Digging an old thread up... @Will Gallagher , do you still happen to have your monokai? I used to have one with a slightly modded Veco .19 when I worked for Charlie Pottle at Marine specialties in Saratoga, CA back in 1976. I'd love to find another or at least build one up. Originally bought it new from Gary Johnson and ran it at at the perf ponds near Los Gatos.
wow, that boat is fast! Only a 3.5cc. I believe those are FSRV class mono hulls? I noticed the prop/drive is far forward than typical (underneath the hull).
pretty cool. Looks to be a .21 size hull. Is that a O.S. .21 marine? I would use a new tuned pipe (ie. NovaRossi, CMB, OPS, etc.,...Although I guess a new .21 car pipe would work?). Can't tell, did you re-paint orange?
I had to strip his orange to get it back to a base to paint it. the paint was something not fuel proof and someone messed finish up trying to sand the black stripes off. so as much as I hated to had to strip and repaint it. I put a 3/16 flex shaft in it too since it had a small one and wouldn't handle that os 21 I don't think. I'm going to try to use primer with hardener hopefully it will cover the raw wood so I can get paint on it. was a mess to strip.
This is as high as I can get I will try this and see how she goes.I checked the bottom and the last 10 inches of the pad are flat but there is a concave in the shaft area where it goes into the hull maybe 1/16 of inch concave. Edit to last post ... My son and I were noticing the rudder servo would move 50 degrees or so then pause and then move fast on to next position and once replaced it was smooth. It could have been the jerky servo causing some of the spin out problems as well. I put exponential in the steering to try to make it smoother when I noticed this problem. cheap china servos.....
I just put this tube in there and painted it .. darn.... I am unsure what to do I would have to change the engine mount angle and all to change the tube angle now.
I can try flattening the tube some more before it enters the strut. It has a turn fin on the right side now as well as the center fin under the boat if that is what you meant .
I think it is a boat made around 1975 or so unsure if the norco or the northwind was made first, I do want to give it the ole college try and see what I can do with it. I love these old boats, I will have to try to pitch up a small prop and try it.
definitely need to re-do brass stuffing tube, should be nice & straight entering the strut. Start out with strut as parallel as possible.
I went and ran it again Sunday and it worked best with the strut low and a x637 prop. I just don't think this boat likes the high strut.
