5 Attachment(s)
Vintage Firehawk FE build
Hello all, my first FE boat was the Firehawk around I think 1990 or so. It was a low cost FE and had good styling but not very fast with the underwater prop and rudder. At some point there was an article in a R/C magazine back in the day where a guy upgraded his with a Graupner surface drive. So I did the same to mine running a Speedworks Modified Marine Motor on one 7.2v with a Novak ESC. I don't know what happened to that boat. So a few years ago searching for another one and I came across a guy selling one and purchased it. He had converted it to brush-less and it moves pretty good but I got the itch to build it all vintage like my original. So I have now sourced all the vintage parts to start my build. Used Graupner drive, new prop, new gears, Vintage Tekin Marine 432 ESC, NIB Vintage Speedworks Modified Marine Motor!! (that cost a bit on Ebay). Only difference in the set up vs my original is the better Tekin ESC and I will be running two 7.2 NimH batteries in series. Will keep thread posted with progress.
Attachment 155475Attachment 155476Attachment 155477Attachment 155478Attachment 155479