R-42 Twin Beast

[oscarel]

You also may want to have the tubes a little smaller to give some meat around the edges of the hull, you shouldn't need to move them too much.

[srislash]

Hi Shawn,
What if you put spacers on each side of the strut in between the mount bracket ? You could get side to side adjustments on the strut also.

This is a good plan as I think there is a little something something to where the props hit the water at the tunnel. Good plan Chris and Brian. I'll see what I can work out. I am planning on having a bit of give to the stuffing tube.

[srislash]

You also may want to have the tubes a little smaller to give some meat around the edges of the hull, you shouldn't need to move them too much.

You mean the flood tubes? I have matching sets of props from 40mm to 55mm. You should see my box. OK, that sounded inappropriate

Hi Shawn,
Please post pic's of your flood tube setup when you get there. This idea is new to me and I'm not sure how it works. I've seen Rockstar's pic's of his set up on his big mono but I believe he did a quick write up and there were no detailed pic's of how to set it up and I'm not sure I understand advantage/disadvantages of it. Thanks JJ.

Duly noted John, these ones will be different from the one that I put in my Bling Rocket. More like Joel's but not quite so 'fixed'.

[oscarel]

You mean the flood tubes? I have matching sets of props from 40mm to 55mm. You should see my box. OK, that sounded inappropriate

Yeah, not sure I want that visual!! And you'll probably need some larger props, I was up to 457's.

[Fella1340]

I was thinking you would want your strut ajustability at 90 degrees or "square" to the ride pad. Even if it means knocking the corner off the strut mount and drilling the hole higher to move things in some to take advantage of the entire flooded tube.
Is there some advantage achieved having them "splayed" that I'm missing?

[srislash]

Not really a advantage or disadvantage with the small amount of angle. I was merely thinking cosmetics but let's face it, there is nothing I can do to make the back of this boat look like anything but 'business'.

[RandyatBBY]

I like the idea of splayed and slotted for adjust ability, and run them and see the effect.

[srislash]

I like the idea of splayed and slotted for adjust ability, and run them and see the effect.

Trash, I kind of have the opportunity to experiment a bit here with a little extra time spent now.

[Chrisg81983]

Hey Shawn whats up ? Looking good so far !!!! I ran twin 1717's in a few boats and,i will tell you one thing. You will be entirely happy with the power they can produce. I am currently building a sprint cat with two 1717 and etti 220's. If you need any pics let me know and I will send them your way.

[srislash]

Thanks Chris, So you have a very similar build on the go Chris, way cool. Should be able to corner good with these at a decent clip too.

I got holes drilled for hardware.
I don't know what happened yesterday but I went to get a proper drill bit and run boats and next it was dark and bedtime.

[olwarbirds]

Shawn, that is going to be a nice setup. Wish I had the room on the transom of my Fantasm to do the same, I would much rather go with the adjustability of struts over stingers and the diff in $.... DJ

[srislash]

Shawn, that is going to be a nice setup. Wish I had the room on the transom of my Fantasm to do the same, I would much rather go with the adjustability of struts over stingers and the diff in $.... DJ

You could open the top a bit and mount struts to floor of the transom overhang. Then silicone hatches over the cutouts. Up to the task? This would get the adjustability and be waayyy cool.

Sorry, just kinda popped into my head.

[srislash]

I got everything layed out on my template square(except for the splay), set it on and started drilling. Used a UNI bit for the flood tube holes



And then got to mounting hardware finally today. Yes one side has a 'short strut' and the other is a 'long'. I haven't decided which to use though I am leaning toward the 'long'. Even though Andy recommended keeping everything 'tight' to the transom. He actually claims they handle real well as a single and the strut mounted on the floor of the tunnel. Anyone tried this?

[olwarbirds]

Shawn, thats looking good... Be interesting to try each strut setup and see the results...Thats the prob with the transom overhang design of my Fantasm, it really does limit what and how things get mounted. I am trying to figure out how to do what you suggested...

[Rocstar]

Looking good Shawn.


Add some extra caps to those controllers. Mine get pretty hot when pushed hard. I added a few to help out.
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