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Hello everyone,
Im new to the OSE forums(well, been reading up for a couple months now) and finally got my boat modded to the point where I wasn't embarrassed about it being stock....lol. Even though "stock" it ran a cool 51.2mph on gps
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So I have a Traxxas Spartan 2nd gen, but I have already added an extended, dual water pickup rudder and am running two separate cooling lines for the motor and ESC, 2 sets of adjustable trim tabs, aluminum water jacket, x442 prop and running it on 6S. That 51.2mph was actually BONE STOCK with none of these mods at all. I actually didn't see an increase at all with x442 prop which was weird, so I went ahead and ordered a beast of a motor, along with a 180a marine esc. I was inspired by a dude named Rinski on some of the forums as well as youtube to get my Spartan at or near the 70mph mark as he was successful in getting up there. I wont spill the beans yet of the new motor,
but will post up a pic of it along with the prop I will be running. (I'm sure some of you veterans to the sport will recognize the motor manufacturer, but I'm not talking specs on it just yet until I can film a successful run with the new setup). I was told with confidence by the shop owner who hooked me up with this motor(which will be pushing 5.5HP from what he said) that IF AND ONLY IF I can manage to keep the light hulled Spartan IN the water, I should be at or over the 70 mph mark 
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and yes, that's and X450 S/B prop in that bag!!!
Well, I look forward to learning a lot more from you guys here on this forum and will update my progress as often as I can. My ESC should be arriving tomorrow or Monday(I hate ordering from overseas.....stuff takes FOREVER to get here).
Im new to the OSE forums(well, been reading up for a couple months now) and finally got my boat modded to the point where I wasn't embarrassed about it being stock....lol. Even though "stock" it ran a cool 51.2mph on gps
51.2gps.jpg
So I have a Traxxas Spartan 2nd gen, but I have already added an extended, dual water pickup rudder and am running two separate cooling lines for the motor and ESC, 2 sets of adjustable trim tabs, aluminum water jacket, x442 prop and running it on 6S. That 51.2mph was actually BONE STOCK with none of these mods at all. I actually didn't see an increase at all with x442 prop which was weird, so I went ahead and ordered a beast of a motor, along with a 180a marine esc. I was inspired by a dude named Rinski on some of the forums as well as youtube to get my Spartan at or near the 70mph mark as he was successful in getting up there. I wont spill the beans yet of the new motor,
but will post up a pic of it along with the prop I will be running. (I'm sure some of you veterans to the sport will recognize the motor manufacturer, but I'm not talking specs on it just yet until I can film a successful run with the new setup). I was told with confidence by the shop owner who hooked me up with this motor(which will be pushing 5.5HP from what he said) that IF AND ONLY IF I can manage to keep the light hulled Spartan IN the water, I should be at or over the 70 mph mark motor-prop.jpg
and yes, that's and X450 S/B prop in that bag!!!
Well, I look forward to learning a lot more from you guys here on this forum and will update my progress as often as I can. My ESC should be arriving tomorrow or Monday(I hate ordering from overseas.....stuff takes FOREVER to get here).
I just didn't really see a "introduce yourself" thread. Maybe it should've gone in the Spartan specific section(If there even is one...lol)
I upped the timing to 22.5 and got a max of 56.7 mph. Yea, she's faster than stock but NOWHERE near what I was expecting or told, for that matter. It's a 1450kv 6pole massive motor and Im running the X450 prop which is pretty big so I was told it would be a 70 mph boat, but obviously not. Oh and even with the higher timing setting, the hottest temp I saw at the bullet connector of 121 degrees. The motor and ESC were both right around 107-111 degrees after running the batteries all the way to LVC. Anybody got any ideas or input?? 
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