Thundercat 31 / o.s. .21 VZ-M Mod.

[John Garner]

Hello my name is John. Pretty new at the whole rtr boating world looking for tips and tricks that will help along the way. Thankyou for looking at my project..

 

[John Garner]

So I started out with a stock TC31..

 

[John Garner]

Sanded her down. primer.

 

[John Garner]

Get her a lil paint start with the base coat of white...

 

[John Garner]

Tape it off...

 

[John Garner]

Let's add a lil Green, I like green...

 

[John Garner]

Peel the tape off....

 

[John Garner]

 

[John Garner]

VZ-M The new Heart of my TC31...

 

[John Garner]

Threw in the new Motor... Looks good.

 

[John Garner]

Servos... Prop.. ect.

 

[John Garner]

Had to move the motor forword about an inch. which means new motor mounts...

 

[John Garner]

Which means the flex shaft didnt fit correctly... And since I moved it forward, the header was too close to the fuel tank. So I put a new tank in.

 

[John Garner]

Went with a HPI header and a Mac Pipe muffled 3.5cc.



And my good friend Trespass made me a custom exhaust mount... Looks preety good..

 

[John Garner]

This thing can drink some fuel. So I decided to go with a dual tank setup. Yes I know It is over kill, But I dont plan on being in the water that long either... But it looks nice..

 

[John Garner]

Cut the cowl so the pipe will fit. looks ok, I need to clean it up a lil bit.

 

[John Garner]

Well she is still in the breakin period so I will keep you guys informed on how she is. Just so everyone knows, I did all this while I am on travel. I didnt have alot to work with. Sp please be nice. I know it's not perfact. Thanks for looking again

 

[M@MRacing]

Nice boat nice set up and paint job only problem is you wont be able to run with RTR a RTR consits of a factory built boat with a .15 to .18 engine out of the box you be able to run that in a different class and probably do good nice job

 

[John Garner]

Thanks M@M

 

[Ronnie Lambert]

Have you ran it any yet? I have this engine and pipe combo in a Vegas and I have only ran about 6 tanks through it for break-in, seems like it is going to be pretty quick. Also, what prop did you go with?