feigao vs ammo

[chunt92]

just sent my hydra120 back and locked up my ammo both were fried due to bad set up and too big of a prop. check the vids earler in this thread. the vid that about 2.5 min. long is when she locked up.

[Ctonez]

read this thread: http://forums.offshoreelectrics.com/...light=supervee

...and the RCUniverse thread it refers to. All the info you need is there.
get a pad of paper and your beverage of choice and enjoy!

read this too:
http://forums.offshoreelectrics.com/...ead.php?t=1939

[chunt92]

thanks!....

[fastbaltek]

i agree with taking the water pick up off and using the rudder instead, maybe you could open up the hole just a tad. Try wet sanding the bottem of the hull where it contacts the water, makes bubbles so less boat in the water.... i think. also i think the strut should be parallel with the bottom of the boat. if metal props fail go for the cf45. or 48 ha.

[SweetAccord]

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Oh Oh, you know what???? Screw me bad. I revisited the pics again........constantly thinking, why....why....why.....this is a good setup.

Hard to see the pic, but is it me or is the prop. drive dog flat up against the drive strut or maybe more space is needed?? It's hard to see millimeters in a pic.

http://forums.offshoreelectrics.com/...3&d=1202364692 and http://forums.offshoreelectrics.com/...8&d=1202365379

You need at least 2-5mm gap on that as the flex cable (I believe if I need correction please someone chime in) that will decrease it's length under rotation and if you have no gap there it's gunna smack on the srut and cause major or some drag?

I hope that's it cause that is a easy fix!!!

[fastbaltek]

nice catch i would have to agree. my drive dog is about 3mm away from the strut.

[Dale Koblitz]

I keep mine between 1/8 and a 1/4" from the strut. Actually that quarter inch extra distance from the hull makes a difference in speed also. 1/4" is suppose to be the fastest actually from what I've heard. And yes under load the cable shortens and if there isn't a big enough gap it will cause binding like Accord said.

[chunt92]

yes your right the distance was too close but in the past two week ive bought another sv and ive done some changes closley to the other boat minus the prop the best on a stock sv was 36mph with warm 6 cell packs the volts are much higher than the lipos (lipos were 35mph) but the bigest killer was the water pick up it lost 6 mph. so along with an unbalanced boat i tried to compensate with the trim tabs down too big of a prop and im sure a few other things. right now im tring to figure out the best flowing water pic up with out slowing me down ive tried the stock pic up in the rudder but its not much more than a dribble if that. ill post a pic of the most resent changes also i took a drill bit that was like the next size larger (inside diameter) and opened up the brass nipples on the speedo and the one on the rudder.

[chunt92]

heres some pics

[chunt92]

heres a link to me and my brother n law racing on a small lake http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSV_8n7Zyu4&feature=user
and then one running by my self on the 36 mph run

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLOtnHaI3vE&feature=user:banana:

[Ctonez]

Looking good!
36 sounds more like it.
Getting more speed will now come from the little tweaks and prop work/choice.
Good to see you're making progress.

[SweetAccord]

Nice Videos! Make that Ms. Vegas chase you!!! On that 3rd picture it looks like your strut pooped a butch of grease out or did you pack that on there? It's still hard to tell with that grease in the way how much of a gap there is, BUT you are aware of that now so only you can tell. I'm glad that adjusting the water pickup made a difference for you! It just looked like too much.....sometimes more is just not better.....in this case.

[chunt92]

pooped lol, it just wiped it off the shaft as i put it in. the water pick up was the major problem it knocked off 6 mph. does any one have a picup that doesent slow it down?

[chunt92]

special thanks to Ctonez the info he has given me realy has helped!

[Ctonez]

...just payin' it forward. I wouldn't know half of what I know without the help of people I've met in the forums and at the races.
Glad I could help.