carbon fiber inlay

[kfxguy]

I wouldnt say the Leo is going to be more powerful. They may be close, one perhaps with more
torque, the other more top end. I am curious to see which is best. Just because the Leo 4082 claims better specs then the 1515 doesn't make it true, can you try both motors in the geiko? Which of the two would you like faster? You may have to play around a bit, half the fun:) the Leo may surprise though#
I didn't know the boat didn't come in geiko green, I learned something! As farI as decals go, you probably know monojeff does decals. I.was surprised at how reasonable they are. I am using the factory fountain logo, lettering red to black with the chrome fountain insignia. Same as they have on there website. Doing that in a couple different sizes with a few of the insignias separate is as fat as I.have got.
Tough when I can't decide on paint. I like the geikio look, perhaps there's some graphic design you like, mono jeff can probably help you there to. He knows what looks good. There seems to be a lot of guys on here that know how to make look great. I am sure somebody will chime in, I may the only one sitting at home with nothing better to do (can do) then surf OSE and other sites all day. Looking for interesting ways to do my build. I ton of cf cloth, sheet, film, tapes and even braided cf for the stuffing tube. 9ft of that should be a lifetimes worth! My time will.come soon. Maybe a.couple more weeks! Your rescue vehicle on the other hand should be black with ghost flames and a skull with a knife driven through the top of its head, just because its a menacing water prowler. That look would give other rescue boats reason to stay away. Might even protect it on land to! Couldn't help it.

Ill try both motors for you and gps and video both. I have two sets of identical battery packs also. Ill try to do on the same day. Would you be willing to sell me a foot or so of the braided cf for the stuffing tube? Might look nice in my cheetah. Ill look the guy up you mentioned. Thx!

[Fella1340]

I wouldnt say the Leo is going to be more powerful. They may be close, one perhaps with more
torque, the other more top end. I am curious to see which is best. Just because the Leo 4082 claims better specs then the 1515 doesn't make it true, can you try both motors in the geiko? Which of the two would you like faster? You may have to play around a bit, half the fun:) the Leo may surprise though#
I didn't know the boat didn't come in geiko green, I learned something! As farI as decals go, you probably know monojeff does decals. I.was surprised at how reasonable they are. I am using the factory fountain logo, lettering red to black with the chrome fountain insignia. Same as they have on there website. Doing that in a couple different sizes with a few of the insignias separate is as fat as I.have got.
Tough when I can't decide on paint. I like the geikio look, perhaps there's some graphic design you like, mono jeff can probably help you there to. He knows what looks good. There seems to be a lot of guys on here that know how to make look great. I am sure somebody will chime in, I may the only one sitting at home with nothing better to do (can do) then surf OSE and other sites all day. Looking for interesting ways to do my build. I ton of cf cloth, sheet, film, tapes and even braided cf for the stuffing tube. 9ft of that should be a lifetimes worth! My time will.come soon. Maybe a.couple more weeks! Your rescue vehicle on the other hand should be black with ghost flames and a skull with a knife driven through the top of its head, just because its a menacing water prowler. That look would give other rescue boats reason to stay away. Might even protect it on land to! Couldn't help it.

[kfxguy]

Just went picked up the paint so I can repair it. Gecko green is what I ended up with. Saw another member with that color and I fell in love with it. Heck that's what color I thought the boat was gonna be originally because in a lot of the pics I saw of it before buying it......they looked more green than yellow. Now I just have to find a sticker kit. Maybe yiu guys could come up with something better than the factory sticker kit? Gimme some ideas! :)

[kfxguy]

I didn't realize you had a 1515 2200kv in there. Your still changing it out for a 2200kv motor, are you hoping for less torque and performance because its a Leo motor? I'm not familiar enough with the difference in poles/wind to even guess. The 26" boat I have is a R2 hobbies hull and my first build. It just recently became my learn the basics of cf boat. Turned out good. I haven't selected a new motor.for it yet, 2650kv seems like it would be a little much! I said first build, so far its one of one. The hull in my avatar is going to be number two. I have all the parts here for it (plus a hobby stores worth again) and its driving me crazy not being able to get to work on it. Recovering from back surgery at the moment and having a 5 year old is enough work at the moment! He loves the boats, good driver to! He's getting a hk genesis for Christmas, it will be seriously detuned from its already not so.fast stock self. It will be taller than him! He's loved the genesis since he first saw one and lucky for me the price is reasonable. We don't run where there's anyone else around. The only thing he can hurt is the boat (disclaimer for people who think that's to much boat for a five year old). Good luck on the rescue boat build, hopefully your new one will be able to slide underneath it the way the other one did. So many of the rescue boats I have seem rely on you lining the boat up and getting it between the arms. The way you could grab the boat from the side like that made it awesome. I hope you post the second generation of it, I have more than enough lying around to build one. What type of motor did you use?

I used my stock geico 1500kv motor on 2s with a big graupner prop. so I guess maybe the leopard motor is a bigger motor powerful series than my castle. Maybe castle will stay put and leopard in cheetah. Ill keep you posted on everything.

