Miss Geico Lets see what this thing can do!

[Brushless55]

man that sucker screams!

[maxmekker]

Sure is fast, I just have to get one soon. May I ask the stock motor, is it a 500 ore 600 size.

[Brushless01]

The stock motor i think is a 540 size.

[JPriami]

tried the strut with a little negative angle today with out the air dam. it helped. but seems like i slowed down a hair. tried 3 different props and best speed was 57.7 mph. the m645 was lifting the port side up too much. the x646/3 had the best speed and acceleration but was lifting the transom at high speed and causing a odd skip. the p225 did ok.
think i'd like to try out a wire drive in here and see how that goes.

[martin]

You need to stop air travelling further along the underside of the tunnel which is what the dam does by inerupting the flow. What you have is not stopping the air travelling along the hull. Its not just the front angled piece of the tunnel that gives lift. When you add a dam its a couple of inches back from the front so you still have the accute angle under the first 2" but this does not give lift with a dam fitted. Martin.

[JPriami]

The pics I've posted isnt what i have used yet. It was a rough idea in the earlier pic.
And yes that angle I have that make shift wing at will counter act any lift the hull has on the nose of the boat. Because it will add down force by grabbing air that would normally go under the hull and force it over it.
I have made some rough simulations in a airflow program too

[JPriami]

My other set of lipos came the other day. Happy to have another set. This time I got the nano tech 3S 45C 5000mAh.
Going to try out a wire drive setup hopefully this weekend. If that dosent work (worried about the angles) out I'll go back to the flex but get an upgraded one from steven here at OSE. My stock one is slightly deforming near the collet area and rubbing the wires in the strut portion pretty good.

I sanded the steps on the bottom of the hull to see the low & high spots. It's actually in not that bad of shape. But I plan on blue printing the bottom of the hull in the next couple weeks and repainting the whole boat back the same neon yellow color. Because I removed the gecko off the deck Sunday evening and it has stained the deck. I was able to lighten the stain but since I'm having custom deck decals made up I want it to all look good too. Might get a few other decals made up that I think would look good on it. Then clear over them all. I'm also getting one of those superb hatches made by Scott here on OSE.

[JPriami]

Got started on this part this evening.


Still got another coat of mud to lay down and sharpen edges more. Hopefully the last one. Not tonight tho.

[tiqueman]

[Darin Jordan]

Still got another coat of mud to lay down and sharpen edges more. Hopefully the last one. Not tonight tho.

Nice work, Man... Looks just like mine did when I was doing it. Goes pretty quickly.

We actually were working with the supplier to try to improve the bottoms of these. Future offerings MIGHT have truer bottoms... Can't promise that, but it has been discussed with the supplier.

[Brushless55]

so does this help with cornering?

[Darin Jordan]

so does this help with cornering?

Does this boat need HELP cornering???

[TheShaughnessy]

Nice work, Man... Looks just like mine did when I was doing it. Goes pretty quickly.

We actually were working with the supplier to try to improve the bottoms of these. Future offerings MIGHT have truer bottoms... Can't promise that, but it has been discussed with the supplier.

My buddy accidentally smashed into my rescue boat one day and dinged up the front of the boat a little bit. The rescue boat had a nice hole the size of a MG sponson in it and sank.

So now that he is going to be redoing his hull anyway I told him to true up the bottom, but then i looked at it and it was nice and flat, pretty sharp too.

Is this something that can happen over time as the hull flexes? He only had a couple runs on his but I have quite a bit on mine and mine had some low spots.

[Darin Jordan]

Is this something that can happen over time as the hull flexes? He only had a couple runs on his but I have quite a bit on mine and mine had some low spots.

Not likely... I suggested that the hulls weren't being left in the mold long enough to fully cure, so they pads would "shrink" after they were pulled from the mold. The sample boats we had were much flatter than the production versions, so this is a good indicator.

It might also be that we told them to try to get them flat/sharp, even if they had to do some filling after the molding process, so maybe they have started doing that.

Either way, it's NOT unusual to need to work on the bottom of a composite boat. Even the best quality glass will have some imperfections in it and variations out of the mold from layup to layup.

[JPriami]

Got my final layer of mud on and sanded. edges sharp and squared edges of steps nicely too. I decided to try something to add some durability to the filler and help keep the edges protected from damage I coated all the worked area with 20 min epoxy that should soak in nicely and add some strength. I'll sand back over that once it dries and check edges and small holes i used the epoxy as filler then prep for primer.