Now lets upgrade some more stuff on the Spartan

[JPriami]

Ive been thinking a lot about the chine walking issue. I tried to adjust the tabs but all that did is the boat seems to run with more of the hull in the water at high speed and its still chine walking.
It looks like the boat wants to twist (right side drops down) from the torque from the motor & pushing the prop into the water. I was wondering about weight placement. What if I stagger the batteries so that one of them on the left is up further so that it might be harder for the boat to raise that side. Or maybe I should put the GPS on the left side to add a little extra to make it harder to lift that side.Or should i drop the right trim tab down more to help push that back up? not sure about that solution though.
Its an odd problem because its inconsistent. I have been able to make some high speed passes without chine it just gets on plane and goes good. Seems that if i ease into wot it does better too. So i feel that something is exciting the chine and once it starts it dosent quit till you drop the rpms down.

[Brushless55]

I place my gps on the left side and I think that helps my SV out

[martin]

With the Spartan the weight inside the hull is distributed pretty much even i think, This dosnt help with torque roll. I know with the self righting boats theirs a lot more weight on the left side looking from the rear along with the flood chamber as well so theirs quite a lot off biased to the left. This seems to help reducing torque roll with this type of boat. Thanks Martin.

[Rumdog]

This boat suffers from chine walk, not torque roll. Most all fast monos do since the ride right on the very rear of the hull (ride pad) if set up correctly. Weighting the port side will not change this. Prop walk comes into effect when propping to big for a give hull. Then it will tend to pull the starboard side down toward the water. The teeny prop on the Spartan isn't effecting it's handling.
The larger props JP is using may be causing prop walk however. Try adjusting just the starboard side tab a little bit negative and run the port side neutral. Or, try a prop with less pitch(lift).

[jamespl]

With regards to the stock heat issue i have found that traxxas say there products can do something and they arent fibbing they just dont seem to be able to do it for long, take my rustler vxl for example, it says it can do 70mph with a 3s lipo and the right gearing- yes it can but for real world use around the street the heat it generates is unreal! so for day to day tyre bashing its no good and i would imagine its the same sort of thing with the spartan.

[JPriami]

The fine print on my box say 50+MPH in the vehicle it's being hauled in when going to the lake.

[Brushless55]

With regards to the stock heat issue i have found that traxxas say there products can do something and they arent fibbing they just dont seem to be able to do it for long, take my rustler vxl for example, it says it can do 70mph with a 3s lipo and the right gearing- yes it can but for real world use around the street the heat it generates is unreal! so for day to day tyre bashing its no good and i would imagine its the same sort of thing with the spartan.

This boat was said to do 50mph+ out of the box on 6s
and it can't!

[Brushless55]

The fine print on my box say 50+MPH in the vehicle it's being hauled in when going to the lake.

[jamespl]

The fine print on my box say 50+MPH in the vehicle it's being hauled in when going to the lake.

Oh right. I thought it could do 50 on 6s but was getting stupidly hot!

[JPriami]

Best speed i got on mine stock was 43. I think a little more might be squeezed out of it stock on a good day.
I hope the snow goes away soon. It's cold and sucks.

[maxmekker]

Then come on over to Norway. :-)

[ray schrauwen]

This boat suffers from chine walk, not torque roll. ).

Plastic hull....

[Darin Jordan]

This boat was said to do 50mph+ out of the box on 6s
and it can't!

[Brushless55]

Big reason I'm sold on PB and AQ
they don't hype and lead the new guys on, and they build rock solid stuff!
oh and better yet PB and AQ actually listens to their customers and helps them out when things go wrong

My Spartan is going right back to traxxas
they keep deleting comments and threads on their site that talks about issues everyone is having with the spartan

[jamespl]

I'm not into bashing products but from what I'm reading most people that have this boat are very underwhelmed by it! When venom kept putting the P1 production back I thought about getting the Titan plus the impression I got with venom
Is that they weren't that good. I'm glad to say I went with the P1 and love it.