The official 36" zelos twin modding thread

[forescott]

The play on the other side is slightly less

[Rafael_Lopez]

If the collet was hitting the mount there would be wear marks on the aluminum mounts. Make sure to keep and eye out there. Also, the collet gets pulled away from the mount as the prop loads up, so the play you get when the motor is static is gone under load.

When you say you were getting uneven motor RPM, was the boat pulling to one side or the other while accelerating on water? Or were you basing that off bumping the power on the bench?

[kfxguy]

This doesn't seem right.

Mine moves that much and it runs just fine.

[forescott]

If the collet was hitting the mount there would be wear marks on the aluminum mounts. Make sure to keep and eye out there. Also, the collet gets pulled away from the mount as the prop loads up, so the play you get when the motor is static is gone under load.

When you say you were getting uneven motor RPM, was the boat pulling to one side or the other while accelerating on water? Or were you basing that off bumping the power on the bench?

I could hear uneven rpm at half throttle. No pulling left or right. I've since synced the esc's via the instructions and pulled the collets away from the motor a tiny bit. Will see how that works.

[paulfromtulsa]

Ran the zelos today with some x447 props. The best I got was 69mph with the batteries as far back as they could go. I got 65mph with the batteries as far up as they could go. The boat was much more stable with the batteries up front

[ChevyPrerunner]

Hey Guys,

I just caught up on this thread nice speeds here you guys!
I ordered up some CNC 42mm here from OSE to give a try since i haven't seen anyone else report anything on the CNC's..
Hope to get a lil more speed out of them over the stocks.
I have not touched my struts out of the box or the cooling lines.
Water flow is pretty slow but my temps have been right around 100 Degrees on both the motor and ESC so nothing to worry about as Rafael has stated above.
Will report back on the CNC's whenever they arrive.
Here are some pics from me running completely stock.
Fun Cat For Sure!

Cheers,

Brian

[Keagan-Z06]

Nice shots Brian

[kfxguy]

So I was able to make it to the lake for a few minutes today. I made no changes from last run just to see how consistent it is. It went 74.6mph and I think last time it went 74.4 so id say it's very consistent. After the run you see in the video below I tried to move the struts and just eyeball it but that isn't gonna work. At about 55 it started lifting out the water. Tried that a couple times and brought it in. Then I moved the batts back. I could tell it was looser at this point but my batts were down a bit but it still went 74.4 again. That tells me with fully topped off packs it should do 76ish. I'll try it again tomorrow.

[ray schrauwen]

Very nice looking boat. If I had $1000 cdn I'd love one. Nice lines.

[kfxguy]

Very nice looking boat. If I had $1000 cdn I'd love one. Nice lines.

Yes it is a very nice looking boat. One of my favorite hulls now. This one is getting painted a nice house of kolor orange as soon as I feel up to it (and I either break 80mph or get darn close to it!)

[ChevyPrerunner]

Nice shots Brian

Thanks Keagan!! Its a killer Cat, Can't wait to run in the morning! haha

[Keagan-Z06]

Thanks Keagan!! Its a killer Cat, Can't wait to run in the morning! haha

I just got my rescue raft, so no more conservative runs from here on out!

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[arrover]

I feel like I'm still figuring this boat out. There are more variables to tweak and get the feel for than my other boats. Like KFX, I ran the same props as before just to see if it was running the same speed. The X447s ran 72.2mph today so about 1-1.5moh slower than my previous runs. I think that's because the water was flat and it probably would have been a tiny bit faster with just a little breeze. After those runs I put on a set of CNC 5014s. I already had a regular rotation 5014 so I decided to order a reverse and try them. Today I was only able to run around 67.0 (49.0mph on 4s). The other day the same props ran 68.2mph. I'm not ready to say that this is the fastest that these two sets of props can run. So far though, it does seem like the 5014s may be to much for the stock motors to swing efficiently.

[Brushless55]

Yes it is a very nice looking boat. One of my favorite hulls now. This one is getting painted a nice house of kolor orange as soon as I feel up to it (and I either break 80mph or get darn close to it!)

That's good to know bro !

[Keagan-Z06]

I need a GPS asap! Any recommendations without breaking the pocket?