Carbon shocker build

[kfxguy]

Thanks!

[kfxguy]

Put the top on last night with the windshield decal. Looks like a copy of my Rivercat I lost. She looks sharp. I'm going to paint the rest of the boat this weekend. I have a trip out of town Saturday that I'll be running the boat where I'm going on its maiden. Not a big area but be able to test it on 6s at least.

[kfxguy]

Something came in the mail too....







Those aren't all for me. Actually got four of them in for builds but one ended up becoming mine for the labor on a build.

[iridebikes247]

The windings come out of the can it looks like? Few years ago I had 3 1530s the motor leads were 12-13 gauge and soldered to the motor.

[kfxguy]

The windings come out of the can it looks like? Few years ago I had 3 1530s the motor leads were 12-13 gauge and soldered to the motor.

Yes the windings come out the can. Notice the new rubber boots that protect the wires. The new motors come like this.

[kfxguy]

So to keep this thread updated and document my progress I'll post here some of my findings. I posted another thread with a couple videos so I won't repeat that.

The 1527 that was supposed to be a custom wound 1650kv version ended up being 2900kv. So the boat uncontrollable, I thought I'd start out on lower voltage (6s) which was way too much for that kv but would have been perfect on 1650kv. Called neu today and they are taking care of that. Also, drove like poo because the rudder I chose was too small. I wanted to go with speedmaster stuff but there was either way too big or just barely too small. Nothing inbetween. So I chose smaller because it would fit the transom. Well it would flip. Flip around. Quirky. You name it. Not fun to me to be dealing with the speed and the quirkiness. I've been talking to Harry over at speed master for a few weeks now and been ordering his struts and rudders here lately. Nice stuff. Monojeff turned me on to it. Anyway, Harry is sending me a rudder that I can make work and look factory still (I'm picky) for now. He's planning on making an inbetween size rudder during winter after we talked about it for a while today. That will fill a big void for 32" to 38" or so monos and cats. I will say that the rudders flow lots of water and are fast. So I'm sold. I'll update what I'm doing for rudder by the weekend. I also put the 1500kv 1530 in it to run it on 8s. I talked to mr Jim tonight and he was asking what props I wanted to try next. He's casting some new stuff next week so I'm getting him to do some 1916-17-45's and some 2015-17-45's for me to try out. Ought to be interesting as I've had lots of good luck with his props lately. Think the 1530 won't have a 2 stroke like power band either like the 1527 did. You could tell when it started to turn on and it would just flip the boat instantly. It didn't start turning on till it got to 90mph. Lol. That's not going to work. So I'll update this some more in the next few days.

[kfxguy]

Got some pics to post. Must admit, she's pretty even tho she's in some ugly water lol






My very first pass. More or less a functioning pass to see if everything was working properly. I did squeeze the trigger a little and then it died (killed a battery because the incorrect motor was sent to me)





After going home and getting another battery. Still could not get into it all the way. Was just too violent. Found out why later that evening.



Sitting pretty (still not done though, I have more paint work to do. I just had to get it in the water)





O man.....

[kfxguy]

That's a sexy rear lol







1530 beast is in it

[zooma]

Hi Travis,

What receiver are you using? I am still having range problems with the Spektrtum SR410 in a CF Ariane 2 hull. My RX is right under the deck at the antenna mast. Are you using a separate BEC or RX batt.

[kfxguy]

Hi Travis,

What receiver are you using? I am still having range problems with the Spektrtum SR410 in a CF Ariane 2 hull. My RX is right under the deck at the antenna mast. Are you using a separate BEC or RX batt.

I always use a bec. Make sure antenna is out hull. I'm using a sr210 receiver.

[kfxguy]

Here's a video just because

[srislash]

You know, I really dig the green on CF. The tail on this one has sure worked out nice.

[kfxguy]

Thanks. It does look really good, especially in person. I need to finish painting it but I'm trying to find a font that looks right on the side. I did find one I really like but it's got too Much extra stuff coming off of it to trace and use. I want to paint "shocker" on it and I was going to cut a template to mask it off. Here's one of the fonts I like. I've been searching for something like this..no luck

[srislash]

That would look sooo good.

[dmitry100]

kfxguy: Why not twins?

Btw, what is 2 stroke like power band?