The official 36" zelos twin modding thread

[Keagan-Z06]

Or just read the manual Lol

Or that. Lol

[buckman]

Hey kfxguy glad to here your on the road to recovery, Is that your 36"twin sitting over at BC shaver waiting for you.

Cheers
Buckman

[Mercer2]

Ok I did my test however I was only able to do 60.89mph and that is with only a prop change a pair of octura x447 sharp and balanced, battery temperatures where a little hot at 130f as you can see.

however I only had a pond 400 feet long, which is not so goo to measure speed.

[arrover]

I think you either need a longer place to run like you say or maybe some boat tuning. When I ran the 73mph runs with the x447s I was at 4mm on the struts and two 3s batteries as far forward as possible. When the batteries are that far forward they can only be strapped in by one Velcro strap each (at least with my packs anyway). Nice pictures!

[kfxguy]

Hey kfxguy glad to here your on the road to recovery, Is that your 36"twin sitting over at BC shaver waiting for you.

Cheers
Buckman

Thanks.

What do you mean? My twin is here in my shop on my shelf waiting to be run again. If I feel up to it, I may go run it today.

[buckman]

Coincidence friend, I was picking up my 48" Zelos last Friday and the LHS owner mentioned there's a 36"twin waiting for owner to pick up after his heart bypass surgery.
Glad your good to go

Buckman

[kfxguy]

Coincidence friend, I was picking up my 48" Zelos last Friday and the LHS owner mentioned there's a 36"twin waiting for owner to pick up after his heart bypass surgery.
Glad your good to go

Buckman

Gotcha. I had two valves replaced. Ivebern having my zelos....before they were released to the public.

[JPriami]

Well after running the boat for the 4th time out & hitting 75.7 Mph today. Watching the water coming out the side outlets I feel it should flow better than this. Tonight I gave the cooling system a closer inspection. Taking hoses off and blowing through parts of the system I noticed the esc's seem to be the most restrictive. Took the esc's off and wow those nipples have a tiny ID. So I took a 3/32 drill bit and opened them up a little. Here are a couple before and after shots. Looking forward to trying it out next weekend.

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[paulfromtulsa]

Well after running the boat for the 4th time out & hitting 75.7 Mph today. Watching the water coming out the side outlets I feel it should flow better than this. Tonight I gave the cooling system a closer inspection. Taking hoses off and blowing through parts of the system I noticed the esc's seem to be the most restrictive. Took the esc's off and wow those nipples have a tiny ID. So I took a 3/32 drill bit and opened them up a little. Here are a couple before and after shots. Looking forward to trying it out next weekend.

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What props were you using to get 75 mph?

[arrover]

Great speed and thanks for the cooling info. Have you cleaned the paint out of your cooling intakes? Mine was slightly restricted there. Not terrible but cleaning it out helped the flow.

[JPriami]

Yes cleaning the paint out was one of the first things I had done after the first run.

Abc 1816/3

[Keagan-Z06]

Yes cleaning the paint out was one of the first things I had done after the first run.

Abc 1816/3

Was there need for a better flex shaft or the stock one handle that prop well?

[JPriami]

I'm still using the stock flexes. I do plan to buy the stronger ones later on. But only because my flexes wore excessively due to the out drives not being properly assembled from the factory. Thus the grease kept getting sucked out the first 3 trips to the lake. For me the upgraded ones would offer a little extra piece of mind.

[Mxkid261]

Was there need for a better flex shaft or the stock one handle that prop well?

I dont have one, but the cables on this boat should handle most anything you throw at it

[Keagan-Z06]

I dont have one, but the cables on this boat should handle most anything you throw at it

I did that with my voracity. Didn't upgrade my flex and used an unbalanced octura 452 I think and lost everything. Prop, bullet, shaft! That won't be happening again! Lol