Got my widow maker. Picts inside

[JackBlack26]

Well, I ended up "ghetto cooling" the Mamba Max speed control and it dropped the temperature significantly. I'll going to coat it with "Liquid Electrical Tape" to prevent it from water damage. I also added the Grim 42x55 prop from my Nitro BJ26 to it and it rips!! I adjusted the strut and now it cavitates and takes longer to get on plane, but when it planes it runs smoother and more consistent with out hopping all over the place. I still think the turn fins do more harm then good but for now they'll stay. I'm really enjoying this little guy considering I can run about 10 minutes on 1 battery. I get bored before draining the 3, 2S LiPos I take with me to the pond. :P

[SweetZ28]

I see you angled the strut up... I have one i have trim tabs on mine it don't hop that much but it don't handle in the turns it seems to rock left and right sidways back and forth so you have to go slow in turns.... any way to get this thing to run faster and smoother through the turns?

[SweetZ28]

Here is mine i had to make my own hatch because i purchased it off this site in the for sale section and it did not have one and no stores had them in stock for months!!

[JackBlack26]

That hatch makes it look like an El Camino. Looks really cool!

I found that dropping the strut brace, where it attaches to the boat, all the way to the bottom and angling the strut as pictured tamed the boat down a lot. The down side is that it takes a bit longer to plane. Could also be because I'm running a bigger prop which possibly stick out of the water a bit more than the smaller stock one. The boat does tend to rock side to side a bit and I attribute this to the turn sins doing their job correcting it as it skips along at full throttle. I have no problem running it back and forth at full throttle or flipping it. Adjusting the strut the way like I did also makes it dig in more while turning at higher speeds, which allows you to stay on the throttle a bit more than right out the box. Play with the height and angle of the strut until you find the balance along with battery placement. It has a sweet spot, I promise. I found the one for mine :)

[SweetZ28]

when i got mine in the classified section the guy put trim tabs on the rear so i don't know if it's working better with them on or if it worked better in stock form?

I will test strut angle it may just be a good angle for you because of your prop.

I have a X435 i put on mine but i have to give it a test run to see how she goes.

[JackBlack26]

I would take the trim tabs off. This boat doesn't need them IMO. I will try the same strut brace/strut angles with the stock prop next time out and report any differences, if any.