1/6 Scale Drag Boats

[Jrod2604]

Ron is your boat sealed up all the way? Was curious when i saw your photos, looked like u had the esc wires coming out the back of the capsule and the hull was not sealed, just curious, i put a back on my capsule and sealed the hull completely, hope for the best i guess to not have that problem, still waiting on some stuff on mine, not in a rush!

[Jrod2604]

Your boat has definitely gave us all some inspiration to get ours done, it would be awesome to get us all together and have a play day, lake ming or up north is good with me!

[GoFastNow]

Ron is your boat sealed up all the way? Was curious when i saw your photos, looked like u had the esc wires coming out the back of the capsule and the hull was not sealed, just curious, i put a back on my capsule and sealed the hull completely, hope for the best i guess to not have that problem, still waiting on some stuff on mine, not in a rush!

No mine is not sealed up all the way around. When I drive this monster, I set it in the water, then walk about 250 ft down the shoreline, line it up straight with the shoreline, then send it. When it comes to a stop, give a few small blips of throttle to get to shore then pick it up out of the water. No oval course for my boat. This seems to work great, and I am not tearing up parts from running a full charges thru it. To me, 12 cells is a little.....well, it will get your attention right now, so I am careful with where and when I drive it. As far as getting together, I have a open invite to bring these to Lake Ming drag boat races, I am sure they would like to see more than one. I think if this was put in front of the right people (Drag boat people), Randy would sell a bunch of this boat.

[Jrod2604]

How did u recover it when it sank, how deep was it?

[GoFastNow]

How did u recover it when it sank, how deep was it?

The boat was in about 4 feet of water when it sank. The sponsons were sticking straight up about about 5" above water. A $140 billet steering servo leaked and its trash, all else is good. I plan to put a go-pro on it this week, it should show mph, g-force telemetry. Should be cool, I will post when I run it.

[Jrod2604]

Well atleast it didnt go to the bottom, sucks about your steering servo, i guess the sponsons filled with foam is a good thing! Glad thats all u have to replace, lookin forward to getting my batteries and gps asap so i can finally get some test passes!

[ranger18]

I am new to this, so bear with me! I am building a replica of my fathers 1967 Stevens flatty using a SK Daddle 60 kit. I have a seeking 180 and a leopard 4082 1600 KV motor going to try and keep this thing under 6 lbs. hopefully it will be fast enough. My plan is to have a servo controlled cav plate, will post some pictures soon. My father raced top fuel in the 60's and my mother finally had enough of him traveling all over the place so she said the car goes or she goes, well my father sold the cars and bought a Stevens took one of the Hemi's and put a 1050 dominator on it called it a family boat to make my mom happy. He then decided he was going to race the boat, he held the record on Perris lake for a bit in un-blown gas flat, then proceeded to build one of the TF hemis to run on gas needles to say mom was not pleased. I came across this thread and Love you guys work quality stuff, and noticed most of you are local I am in Frazier Park, I have the 1/6 th scale hemi that I am going to make the block out of glass then re assemble it, I have a question for Jrod where did you get the spun fuel tanks and are the hollow?

[Jrod2604]

The spun fuel tanks i got from a guy back east who builds pullers, the 2 i have are a bit small for the hydro i have but may work on a smaller hull, yes they are hollow and do not hold fuel, they are basically just for looks

[Jrod2604]

Sorry for the late reply, havnt been on the Forum in a bit

[srislash]

Hey guys, has anyone checked on Mack products for a V drive unit?
Look down the page here: http://www.mackproductsrc.com/power%20units%20-%20q.htm

I was thinking the nylon gears m would be quieter/more efficient. Just a thought.

[Fluid]

It depends on the power used. The 1541 unit is not a vee-drive per se, the gears are parallel to each other (see below). Using universals to achieve a ?vee-drive? functionality may cause unwanted vibration at high power levels. We don't know the gear pitch, which does matter - at high power levels a lower pitch is an advantage as I was told years ago by the owner of MRP. He used a higher finer pitch ratio in his gear box than Hughey did (32 vs 24) and regretted that choice.

[srislash]

It depends on the power used. The 1541 unit is not a vee-drive per se, the gears are parallel to each other (see below). Using universals to achieve a ?vee-drive? functionality may cause unwanted vibration at high power levels. We don't know the gear pitch, which does matter - at high power levels a lower pitch is an advantage as I was told years ago by the owner of MRP. He used a higher finer pitch ratio in his gear box than Hughey did (32 vs 24) and regretted that choice.

Thanks for the input Jay but I was thinking more of the 2800 drives. Thinking one motor and two props. I do imagine the same gears are used.
I just reread description and it states up to 1.5 cu in max gas motor. Gonna have to do some math,lol

[RCDBA]

Hi Guys, any new news, pics, videos? Im trying to get some racing going in Ca. My user name stands for RC Drag Boat Association. I have a Facebook page also called RCDBA. I would love to get any content on there you guys have. Hoping to get my deposit in on a 1/6th next week. Currently I have 1/10th scale hydros.

[ranger18]

RCDBA I am in CA and almost done with a replica of my dads old Stevens check it out https://forums.offshoreelectrics.com...my-first-Build

[RCDBA]

Ranger, dude...that’s amazing! Where in Ca are you?