Vortex34 Hyper Sport Hydro

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Top Secret Close-Up Spy Photo : (CF scrap, grommet)

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Man, that is beautiful! The grommets really finish off the masterpiece.

[properchopper]

Man, that is beautiful! The grommets really finish off the masterpiece.

Aw shucks....

[Fluid]

Raced my DF Vortex 34 for the first time with its current setup last weekend, even won a heat. TP 4060/1950, ICE200 A/C ESC and an ABC 2015*17, with an air dam and a deep strut setting (1.5" below the hull bottom). It ran stably at 60 mph into a 10 mph headwind in 1" - 2" chop. Surprised me, although I did have to slow a bit going around the choppy downwind turn - but so did everyone else if they wanted to stay upright. Lots of fun! Now I need to decorate the blank yellow hull...



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[properchopper]

Raced my DF Vortex 34 for the first time with its current setup last weekend, even won a heat. TP 4060/1950, ICE200 A/C ESC and an ABC 2015*17, with an air dam and a deep strut setting (1.5" below the hull bottom). It ran stably at 60 mph into a 10 mph headwind in 1" - 2" chop. Surprised me, although I did have to slow a bit going around the choppy downwind turn - but so did everyone else if they wanted to stay upright. Lots of fun! Now I need to decorate the blank yellow hull...







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That's good to hear Especially in HOTMBC territory where there seems to mostly be windy/choppy conditions I'd imagine that the 34" P-Sports might fare better than the standard supply of 30" P-Sports. Wave of the future (no pun intended - OK maybe).

Mine will get some more water time soon. Got Vids ?

[ray schrauwen]

Raced my DF Vortex 34 for the first time with its current setup last weekend, even won a heat. TP 4060/1950, ICE200 A/C ESC and an ABC 2015*17, with an air dam and a deep strut setting (1.5" below the hull bottom). It ran stably at 60 mph into a 10 mph headwind in 1" - 2" chop. Surprised me, although I did have to slow a bit going around the choppy downwind turn - but so did everyone else if they wanted to stay upright. Lots of fun! Now I need to decorate the blank yellow hull...



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Would a 1521 1.5D be on par with that TP 4060?

[properchopper]

Would a 1521 1.5D be on par with that TP 4060?

I replaced the 1521 1.5D in my Cheetah with the 4060. Extremely pleased with the results. Truth is the 4070 in my Vortex is probably overkill (but us girls just wanna have fun......)

[Fluid]

Ray, the Neu 1521/1.5 D should be comparable. I have one in my Cheetah but haven't tried it in the Vortex. Frankly, the last two new Neus I bought were big disappointments. One just didn't run right and went back to Neu for repair - with about five minutes of run time on it - and cost me another $75. The other seemed to run okay in a SAW setup - for about 30 seconds before the ESC turned into a flaming pile of goo. I figured the setup was too hot so it dropped down in prop size and tried again. After 30 seconds, another pile of goo; the motor had a shorted winding and took out the ESCs. That was one EXPENSIVE motor! After a decade of promoting them, no more Neus for me.

Tony, no vids since everyone was running in the heats or CDing. Maybe next time.....

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[Brushless55]

I replaced the 1521 1.5D in my Cheetah with the 4060. Extremely pleased with the results. Truth is the 4070 in my Vortex is probably overkill (but us girls just wanna have fun......)

That's good new, thanks for posting

[ray schrauwen]

I have one in a Cheetah too as well as one more for P mono. Both are more vintage and seem to keep going.

I'm Kinda off TP since that custom motor got nuclear hot and seems to be unusable after magnets got to 180F or worse. It still runs but, it shuts down any esc after a few laps. One motor does not speak for all. If you guys are happy thats great for you and TP. That 80*C rating doesn't leave much room for mistakes. It does make for a tighter wound motor which is a good trade off. Maybe things have improved since 2014 too.

[Fluid]

Initial TP motors were not like they are today. I had two from 3-4 years ago and was not very impressed, they were not much better than a comparable Leopard and ran hotter than my old Neus. A change in management in the past couple years has definately upped their game and I am impressed with my current motors. Too, the TPs have been used to set a number of SAW and two-lap records, so they can take some abuse


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[TheShaughnessy]

Mine will get some more water time soon. Got Vids ?

what are you doing this Saturday after the SCSTA meeting? I'd love to take of video of you running this beast .

[properchopper]

what are you doing this Saturday after the SCSTA meeting? I'd love to take of video of you running this beast .

Hmmmm....(we'll talk on that tel-o-phoneium gadget thingie) Will look into weather forecast.

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