Well, Decided to post a little, and back up Doug Smock. The UL-1 controller, really, is all you need, and it is all that is legal in D12, other districts of IMPBA. I have burnt 120 controllers in the past, and as much as I hate to support a monopoly, the UL-1 esc has never failed me. I think if you start allowing dis-similar esc's, you might as well throw the whole class away. You gotta keep the motor and esc similar, that way you keep hull sizes similar. If you wanna be fast in a P-spec (sorry Doug, P-limited) environment you need to learn your setup, your hull, and your props. That is the cheat sheet in this class. Learning how to maximize the efficiency of your hull will win you races, and good driving of course! Hope this helped.
I was not going to self promote here, but I saw Hotwater mention my tunnel, and others were looking for difference choices, so here it is. This is the PS295 from MLBoatworks. It is based on a creation myself and Dick Loeb created, our Gas Tunnel hull the "L&L Special". I took my last 2 years of running all different brands of hulls there were on the market, finding what was wrong for an FE setup, and used the knowledge to create what I think is going to be a really good P-spec hull. I have built 5 so far, with another 10 on the waiting list. It is a WOF design, with a built in FE radiobox that has tons of room for any possible layout you might need. I plan on getting this into a nitro form as well in the very near future as the boat is responding very well to what I am throwing at it. It turns at any angle you need to go. It's fast, light, strong, doesn't hook (unless you get grass on the skeg like the video below-typical of a tunnel), and I have run it in 5" plus short chop with white caps and it powers through really well. It is also extremely predictable. When the boat scenes a bow lift, the design helps pull it back on the water. This also makes any possible blow overs VERY predictable as it gives you so much time to respond and back out of the throttle. Well, enough talk. Here is a video and some pics. It was calm in the video, but I really like the boat better with some race chop as its even faster!
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Good oval run, the spin out was due to grass on the skeg. 3 days of rain draining the college filled the pond all with that crap!
