guys in person and check out your boats?

[RaceMechaniX]

Thanks Thomas,

There will be a good size group of guys there inlcuding both Gas, FE and Nitro. A weekend spent at the SAWs talking to racers and seeing different designs is worth a year of searching online. Most of us will be out there Friday, Saturday and Sunday. There are probably about 20 of us who show up every event and we always welcome new faces.

I can guaruntee you'll see some 100, 110, 120 and even 130 mph runs if the weather holds (mostly riggers though).

Tyler

[Rich]

The idea behind the flooded stuffing tube is to allow vertical moving of the strut. If you just had the stuffing tube pass through the transom and it was a tight fit so it sealed the water then it would be impossible to allow for any strut adjustment. In nitro and gas boats we just make an oval hole in the back and leave it open for water to drain out. In the FE boats, we have to seal it, so we install a larger tube which the stuffing tube fits in. We epoxy the tube in the rear on the OD to seal the tube to the transom. In the front of the tube, we seal the stuffing tube to the ID of the big tube. Now we have a sealed tube, but with th extra length between where the stuffing tube is sealed and where we have the strut we have enough bend allowance in the stuffing tube to make strut adjustments. The stuffing tube is supported near the motor by the expoxy and its supported at the rear by the strut.

Hopefully that all makes sense.

Hey RaceMechaniX, can you tell me where to get the flood tube? I like this system and would like to try it on my next build instead of a stinger.

[Fluid]

Try below for carbon tubes. Top quality and service. Not cheap.

http://www.acp-composites.com/home.php?cat=4663

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