Finally scored one- setting up for NAMBA P-Ltd Cat Sprint race

[properchopper]

Mike, since you get notifications in this thread, here's a photo that AQ might like. E-mail me at [email protected] & I can send you the jpg.

BTW just LOVED racing the MC. (Brian's hard to catch - we both went in to the final round with two firsts and a second; Stephen (Geico) & Wilmer (??) got tangled up & Brian outran me for the heat and class win but I'll take a second behind Brian any time

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[Grimracer]

Tony,

Frist congrats and thank you.

It was fun to see you get the boat race ready and sharing that with everybody, and then to get this result is fantastic.

I think I can "copy" the pic off of here and send it to the powers that be. I will let you know however.

What a fun picture.. Congrats to all those that choose AquaCraft.

P.S. I bet we see a few more of those Revolts at the nats next year!

Take care and thanks again!

Grim

[xlandguy]

Motley Crews and Revolts, Yeah baby!!! Too cool. What a great picture. Is that girl a racer too? Congrats!

[Grimracer]

Motley Crews and Revolts, Yeah baby!!! Too cool. What a great picture. Is that girl a racer too? Congrats!

Not only is that a girl, but thats Miss Girl to all if us!.. Kylie is your new NAMBA Limited OPC national champion! And using a AquaCraft TS3!...

Congrats young lady (Miss Kylie.... scuse me..................)

I LOVE IT!

Grimracer

[properchopper]

Motley Crews and Revolts, Yeah baby!!! Too cool. What a great picture. Is that girl a racer too? Congrats!

Kylie is most def a racer ; won the National OPC Ltd. Class beating out Darin, Brian, David and Ken to name a few. Not bad for a 15 year old gal

[xlandguy]

Wow again, and congratulations, again. That is just so impressive, for all of you. And Miss Kylie? Unbelievable! What a great thing, she should get some sort of endorsment deal for sure.

[RCnerd]

Thanks! That stuff is perfect. It sets up fast and is ready to sand in 20 minutes! I found it at a place called Noah's (what a great name for a store that sells boat building supplies!) and fixed her up today. I also shamelessly copied your red paint idea for the tips of the sponsons. She's nice and perky again now.

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Another tip I got from this great thread was about the motor mount flexing forward. I noticed my mount had pushed forward over 1/8 of an inch. I added a piece of angled aluminum to the back side of the mount to stop it from getting bent forward while still being able to twist the motor upward a bit to make sure the motor lines up perfectly with the stuffing tube. I also have a thrust bearing on the motor to take the load off the endbell.

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Thanks for the posts! Helped me with stuff I'd never thought of!

Can you tell me what kind of paint to use for the red tips? THANKS!

[properchopper]

Can you tell me what kind of paint to use for the red tips? THANKS!

Got it at Hobby People :

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PS : While you're at it, there's one more red highlight/tip I did that adds another small "cool touch" - see post #70

[RCnerd]

Got it at Hobby People :

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PS : While you're at it, there's one more red highlight/tip I did that adds another small "cool touch" - see post #70

Thanks!! Your thread is really helpful!

[properchopper]

Breaking news

Thanks to our FE friendly NAMBA D19 Director Ted McKay, we're running four heats of P-Ltd Cat 6-lap Sprint this Sunday at the Legg Lake Scale Thunderboat race. Two Geicos, a Mystic, a MM, and my MC will swing it out on the oval. Yippee !!!

[properchopper]

The Beat Goes On !

OMG - Hard to believe the last post in this thread was 17 months ago with a lot of water under the sponsons since. Turns out P-Ltd Cat is alive, well and sprouting wings in SoCal. 2012 was the first P-Ltd Cat trial race class as mentioned in the last post and it was pure fun. Thanks to the the good graces of the D19 SCSTA [Southern California Scale Thunderboat Association] we had a 4-race series of P-Ltd Cat in 2013 and the good times kept rolling ! And ( with all modesty aside) my MC was the gift that kept giving [despite copious buoy smacks and rail bounce-offs]. It just doesn't quit

As of now there's 4 more P-Ltd Cat race dates on the calendar for 2014 and we'll likely have six (or maybe even) 7 entries competing. Seems the class is attracting gas/nitro guys/gals crossing over - great news but the only downside is that they know how to DRIVE !

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[ray schrauwen]

Me likee P-Limited Cat too Tony.

Modded Geico, AQ 1800kv motor SF120 esc, 2 x 4S 3000Mah 30C Zippies and a modded x447 D/T etc... Motor came back dang hot though, needed after cooling with icewater from a squeeze bottle.

[nitro557]

wow great wealth of info in this post thank you for bringing it back up . I had a impulse 31 that I had running good but met its maker in the form of a turtle at high speeds ,bought a mc hull swapped everything over and was so excited about how good it ran and handled that I didn't check heat and melted a motor and esc running a m445 prop .I was reading on here and thinking of cutting out the tub to hold down a ul1 motor but after reading this im gonna two part between the tub and bottom and use a ose front and rear mount ,im looking forward to spring now and looking into some club racing.the bikes keep me busy enough but speed is a addiction

[properchopper]

wow great wealth of info in this post thank you for bringing it back up . I had a impulse 31 that I had running good but met its maker in the form of a turtle at high speeds ,bought a mc hull swapped everything over and was so excited about how good it ran and handled that I didn't check heat and melted a motor and esc running a m445 prop .I was reading on here and thinking of cutting out the tub to hold down a ul1 motor but after reading this im gonna two part between the tub and bottom and use a ose front and rear mount ,im looking forward to spring now and looking into some club racing.the bikes keep me busy enough but speed is a addiction

Keep it light & loose. The mount you describe should help with the "trampoline bottom" , also the two-part mod. Jack the strut up a few degrees to raise the hull up under power to reduce drag & load on the electronics. You shouldn't have probs with the 1800KV motor & a 445 (make it sharp as possible). We run 2030KV motors with that prop for the mill + 6 lap races but things do heat up a bit.

Nice scoot ; more pictures ?

[btw Legg Lake also has copious turtles who just won't learn]

[nitro557]

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