32" Wild Thing FE Conversion

[Darin Jordan]

Well... Time to build a P-Mono...

I've begun modifying this 32" wooden Wild Thing that I purchased on E-Bay. It's made of fairly rigid ply, and was destined to be a Nitro boat before I rescued it...

I did some trimming to the radio box to open things up and have the motor now mounted... When I get a proper hatch for it..., I'll trim the opening out to a shape appropiate for the hatch...

Next step is going to be to drill up the transom to mount the hardware so I can locate the stuffing tube assembly, which is going to be a flooded shaft variety, leading to a SpeedMaster Stinger setup...

More to come...

 

[anthony_marquart]

RESCUED IT?????? it's now damed to a life of no nitro!!! just kidding really. I would like to run a little electric rigger if I could afford to get started..

 

[Tom w]

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[BB Mods's]

What motor/esc are you going to run, back shot looks like my 1515/1y, But iv never seen that type of motor mount, would you share where you got it from?

 

[raptor347]

I had those motor mounts EDM'd by a friend because there wasn't anything available at the time. Darin got one of 5 pairs. Paul at www.fastelectricrc.com has a more refined production version with an integral ESC mount.

 

[Darin Jordan]

What motor/esc are you going to run, back shot looks like my 1515/1y

It's actually a 1521/1D... Or, put another way... "BIG & NASTY"...

 

[anthony_marquart]

I had a wildthing .12 in fiberglass. One of just a couple made I think. It was super fun to run.. I mis that boat more than any of the other boats I've sold...

 

[Ctonez]

...what's the status Darin?

I wanna see this thing.

 

[Darin Jordan]

...what's the status Darin?I wanna see this thing.

WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE!! I haven't had time to touch it since the last posts... but I will get back on it shortly...

It's going to end up being a little heavy, and I don't have a hatch figured out for it yet...

Meanwhile, I have a nice Maus Bullet 21 (32") that has everything there to make a great FE boat... I'm just concerned on it that it'll have too much lift for the speeds we'll be going... The strakes go quite a ways back... I can change that, but it's just more time... I suppose the price you pay for trying something different (other than a Delta Force Hull, in other words... )

 

[Ctonez]

WAY BEHIND SCHEDULE!! I haven't had time to touch it since the last posts... but I will get back on it shortly...
It's going to end up being a little heavy, and I don't have a hatch figured out for it yet...

Meanwhile, I have a nice Maus Bullet 21 (32") that has everything there to make a great FE boat... I'm just concerned on it that it'll have too much lift for the speeds we'll be going... The strakes go quite a ways back... I can change that, but it's just more time... I suppose the price you pay for trying something different (other than a Delta Force Hull, in other words... )

...that's why I'm going with the Triton. I like seeing several different hulls racing against eachother...besides, we'll see plenty of hull redundancy in SpecSV and OPC.

I'm way behind too. Only 2 boats out of 5 are ready. Doesn't look like the TS2 will take much to get ready thankfully. B)

 

[BulletMaster]

Darin...

is anyone still doing the Bullet series of boats? I would love a 38" version...

 

[Andrewg]

Darin...
is anyone still doing the Bullet series of boats? I would love a 38" version...

Tony - Hyperformance has Sam Maus' moulds. They are in Ca.

 

[Darin Jordan]

Well... I've sold my Maus Bullet 21 and my 35.4" Delta Force... so the Wild Thing will be getting the nod for P-Mono Duties officially now... no turning back!

I'll be getting back to work on it shortly... more to come...

 

[Darin Jordan]

Update!! I've been working very hard to get this boat ready for the 2008 FE Nats next month... Here are some pics of the progress... Should have the hardware bolted on by Friday and hopefully have it on the water for our races on Saturday...

Fitting the Hatch cover:

Adding the Spray Rails:

 

[Darin Jordan]

I decided to add some strakes:

And here is the final paint and finish work:

Hopefully I'll get the hardware and support systems installed by Friday for some fun and testing on Saturday!!

I'll post the final pics of the completed boat as soon as I get it completed...

 

[jstolz]

Darin,

The boat look's great. I can't wait to hear how well it runs. My brother is building two Wild Things. One for each of us. I am going to put an SV27 motor in it for our LSO spec class. I also bought a NEU 1515 2.5D to run it in P Offshore.

Jay

 

[Darin Jordan]

Darin,
The boat look's great. I can't wait to hear how well it runs. My brother is building two Wild Things. One for each of us. I am going to put an SV27 motor in it for our LSO spec class. I also bought a NEU 1515 2.5D to run it in P Offshore.

Jay

What size is he building?? This one would be too heavy, I think, for an SV27 system to work well... The hull is a tank... I'm powering this for P-Mono/P-Offshore using a Neu 1521 1.5D (1860KV) on 4S2P 4500 mAh Elites... I'll just prop down for Offshore (hopefully that'll work...)...

I'm hoping to eventually get a 27" version of one of these to do for N2... B)

I'll let you know how the performance is... Should be fast... just not sure about the handling yet...

 

[Darin Jordan]

OK Guys... Got it all assembled... Just have to plug in the RX tomorrow and then do all the final initial adjustments to everything...

With it sitting just like you see it here, it balances at 9.5" from the transom... Just shy of 30%... I can move the packs forward at least an inch, which moves the CG the same amount... One of the nice things about centering the heavy stuff about on the CG!

As long as things don't go up in smoke tomorrow evening on the bench, she'll get wet on Saturday!

 

[BulletMaster]

that's a great looking setup mate...

Hope it runs as good as it looks.

 

[Kris Flynn]

Up In Smoke?

It has a castle in it so it is very likely

Sorry, couldn't help myself...

As for the build, it looks awsome mate! Well done! You do some nice work... you also seem to have new boats every month or so which give you a chance to refine setups