Zonda cat

[atechbh]

Has anybody tried the carbon fibre Zonda cat and any opinions?

[martin]

Put Zonda Cat in the search, theirs loads of info on Zondas.

[petej]

I've had my ZondaCat since August 2012 and love it.
First thing to do is replace the stock, two-piece flex shafts with one-piece flex shafts.
2nd, the tray that mounts the receiver, servo batteries and your ESCs is held by dabs of hot-gun glue. I removed glue and stantions and replace with velcro.
Using Seaking-120 Amp ESCs and 5S, 30C batteries she runs in the low 50mph on smooth water. Otherwise, she handles light chop and small swells quite well.

Photos of my ZC.

[IRON-PAWW]

+1 to above comments. I also have the carbon fibre Zonda Cat and the one piece flex shafts are a must. The cooling lines that came with mine were just too small so I upgraded mine to a much larger diameter. RC Boatbitz also does an upgrade rudder with dual pickups which is a very good bit of kit. It is a wider rudder (from sharp edge to rear) which should help with turns, my Zonda never turned that well, I fitted the RCBB rudder but am yet to test. Mine has never quite been able to get to 50mph, except for the time I over propped on a short run, but that made plenty of heat. Boat does go well on 5S.

Run the batts as far toward the rear as you can, otherwise it will run too wet and you'll lose speed. I had to cut into the mounting tray so my batts would fit under the hatch. Easy to do. But some guys run their batts down to the rear of the motors on the edges. That'd be fiddly but it can be done. Nice boat for what it is.