Namba 1/8 Rule Changes

[T.S.Davis]

Why not Jay? Some of us 1/8 scales guys east of the Mississippi race with both organizations. Our current setups were built around the rules at the time. We chose power based on what our hulls needed. Heavy boat needed more power. Light boat less power to go basically the same lap times.

With the newest rule set I can't use the boat I've owned for 10 years. Well.....thats not fair. It does work on 8s just runs about 52....ish as it's heavy. If I want to compete I'll have to invent a new ultra light boat. Likely an 8255 variant with no tail feathers. Maybe some 1/32 skins. Weight being the enemy.

Really doesn't matter I suppose. Getting FE guys to a race is really tough. 1/8 scale needs "modelers" if you know what I mean. We've seen less of that lately. Hoping it's a phase.

[T.S.Davis]

With no registration you could run a shingle with a tupper ware tower and call it 1/8th scale.

The registration is foolish. There's no inspection of the boat for compliance at all. I can register an Oberto right now without even building a boat. The money is used for a trophy or what? A trophy you and I aren't allowed to compete for? Rubbish.

[longballlumber]

The registration is foolish. There's no inspection of the boat for compliance at all. I can register an Oberto right now without even building a boat. The money is used for a trophy or what? A trophy you and I aren't allowed to compete for? Rubbish.

Last time I checked FE'rs in IMPBA 1/8 Scale were not being charged the fee. Has that changed?

[T.S.Davis]

Last time I checked FE'rs in IMPBA 1/8 Scale were not being charged the fee. Has that changed?

Don't know.

[Peter A]

Why not Jay? Some of us 1/8 scales guys east of the Mississippi race with both organizations. Our current setups were built around the rules at the time. We chose power based on what our hulls needed. Heavy boat needed more power. Light boat less power to go basically the same lap times.

With the newest rule set I can't use the boat I've owned for 10 years. Well.....thats not fair. It does work on 8s just runs about 52....ish as it's heavy. If I want to compete I'll have to invent a new ultra light boat. Likely an 8255 variant with no tail feathers. Maybe some 1/32 skins. Weight being the enemy.

Really doesn't matter I suppose. Getting FE guys to a race is really tough. 1/8 scale needs "modelers" if you know what I mean. We've seen less of that lately. Hoping it's a phase.

From my experience with 8255 hulls, weight is not a huge problem. The hulls have a huge amount of lift and to get them stable at speed you need a fairly big air dam under the front. I run a Q hydro that is a 10% smaller than 1/8 scale hull, originally designed for sport 40 nitro. Runs 95 kph ish for ovals on 6000mah batt.

Our club sec has moulds for that and the 1/8, which he has run as a nitro for years (Executone) and has just built up an electric version, moulded in carbon. So far it is still being dialed in and tested, but he really needs an air dam on it as he flipped it a couple of weeks ago and lost a set of batts that broke loose and are at the bottom of our pond.

Those TP 4070 motors, why does OSE list them as 100mm long? The TP specs do say 107mm. Mind you a 4060 will give you all the power you need for a scale anyways.