Miss Geico Lets see what this thing can do!

[tman52804]

Where'd you get those dual water pickups?

[JPriami]

Here at offshoreelectrics on the webpages under cooling.

[JPriami]

Just sprayed some primer on here. Let that dry then fine tune a few spots slightly.

[Brushless55]

wow, looks good man!

[JPriami]

Thanks my friend, Been doing little here and there each night. I am not sure if I'll put finish paint on it before I test it out or not. Because I will be repainting the whole boat in the next couple weeks.

[ron1950]

wish i wasent so lazy....id do mine lol....

[JPriami]

Got the tape off today after work. Wanted to see if the lines bleed much. Going to fill few pin holes and lightly sand all the primer a bit tonight.
Was hoping to install my wire drive setup tonight but I didn't get it yet. Ordered it Monday night. i got my collet from ose today tho. Thanks steven for always being someone to count on to ship stuff out asap.

[boaterkid333]

what brand primer did you use?

[JPriami]

Krylon indoor outdoor white primer.

[JackBlack26]

I did mine and they re as flat as yours, though they weren't too bad. I was able to fill them in with filler and not have to use bondo. There was very little low spot in there. Looking at it straight down from behind it's nice and even. I didn't do the corners though as I don't think handling on this boat can be improved even more. Just my feeling, of course.

Also, that white Krylon primer works great. Nice and easy to sand. Also goes on very thin so not much mess when sanding it.

[JPriami]

Earlier I installed noodles for flotation up front in the sponsons. Then ended up having to cut them in half to act as forward battery trays. Then I would add a cut peice of flotation on top of the batteries to keep them from moving around.
I wanted to hollow out a noodle to place the battery packs inside of it. But cutting it was kind of hard and keeping the shape all the way through.
Lucky me I found these slightly larger noodles with larger openings. I think this will be the ticket. I can cut them to length and install up front down to the battery trays. And I should be able to tuck my lipos snugly inside of them. Keeping them secure and safe from bouncing around up front in the sponsons.

[JPriami]

Whew. That was a tight squeeze.

[JPriami]

Sprayed some white gloss on tonight. I might not be repainting the whole boat now. I have managed to get the gecko stain to fade out a little. Ive buffed it with some cutting compound and it seems to lighten when its out in the sun a while. So we will see how much it actually goes away (keep it out in the sun longer on the next nice day). if it doesnt then I'll paint the boat. But I am liking the white sponsons look.

I did get a short run in today with a temporary test .078 wire drive I had on hand. It wasnt perfect because it had a very slight wobble in the drive. But it didnt have good results. I am not sure if the angle in the stuffing tube or the rigidness in the wire drive but it seems to have some good tension on it when in the stuffing tube spinning it freely by hand. Anyways just making a few passes it it would lock up on me out in the water. I didnt even get through one set of packs and I had to call it quits and go back home to mow the lawn instead.
I am going to just order a upgraded cable from steven here and use that. and an octura collet.

Later today I found some rubber weather stripping thats about 1/4" thick with a self adhesive backing. I got some and decided I will try that as an air dam to see if thats a simple fix

[JPriami]

I need to find the sweet spot for the batteries in this setup vs speed & stability. Also hope the air dam on the next run helps out.
Today's best recorded speed was 58.3Mph on a x642 prop

[ron1950]

carefull u will burn the paint off the bottom lol...where did u get the noodles? i need some