working over my mean machine ....

[gsbuickman]

Around 2010 - 2011 I picked up a new 29" aeromarine mean machine hull.
Here's what she looked like in the original gel coat. She sure was purdy ....






She was running a pro-boat 3630 (1800kv) w/ the 45A pro-boat ESC, and pushed a cf prop with 2 traxxas powercell NiMH packs in series with a tactic radio. Not bad for an entry level sportboat setup in a sweet hull ....

[gsbuickman]

Well I ended up doing some tradin' with my pal Rick (l8rg8r) for it. Ricky had a couple gallons of plumb crazy purple paint burning a hole in his proverbial pocket , because mopar wasnt ready for paint yet, so he decided to paint a bunch of toys instead.

it don't look bad but if it would have been me I would have left it in the original gel coat. It looked damn nice & its a lot easier to see how she's reacting on the water. As you can see, I've already installed 10-32 hardware for the lid. The underside of the lid got a couple coats of spray on plasti-kote to seal it up after. Drilling all the holes in it...

[gsbuickman]

since I T had to use real long studs in the rear the hatch, I decided to run 10-32 studs all the way around the perimeter of the lid. The pro-boat setup was pulled for another project boat. I kept the water cooled motor mount and dropped in a fresh AQ 3656 (2030kv) & since the 60a AQ ESC went up on smoke, it was replaced with a 60a turnigy marine because its a single 4s sportboat setup.

The motor / ESC connectors were upgraded to 5.5mm and I replaced the tactic Rx with an sr3001 pro Rx for my m11 radio. I also soldered up a 5.5mm to deans sonnector adapter to plug into my deans series connector. The ESC got 5.5!mm bullets too..

[gsbuickman]

As you can see, the cells are 6000mah 28-45c 2s bulletpacks in series. I also have 5000mah 40c 2s gens ace & 2 thunderpower 3850mah 4s packs I can run in parallel. Now I need to build some battery trays. Industrial Velcro doesn't work well in this because of the stepped sponson's...

[Luck as a Constant]

Curious placement of your water pickup to the motor. What speeds are you getting?


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[gsbuickman]

Yeah yeah, I know the paInts not so good but it was like this when I got the boat back from Ricky . I guess I had enough time on the water with this thing, because I broke the end off the 3/16 AQ flex shaft r right behind the coupler. I replaced it with a 3/16 pro_-boat flex.

The prop is a back cut m442 that I sharpened & balanced. I also replaced the rudder with a nice 4 1/8" swing away rudder. It hangs 2 5/16" below the sponsors, I hope its enough.

[gsbuickman]

I also had an issue with the strut. When it was level with the sponson''s, it could only be raised 3/16 of an inch total which wasn't enough. I extended the slot in the strut with a ratail file down to the knifedge, another 3/16". now I have room to play with it .

[srislash]

What prop you got on there?

[gsbuickman]

Curious placement of your water pickup to the motor. What speeds are you getting?


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With the original setup, it was a low to mid 40's boat. I've been reworking it for the last 3 days because its been rainy and nasty here. with the new changes I'd be happy with a mid 50 mile an hour boat. I didn't like the original location of the thru transom h20 bung. it was a real pain in the arse to get to, so I relocated it and used the original hole for my antenna mount. I didn't want to cool the motor, mount & ESC off a single rudder pick up,
so I put another pick up in the low step in the sponson so its always in the water on plane. I put dual h20 outlets on both sides of the hull ....

[ray schrauwen]

I think your cable broke because of the extra bend the flex makes as it goes from the stuffing tube to the flex collet. I noticed it in the first set of pictures. Aligning that better will stop shafts breaking and increase speed.

[gsbuickman]

What prop you got on there?

Hi Shawn . It's a back cut s&b'd m442. If I remember right, it's close to a detongued 447 ....

[gsbuickman]

First run since outfitting the Meanie'

[gsbuickman]

2nd run after a strut adjustment, not too shabby .....

[gsbuickman]

Alrighty; I just soldered up 5.5mm connectors on the input side of this 60A turnigy ESC, then made a 5.5mm to deans adapter on 10 awg leads. Now I can plug in my series adapter, or run my single 4s & 5s packs. I've got 2 Venom 5000mah 25c 5s2p packs i've been waiting to try out, hope this ESC handles 5s 25c alright. I know the AQ 60A ESC handles 5s alright. Anybody tried 5s on these esc's ?.....

[Luck as a Constant]

working over my mean machine ....

It depends what motor youre running dude


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