Flatbottom v drive build

[SHAWN DAVIS]

Gonna build an electric flatbottom to match my drag boat.. any experiences here on these?
was thinking install the motor backwards and run a v drive like in the real boat,if they make one? with a fully submerged prop
.heres the boat

http://rcdragboats.yuku.com/topic/788/DaVette-T-Deck-Drag-Boat

[Fluid]

I have seen one V-drive in a flatty but it was on a nitro boat many years ago - it was cumbersome and didn't look scale. Forget about it. Mount the motor forward as usual and use a flex cable drive, you don't need the motor near the transom to balance the hull - use the packs. You should be able to keep the motor inside the boat so as not to spoil the scale look. A club member built a flatty with runners and adjustable trim tabs, but I don't think he ever ran it. It looked very scale, with a plastic hemi ahead of the transom and the motor and packs invisible inside.



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[SHAWN DAVIS]

Sounds like a great idea, easier and cheaper!

[properchopper]

Shawn, if you have an extra 8 grand or so laying around :

http://www.conleyprecision.com/609.htm

[SHAWN DAVIS]

Dont have much more than that in the real boat!
here it is before I put the supercharged motor in

[properchopper]

Shawn, Jay's right; direct drive would simplify things, BUT a V-Drive would be way cool. This guy posted here - check him out for a V-Drive

http://www.breakthroughcad.com.au/

[galant2door]

Shawn, if you have an extra 8 grand or so laying around :

http://www.conleyprecision.com/609.htm

That would be a sweet set up in a jet boat with a swash drive jet unit, I would love to see something like that

[srislash]

I have built a flatbottom with a 30mm Graupner jet.It's the one in my Avatar.It has yet to see water.I had only just heard of brushless and Lipo's when I built it,wish I would've left provision for the scale V8.