Graupner Arrow conversion.

[Doozie870]

Heres a couple pics of my arrow conversion from the graupner/steerable outdrive to a 800 with hughey hardware. This was a e-bay purchase as well, it looks like whoever painted it was in kindergarten, lol, so bare with the cosmetics as well as my sloppy building. :D

[Doozie870]

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[MoparB]

That thing looks like it's going to haul ass. :)

[Doozie870]

Started on some of the reinforcment today, I prefer carbon fiber strips the airplane builders use, its fairly cheap (two 3ft strips for $6) and easy to work with, I cut mine with snips and ca them in. The boat is already incredibly stronger, once the cross pieces are tied in, it will be a sherman tank like my EV, at least thats the plan.
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[SJFE]

lookin good man. Thats the same reinforcment that has to be done to a SH or CESA hull. It ot to be plenty stiff now.

[Doozie870]

Steering servo/linkage installed, boxed off where tube enters hull and epoxied, decided to section off stern from rest of hull, tired of chasing water around in the bow. Also cut notches in motor can so that I can advance timing if needed.
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[SJFE]

Looking good. Way to keep costs down. I need to take a page from your book there. I tend to get lazy and buy things I can make. Cant wait to see this thing run. How much longer you thing before it hit the water?

[Doozie870]

I wouldnt do it this way with a nicer boat, But in this case I sold the graupner hydrodrive for more than I paid for the whole thing lol. as far as first launch sometime next week, out of CA, Im paralized without it

[SJFE]

LOL take away my Devcon and I'm powerless also:D. This build has inspired me to go back to my first boat. I am thinking of finding a Kyosho jet stream 800. It's the boat that started it all for me about 10 years ago.

[Steven Vaccaro]

Love the innovative hardware! How is the motor held in?

[Eyekandyboats]

how big is that prop.

[Doozie870]

The motor will be held in place with the cross piece, the prop is a X646/3. Ed Hughey sent it to me, I must admit it looks proud back there. lol.

[MoparB]

Bitchin'. Yeah, that prop looks mean as hell.

[Doozie870]

Excuse the pics Ive been sailing with the captain!
At this point deck is attached to hull, this turned out to be quite a treat as the hull had contracted with all the CA usage, it needed to spread back about 3/4" to line up with the deck. Two people and a few layers of skin loss from the zip kicker and its on :D also ran some velcro down the center to hold the 12 cells, trying to keep the weight low and centered at this point. Believe it or not the boat is really close to a 30% cog from the stern. The last real obstacle is finish filling the area where the downward stern tube section was cut from the hull. Its all gravy from here!
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[saleens7]

nice build, looks like you did a lot of work to cut out the bottom of the hull...looks like it might need a bit of sanding out though..

[SJFE]

Nice goin Dooz. Time to getter wet:D.

[Doozie870]

Was hoping to do a quick sea trial before a day with mom, got up early to finish off, went to sand off the hobby putty I had put on for the stuffing tube filler ,and it turns out "sandable in 30 minutes" is a little off, in fact it was still goo after 15 hours, if you see this brand run from it!! (in pic) After lots of paper towels and some scrubbing got all that #$%@ off, and replaced with gel epoxy, still needs some more finish sanding, but the boat is real close now, aside from sharpening and balancing my first 3 blade lol.
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[Doozie870]

Well it looks like Ill be finishing this up on the road, Im starting to do some pretty good work in the motel lol. Let you know how she does in sundays race.

[Jeepers]

sweet! I get to race doozie this weekend!!! You make for some mean competition bud!!!

[Jeepers]

I got to see Doozies, Arrow run today, that thing has more power than I thought it would have, super fast! using a prather 215 prop he manged to take out a VICTORY 100 amp speed control , and only on 12 cells! Good job Dooze cant wait to see that thing run when its all dialed in!!!!

[Doozie870]

Thanks Sean..
Well the first run with the 3 blade, lots of torque roll and lots of porposing! I was concerned the cog was a little forward, this is not going to be an issue. A few more slow passes and the jeti blew up first time thats ever happened to me! The next day was much more entertaining, propped down to a 215 and put in a 100 amp controller, same issues, torque roll and porposing, so I thought I would just cruise around a little at slower speeds, then it happened, with no warning boat went to full throttle and stuck there round and round we went completly out of control, I finally got it into a tight circle with the rudder full over and made a plan with jeepers, there was a clump off weeds I thought I could hit, so pulled it out of the circle pattern and flew across the lake into the weeds/brush where it high centered about 8ft in!! still screaming btw, I waded out and retrieved it and disconnected the batts. The controller is fried again with a 215!!

[SJFE]

UGGGGGG sorry to hear that man.

[Doozie870]

The boat is fine, aside from the rudder a little jacked, stay tuned.

[Jeepers]

Hey Doozie, next run out try proping down to X435- X438 that might eliminate the torque roll and the less pith will unload that motor a bit, then maybe step up to a x637 I think this will help out alot. these props should take the amp draw down quit a bit. a 215 is some were between a x640 x642! :D You guys should here this arrow, the 800 just howls!

[Doozie870]

Sea Trial #2 attempt tomorrow..
I have replacement esc's in my hand! FE withdrawals shall soon be cured, moved the battery forward 3" and to the left (from stern) 1" also turned motor timing back to stock (i.e. 18) ,for a starting point. :rolleyes:

[SJFE]

Good luck buddy. Hope it works out for ya.:)

[Doozie870]

Was beginning to think the boat had some old german jinx on it until today, finally a couple of good runs, the pic is the battery layout at this point. Lots of tweeking still left to do, but made huge gains today.

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[Doozie870]

Put up a quick vid on rcflix of the shakedown run, cant seem to link it here for some reason.

[Doozie870]

There are some really cool builds going on here, so tomorrow will be my next to last post on this one, in the morning Im going all out! The bruiser 3 blade, timing advanced back up, and the gps or TS (tear jerker)

[Doozie870]

Took out another rchydro in about 15 feet, this time it surged briefly, then shorted wide open! AGAIN! this is turning out to be an entertaining feature on these, YeeHaw into the weeds at full throttle. the diode on the motor is blown in two pieces, Im putting this boat in the closet for a while.