Rebuilding my BlackJack

[CodeRed225]

I know its nothing to exciting and its been done many times, but I thought I would start a build thread for my BJ 26 rebuild. There's a lot of smart guys on here so I figured some input would be helpful. This my first build so suggestions and criticism is welcome.

I bought this boat brand new a few years ago, started out with nmah batteries, 4s lipos soon after, then 6s. I can't believe the stock electronics hung as long as they did. I blew the esc first time out this year and the boat needed fiberglass repair so I decided to rebuild it. Here we go.

Charred ESC
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I stripped everything off the boat and started sanding
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I filled in the last step in the hull with bondo
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Sorry for the weird lines in the pics.

-Red

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The hatch was getting busted up and I never liked it anyway so I cut out the old canopies
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Fibeglassed over them
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And started fixing stress cracks, filled in the old turn fin holes
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More cracks, more sanding
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I ordered a seaking 180 and leopard 4074 to put in here. Now I know the motor is probably to big, but hear me out. I know the problems with this hull. I had a hard to keeping it on the water before. My goal is 60 mph with this setup and I think I can do it. If I can't or when I get bored with not being able to max out the motor. I will put this boat on the shelf and upgrade hulls. It's my whole weakest link theory. Upgrade little at a time.

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I'm laying down extra layer of fiberglass everywhere I can get at to reinforce things
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I chopped up glass and mixed with resin for the hard to get at spots
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Another layer of resin on the hatch
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I'm not real happy with how that is coming out, I might try to order a replacement for it. We'll see.

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I got the motor and esc
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Did a mock-up
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The ESC is to tall so I had to cut and hack on the radio tray to lower it.
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That's it for now. Hopefully I will be ready for primer soon. I'm not much of a paint guy so this could be interesting.

-Red

[Skullcracken]

Will the esc and motor wires reach?

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No they won't. I just extended them today.

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I started painting today. Went pretty well until the end. Here's some pics.
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I did a couple coats of primer and I was impress how it turned out.

[lenny]

That was a bad idea to do,
Just turn the esc so the esc motor wires are facing the motor.

No they won't. I just extended them today.

[Heaving Earth]

I agree with Lenny, not a good idea really. I would mount it in front of the motor. Plenty of room up there.

[lenny]

That would work to,
And have esc nipples going port to starboard,
Than spin motor wires to be on top and have esc caps facing the motors end.
Just may need to extend servo wires for that.
Also you should have the back nipple on the water jacket on top and than exit the hull.

[CodeRed225]

Okay, I'm gonna play around with mounting it different. What about extending the power wires? Bad idea as well? They don't give you much room to work with.