DF Sniper 45 T-Mono Build Target 100mph

[RaceMechaniX]

Peter,

It was an Octura X572 will a little cup added and almost full diameter.

Tyker

[Doug Smock]

Wow 450 amps and 76 mph. Was she running wet or just that heavy?

Congrats on the record!
Doug

[properchopper]

Here's the boat from a year ago carving the buoys (and looking fine) on 8S :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5pd683KmRE

[T.S.Davis]

Nice to see a boat built that can take a stuff at that speed if it happens. Really nice build.

[RaceMechaniX]

Wow 450 amps and 76 mph. Was she running wet or just that heavy?

Congrats on the record!
Doug

Thanks Doug, she is just that heavy somewhere around 25lbs RTR. The boat runs pretty wet on 8S and I only got to run 10S once. On that run(the first maiden run in SAW trim) the sniper looked and sounded like it was going to break the sound barrier on the run up right before it flipped. The amperage was through the roof!


Tony,

That video is of the AM conquest cat. Close, but you can see the blue bottom on the cat as it goes around.

TG

[Make-a-Wake]

Hey Tyler, I notice your rudder setback is quite far................what is the measurement of your setback, and does it help in cornering, seems like it would............Thanks!

[RaceMechaniX]

It is a 6" setback for the rudder. It was mounted deep to aid in turning and stability when planning on the ride pad and prop.

[SlickZERO]

Well explained

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.

It does. Thanks for taking the time to explain. The pictures helped too. Now I get it.