[Fella1340]

I didn't realize you had a 1515 2200kv in there. Your still changing it out for a 2200kv motor, are you hoping for less torque and performance because its a Leo motor? I'm not familiar enough with the difference in poles/wind to even guess. The 26" boat I have is a R2 hobbies hull and my first build. It just recently became my learn the basics of cf boat. Turned out good. I haven't selected a new motor.for it yet, 2650kv seems like it would be a little much! I said first build, so far its one of one. The hull in my avatar is going to be number two. I have all the parts here for it (plus a hobby stores worth again) and its driving me crazy not being able to get to work on it. Recovering from back surgery at the moment and having a 5 year old is enough work at the moment! He loves the boats, good driver to! He's getting a hk genesis for Christmas, it will be seriously detuned from its already not so.fast stock self. It will be taller than him! He's loved the genesis since he first saw one and lucky for me the price is reasonable. We don't run where there's anyone else around. The only thing he can hurt is the boat (disclaimer for people who think that's to much boat for a five year old). Good luck on the rescue boat build, hopefully your new one will be able to slide underneath it the way the other one did. So many of the rescue boats I have seem rely on you lining the boat up and getting it between the arms. The way you could grab the boat from the side like that made it awesome. I hope you post the second generation of it, I have more than enough lying around to build one. What type of motor did you use?

[rickwess]

I thought the 4082 would be a downgrade from the motor I have? I have a 1515 2200kv castle in it. The 4082 will be here's tomorrow so ill compare.

The 4082 is similar to the 1524 is you believe the printed specs.

[kfxguy]

You've got the geico moving good, now you want to put a 4082 in it? I would keep the trim tabs:) that's going to be a rocket! The rescue boat is awesome. Its the first one I have seen that goes underneath the hull and can grab it from any angle. I'm sure your going to miss it, time for the next level of rescue boat! That shocker was really moving to, what did you have in that? I have a 26" here that needs that kinda livening up! Its to bad you didn't get that little mishap on video, that sure would have been something to see. One minute everything is good, next carnage everywhere!

I thought the 4082 would be a downgrade from the motor I have? I have a 1515 2200kv castle in it. The 4082 will be here's tomorrow so ill compare.

The shockwave has a 1512 2650kv castle motor in it. That thing will scoot but its not stable. If you have a brushless one, put a higher amp (at least 60 amp) esc in it. Keep the stock motor. Run 4s in it with a 45mm graupner prop. That's the setup my son have and it does 35ish mph. With a 5400 mah battery it runs for about 20 mins lol. Does not run hot at all. What I have in mine is way too much. That's why im swapping everything over to the bling hull. Im hoping it'll be more stable.

My rescue boat.....im gonna miss it. It was so frigging awesome. It never failed me. It would even bring back my canopy and canopy seal. I hope my next one could live up to it. That thing would turn so sharp and was extremely stable and controllable.

[kfxguy]

It was running nice in the video. Half the fun is building them anyway.

Thanks. I honestly have more fun building it than running it.....weird I know.

[Fella1340]

You've got the geico moving good, now you want to put a 4082 in it? I would keep the trim tabs:) that's going to be a rocket! The rescue boat is awesome. Its the first one I have seen that goes underneath the hull and can grab it from any angle. I'm sure your going to miss it, time for the next level of rescue boat! That shocker was really moving to, what did you have in that? I have a 26" here that needs that kinda livening up! Its to bad you didn't get that little mishap on video, that sure would have been something to see. One minute everything is good, next carnage everywhere!

[rickwess]

It was running nice in the video. Half the fun is building them anyway.

[kfxguy]

Wholly s--t, you couldn't do that again if you tried!! Is there anything you didn't hit!? It seems you do a thorough job on everything you do! Seriously, that's a bad piece of luck. Now you can finish it exactly the way you want it. You might as well start where you left off on your last post with the rebuilding of MG. I for one would like to see you post the other boats your doing here. Sounds like you will be a busy guy. No time like the present to get started! Cool retrieval boat by the way. I wonder what the damage would have been like without the added carbon fiber you added? I hope the damage is more superficial than anything else. Congrats again on a very thorough job! Glad you could see the humour in it. Jeff

Thanks man. Look on YouTube under my user to see my vids. I have the retrieval boat on there. That thing is frigging awesome at how good it works. It had carbon fiber reinforcing in it too. No damage to any of the components or cf work. Just the cheap tupperware I used. Lol. Here's a sneak peak at the new recovery boat. Its gonna be fiberglassed.

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Here's one of my vids. My driving usually doesn't suck this bad.....the sun is in my eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgGST6OJedc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Like I said, click on my user name and you can see the recovery boat vids.

On a side note, ill fix the geico in the next few days and paint it a better green color like I wanted too anyway. Just gave me a reason now. Ill flatten and sharper the sponsons. Can't decide if I wanna remove the trim tabs. Them puppies really work. I can change the whole attitude of the boat with them. It does run a little wet scrubbing some speed. Im taking this power attempt out of this boat anyway and putting it into the cheetah. Then im putting a leopard 4082 2200 in the geico. I have a higher amp esc coming to.

[Fella1340]

Wholly s--t, you couldn't do that again if you tried!! Is there anything you didn't hit!? It seems you do a thorough job on everything you do! Seriously, that's a bad piece of luck. Now you can finish it exactly the way you want it. You might as well start where you left off on your last post with the rebuilding of MG. I for one would like to see you post the other boats your doing here. Sounds like you will be a busy guy. No time like the present to get started! Cool retrieval boat by the way. I wonder what the damage would have been like without the added carbon fiber you added? I hope the damage is more superficial than anything else. Congrats again on a very thorough job! Glad you could see the humour in it. Jeff

[lenny]

We need a thread just for the blooper video's,
To make us all feel better at times like this.

[kfxguy]

Ok where the video of all that fun you just had.

Im uploading my horrible driving to youtube right now. Stay tuned. Unfortunately I didn't get my stupid wreck on video. Kinda wish I had so I could go back a remind myself how dumb I was. Lol

[lenny]

Ok where is the video of all that fun you just had.