What did you do to your boat today?

[fweasel]

I always like these posts on the car forums I frequent. Not everyone has a dedicated build thread, and its fun to see what was getting tweaked on the work bench.

I swapped out an ADS outrunner for a Turnigy 2836 3200Kv in my Barbwire XL. Drilled out the motor mount to make room for the new stainless collet and just nicked the lower cooling passage. A little JB Weld and it's as good as new.

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Installed a swim deck on the Spartan, cooling bulkhead fittings, and replumbed the cooling lines. I've been correcting a lot of sins from the previous owner. The boat is my "beater" and I get a kick out of working on it. Its nice to have a hull that can get scratched up, banged around in the car, and driven by "guests" at the lake.

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[fweasel]

Changed out the hatch screw on my Voracity for a spring loaded push and twist style. I had to chip out the plastic bushing that got epoxied into the hatch when I reinforced it from below last summer. The hole in the fiber glass was a little large so I filled in the gaps with, what else, JB Weld. The cup was an exact fit with the stock piece. Put on a new 450/3 prop from Dasboata that he cut down to 47mm for me since the 447/3's aren't being made anymore. Just need some cooperation from the weather...

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[Tamelesstgr]

I looked at my pile of parts before boxing up the charger I sold haha.

[boatsrnew2me]

i would rather have the screw down on my hatch . the push and lock on my blackjack is kinda a pain ,
i looked at my boats today..that is all.

[Fluid]

Put graphics on My DF Vector 34 Hydro, now it looks like a full-scale limited hydroplane instead of a yellow blob...



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[fweasel]

i would rather have the screw down on my hatch . the push and lock on my blackjack is kinda a pain

The same style was on my Blackjack 29 V3, loved it, which is why I switched it on the Voracity. Never had an issue with the Blackjack hatch. Perhaps your's needs a little tweaking? I had to cut a few coils off the spring on the new one so it would plunge deep enough to clear the bottom of the cup before you turned it 90*.

Put graphics on My DF Vector 34 Hydro, now it looks like a full-scale limited hydroplane instead of a yellow blob...

Pics or it didn't happen!

[JestDanny]

50 degrees in February here in S.E. Ma. are you kidding me. I ran two boats today. Ran two batteries thru the BlackJack 24". Test #1 Octura 442 prop = GPS 31mph. Test #2 Prather 215 prop = GPS 31mph. Also ran first test with my OPC Hot Shot Sprint on 4 cell, Prather 215prop = GPS 42mph.

[Kkingx1]

I repaired my AQ Motley Crew (p-limited). Last Sunday I blew up my previous set up with stock AQ ESC and upgraded w/ AQ 2030 (UL-1) motor w/ Octura M445 (Boat ran flawlessly!!)... that went up in smoke so tore out everything and added the new set up w/ DYNM3835 1500kv motor w/ Turnigy 120a esc and slightly larger prop m545!

Excited to see how the new set up will work for me... quick question... ANYONE KNOW PROPER TIMING FOR THIS MOTOR? ALSO, I changed prop to a M545, anyone currently running this set up and know if this is the correct prop to run w/ the 1500kv limited class motor? Thanks guys!

[Mxkid261]

I pretty much have all my stuff ready got 2 new builds ready to get wet, just waiting for ice to melt now!! Here's my room in the house, dirty tasks are done in the shop

[fweasel]

Excited to see how the new set up will work for me... quick question... ANYONE KNOW PROPER TIMING FOR THIS MOTOR? ALSO, I changed prop to a M545, anyone currently running this set up and know if this is the correct prop to run w/ the 1500kv limited class motor? Thanks guys!

I just bought two of those motors, so I'd like to know as well. Best I could find searching old Miss Geico V2 posts was 11.25*. It appears to be a Y-wind motor.

[785boats]

At our club, we use those motors in our 'Restricted' classes of racing. Monos, Sports Hydros, & Riggers.
We are also restricted to the 45A ESC too.
Most of us run X645 or X447 props on them.

[Keagan-Z06]

Changed out the hatch screw on my Voracity for a spring loaded push and twist style. I had to chip out the plastic bushing that got epoxied into the hatch when I reinforced it from below last summer. The hole in the fiber glass was a little large so I filled in the gaps with, what else, JB Weld. The cup was an exact fit with the stock piece. Put on a new 450/3 prop from Dasboata that he cut down to 47mm for me since the 447/3's aren't being made anymore. Just need some cooperation from the weather...

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I'll be working on my Voracity more when I get through with the Zelos, I have that same prop but RAW and I know I can't do it justice, let me know how it does.

[Kkingx1]

I just bought two of those motors, so I'd like to know as well. Best I could find searching old Miss Geico V2 posts was 11.25*. It appears to be a Y-wind motor.

Thanks! Everything ran great today I used the 11.25* timing it may have ran better than the ul-1 set up I blew up last week!

[Kkingx1]

At our club, we use those motors in our 'Restricted' classes of racing. Monos, Sports Hydros, & Riggers.
We are also restricted to the 45A ESC too.
Most of us run X645 or X447 props on them.

I found deep in my prop box a M645... ran amazing but slightly hot which made me nervous since my last set last week when up in smoke! I may have a 447 I'll have to check and do some mid week testing before our club meets up next Sunday... thanks for your help!

[silvr_tung_devl]

Got some testing in today. Winds were 10-15mph so I wanted to do some crap weather testing in case race day is the same. Lets just say I've torpedo'ed a few boats, but NEVER like this! My 20+yr old Dumas Hot Shot...I swear went to the bottom of the lake and back...it was gone that long!! Actually not.....just seems that long!! It was only under for about 5 seconds.....long enough to make we wonder if it was ever gonna surface!!!