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Just looked at my boat and I do not have a clamp or zip tie on the line. You usually don't need them.Leave a comment:
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Hi, I'm putting a stainless water outlet on my steathwake and was wondering if you used a hose clamp to connect the water outlet to the tube?Leave a comment:
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Oddly I realized that when starting to design the color scheme for my mono build it looks strikingly similar to the Stealthwake.
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This hull isn't really made to go these speeds. Yesterday I was running around 30mph with an Octura M645 on 2S. I brought the boat in and noticed this fairly bad damage where the rudder mounts. This aluminum rudder even has a backing plate behind it but the hull just isn't designed for theses high speed stresses. I bet that this area of the hull was damaged from some of my faster wrecks and it finally gave way yesterday. The boat actually still runs fine and I continued to run it after I found this crack. I still like this boat at least as much as some of my much bigger faster boats. Maybe even more. This has been a great project but my opinion is that for maximum FUN, this boat is best left close to stock. Ideally it would have a small water cooled brushless motor and ESC and a metal prop. Keep the speed around 20-25mph and maintain that fun rough water ability. I believe that the Impulse 31V2 stainless prop is the same pitch and diameter as the stock plastic Stealthwake prop (1.6x 40mm).
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Haha! Thanks guys. It's been a lot of fun. Kind of different from the bigger boats that we're always talking about. Rafael, has there been any talk about adding the brushless version to the Pro Boat lineup? I'm not sure how that would fit into the lineup and how much you would have to charge, etc, etc. But I do think that it would be a really fun boat. I think a Stealthwake with a brushless motor and a water cooled ESC that did around 25mph would be an amazing RTR boat. Maybe eliminate the battery and charger to bring the price point back down a hair. 2S max battery. Oh and then there's the fiberglass Stealthwake 30 that you need to develop....
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Since the last 3S run went so well I started questioning why the 4S testing went so badly. So I tried 4S again with the M645 prop and flatter water. Much better results this time. I still had a bad crash but the boat ran a lot better and hit 47.2mph. That's not very fast for the group of guys on this message board but I feel like its really fast for this short, narrow, plastic deep-V that originally did under 20mph.
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I've been thinking about trying 4S in this boat and finally did yesterday. This hull is a handful on 3S and 4S was pretty nuts. The water probably should have been smoother when I was running the boat and I had some rough wrecks. In most conditions, at these speeds, this boat is really on the edge of wrecking all the time. One put a 1.5" long crack in the hull right in front of the stuffing tube but perpendicular to it. The crack didn't leak much so I kept on running it. Most of the wrecks were with a M645. I tried the V940/3 and was only able to get 40.3mph out of it. I switched down to 3S, the water must have calmed down, and the boat ran beautifully on the M645. Top speed was 38.9mph. I have never been able to replicate the earlier 44mph run on that prop.
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I forgot to update this thread a week ago when I tried an Octura V940/3. Nothing special really. 33.2mph on 3S. I was trying to find a smaller diameter prop with a higher pitch to help the boat handle better. The V940/3 has a lot of rake and a ton of slip during acceleration. After that I ground down the stock water intake and filled it
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I ran a couple different props on the Stealthwake yesterday. The first was an Octura N940 which has a high pitch and tiny blade area. It didn't work to well. 33.5mph on 3S and 19.4 on 2S. The second prop was a plastic Octura chopper style with 1.8 pitch and 46mm diameter. The boat didn't handle well with this prop and ran 32.5mph on 3S and 22.4 on 2S.
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