Wolf in Sheeps clothing

[roadrashracing]

what are you going to use for a cooling pick up? Putting one on the pack or one on the bottome to keep the stock look.

[gsbuickman]

Traxxas Villain IV

Make-A-Wake you read my mind, ha ha ha ha. As a matter of fact I picked up a sweet one owner villian iv today as well. as soon as it arrives, I'll shoot some pic's and get g' posted. Your righr, It's a sweet scaler looker too.

This one has a astroflite esc good for 4s, twin Octura props and matching Speed Gems motors already installled.
I'll run as is for now, Once I get my ul-1 and miss bud tied up, i'll start on her rtoo.

I'll be following this build, and thanks for the ideas.

[Make-a-Wake]

what are you going to use for a cooling pick up? Putting one on the pack or one on the bottome to keep the stock look.

Gonna use the stock black Villain pickups for the EX, two on the transom right at the vee.

[Make-a-Wake]

Make-A-Wake you read my mind, ha ha ha ha. As a matter of fact I picked up a sweet one owner villian iv today as well. as soon as it arrives, I'll shoot some pic's and get g' posted. Your righr, It's a sweet scaler looker too.

This one has a astroflite esc good for 4s, twin Octura props and matching Speed Gems motors already installled.
I'll run as is for now, Once I get my ul-1 and miss bud tied up, i'll start on her rtoo.

I'll be following this build, and thanks for the ideas.

Great....................lets get another one going!

[cenracer]

I'm just sitting back reading these posts while my boat is out at the painters getting the yellow touched up and a couple of coats of clear sprayed on as well.. I will get around to the motors and esc's soon enough.. its too cold on the east coast to do much with boats anyway so I have all winter to play.. Spent the last 3 says programming a quad copter and working out the electronics and testing of a FPV plane. seems the local government may be interested in purchasing this plane and helicopter or having one built for them to use in law enforcement. Not sure how they found out about it, but they have their ways.. for those that don't know.. FPV is a remotely flow plane flown thru a camera system with GPS navigation.. Cool stuff but can get very expensive .... they have a range up to about 10 miles... Sending one of these up in the air with issues is not a good ideal.. they are not small... this one is about 8 feet long..

[Make-a-Wake]

One whole driveline complete..........................tougher than it looks to get it all lined up and attatched. Made my shafts out of stainless 5mm rod. Stout gears mesh up real well. Teflon washer between u-joint and bearing where most of the thrust load is.

[Make-a-Wake]

Forgot i had to grind flat spots on the motors. Props are still in rough form.

Few shots of both drives completed:

[cenracer]

looks great... can't wait till I get mine under way.. I will be using the same setup as you.. this way I won't have any issues... The only thing different from mine is the props.. I am using the carbon graupner setup... unless its just that bad, then I will go to metal props..

[gsbuickman]

When you reamed out the holes for the larger drive shaft's, did you use bearing's there too ?. Or are the drive lines spinning on greased gaskets ?.
I say bearings, my pal says no bearings. What does he know ?, hes one of those rock crawler guys, he he he he he.

[Make-a-Wake]

There are bearings at each end of the larger brass stuffing tubes................the whole steel shaft is bearing supported. I ordered a Villain bearing set for the outdrives as well, there's a package on the table behind me, it may be them. So now the whole driveline will have bearings!

[Make-a-Wake]

Boca's came in.......................

Entire driveline is now bearing supported! Had to bore out the lowers on each outdrive to get them to 'pop' in, thought they were drop-ins...........................NOT.

Center picture, the left side is the stock brass bushing.

[cenracer]

Make a Wake... I'm a bit confused here... Will those bearings fit the stock outdrives? I would love to add those to mine as well.. I can measure the size to find them. Also, you got larger tubes.. What did you get.. basically, I need some hand holding here.. I don't know what you used.. Last question, are the bearings ok to use in the water. My experience with bearings is water and bearings don't mix. Are these ceramic? I should be getting my boat back from the painter in about 2 weeks.. Its not the best weather here so time isn't a big deal anymore.

[Make-a-Wake]

Make a Wake... I'm a bit confused here... Will those bearings fit the stock outdrives? I would love to add those to mine as well.. I can measure the size to find them. Also, you got larger tubes.. What did you get.. basically, I need some hand holding here.. I don't know what you used.. Last question, are the bearings ok to use in the water. My experience with bearings is water and bearings don't mix. Are these ceramic? I should be getting my boat back from the painter in about 2 weeks.. Its not the best weather here so time isn't a big deal anymore.

The Boca bearings we're supposed to fit right in based on the way they were advertised, but they didnt. The flange is the right size and stops the bearing from going all the way in as it should, but the O.D. of the bearing was larger than the OD of the brass bushing. I took a grinding type bit with my dremel and reamed the shaft hole out around the edge till the bearing pressed in firmly. I think i listed the size of the brass tubes earlier in the thread.................i'll have to go back and look, but the bearings for them were 5mm I.D. and 8mm O.D. and fit it with just a tiny, tiny bit of play but cant really pop out the way its set up. The bearings i got are all stainless and are not sealed but 'shielded' where crap wont get in 'em but water will.............no biggy, they'll just dry out and i have bearing oil to throw in there every now and then.

Gonna work on the ESC mounting and connectors here in a bit.......................may get her wet Sunday.

[Make-a-Wake]

Lookin' more like an RC boat on the inside now....................lots of wires and tubes!

I have the Dual ESC's one on top the other with some spongy bars between them for air space and to not squish the electronic innards. The bottom ESC is upside down with the square, flat cooling plate facing down. I went with the simplicity of Traxxas connectors on this 50+/- amp draw setup per motor. I have a pair of 4000 30c 3s batts that fit in perfectly where the six cell nimh's were meant to be. I think its lookin' pretty 'clean'.

The water pickups didn't come in today................if i get her out tomorrow, it will be for a couple of 30 second passes just to see what she does..............the motors wont be hugely taxed so the heat will be minimal.

[Make-a-Wake]

Short vid of first fire up bench test.