Got my rio ep, and want to go faster

[traxxas4fun]

well as of now everything is in its stock location except the esc, its just sitting left of the prop shaft inside the hull.

How do i know if the props has less pitch then the one i have. im new to boats so i dont know much. Could you give me a link to a prop that u think would work

[Jesse J]

how about a 38mm or K40?

It depends on how hot your motor is getting and on how many cells you are running.

[traxxas4fun]

im getting about 10 minutes runtime with my setup and its barely getting warm.

[forescott]

I previosly ran a traxxas xl-5/titan 12turn combo in mine. The motor didnt last that long, but it gps'd at 20mph. Bought a graupner race 8.4 brushed motor, and got less speed. Then I switched props to a venom 36mm 3-blade from my ekos and that really woke-up the boat! The stock 42mm prop was really bogging down and heating up the motors I was using. When I propped down, the rpm really came up on the graupner motor as well as the speed.

[forescott]

I'm gonna get another titan 12-turn and give it another try with the smaller prop. I was really impressed with the performance of that motor. I just hope it does'nt burn again!

[forescott]

I also got a 2-blade octura 535 I wanna try out.

[traxxas4fun]

So what 3 blade did you exactly buy? LINK?

[forescott]

Its one of the stock props off the venom electric king of shaves. Its 366mm x 1.4 pitch. 4mm shaft though, so I had to shim it to fit the 1/8 shaft on the rio.

[forescott]

I ran my rio today on an octura 535 2-blade, and was pretty impressed. Holeshot was nice, got up to speed quickly, ran smooth and handled well. Better speed and performance than the stock prop. The motor ran cooler too.

[forescott]

I am also using a 4000mah 2s turnigy lipo, which is much lighter than any nimh pack. I'm sure this helped out wiuth the speed as well!

[Jesse J]

any vid?

[hyrulejedi86]

+1 on the video!

[forescott]

I just got one of those Flip video cameras. I'm gonna try and get the wife to come out to the lake with me and take some vids of my fleet. I am waay overdue on some videos!

[traxxas4fun]

so how did you shim it? and did the other prop work better than the king of shaves one

[traxxas4fun]

so this prop- http://www.offshoreelectrics.com/pro...ctura+Y+Series