GRX SAW RiGGER

[urbs00007]

grx rigger

hope it works good for you gil. you showed a cooling mod for the t-180 esc, will it over-heat running the 4082 2000kv in oval rigger set-up?

[grsboats]

Thanks Crisg/Urbs my team is confident to go well.....we will have four boats ...three Fe and one equipped with a Nova 46.To me this mod sounds more efficient compared to the stock water cooling sistem....I know that 6S with this motor/esc will require special attention to the diam of the prop....44-45 mm will keep you in the safe side.Gill

[urbs00007]

hi gil. looking at your build i notice you put esc behind motor. did you extend wires on esc to batteries and to motor? if yes on the batteries do you need to add more capacitors than sent with the stock esc from offshore electric? how often do you grease 3/16 " flex cable? thank you sir. hope you break 130 mph at your race!!

[grsboats]

I only extended the wires to motor no need to batteries and no extra capacitors as I only run this boat on 6S .After every lake session I use to grease my flexshaft ...a mix of light grease and light oil .If you take a look to the strut I have a small nipple that allows me to grease the solid shaft when needed.Thanks and hope so. Gill

[martin]

Gill what strut is that, i take it is 3/16" or is it a modded 1/4" strut & is it lead teflon bushes in their rather than the floating bush. Regards Martin.

[grsboats]

Martin the strut is the Hor 3/16 ver 3 with teflon bushing.On my other boat I have it with the floating bush working also good.Thanks Gill

[RaceMechaniX]

Gill,

How did the event go?

TG

[Brushless55]

very nice looking rigger...

[grsboats]

Well we had a nice event with people from all over the country.Mother's nature definitevely didn't cooperate on saturday when big blocks and gassers went to water.With 4" waves they struggled to keep boats on water and trials were posted poned to today .I went to water in the afternoon but had a very bad luck first with a loosen motor screw destroying the back of my MBP collet that I fixed with a new one.Then after a good first pass of 115mph the flexshaft just broke keeping me out of the competition.At least I could get a try to the new Ice 240 that outperformed my SF 300 with the Neu 1527.I will donload the data and see how everything worked on the boat but it was noticeble that the Castle suits better the 6S configuration on my boat.Now its time to review the Project and have it ready for our next event in august.in this meantime a new boat is under construction and will post the pics soon.Thanks Gill

[Chrisg81983]

Wellllllllllll

[grsboats]

thanks Brushless 55 Gill

[RaceMechaniX]

Congrats on the 115mph speed Gill. That's a pretty good result given the conditions from the sounds of it.
Good to hear the Castle worked well.

TG

[grsboats]

Thanks Tyler and for your advice on the Castle.It worked flawlessly from its start with no issues.I've been running saw with nitro riggers since 2003 but Fe boats are definitevely another chapter.There's much more to learn about them from now on.Gill

[urbs00007]

saw rigger

115 is pretty good gil. why did your flex cable break? loctite motor screws . I was told electric motors dont need loctite. you just proved that fact was wrong. any video on your previous runs yet? you said camera man was on vacation.

[grsboats]

I've been working hard with this Project so that speed is quite good but doesn't make justice for the real potential of this boat.The flexcable broke near the collet maybe because the MBP was seriouly damaged by the motor screw.....and yes I use loctite everywhere but you must have heard of Murphys law .Gill