Nitro Vee comes alive!

[TTKarl]

Well after alot of dissapointment with my father-in-laws nitro vee compared to my cen. After upgrading exhaust metal 440 prop hours of tuning needles, etc. Still had overheating problems would not plane just alot of agrivation. Well I run my grey thunder on 45% nitro like the manual says to. We were running the Nitro Vee on 20% the most traaxas says you can run. Well we decided the motor was a dog so we decided who cares lets give it some juice. I mixed 1/4 tanks 45% in with the 3/4 20% The boat came alive! I don't see why in one marine you can supposedly only run 20% and the other 45%. I'm gonna bump it up to a half a tank and see what happens. So far the overheating is gone the boat actually planes and top speed has increased slightly.

[haljmac]

just add about one once of castor 927, and you should be fine. I am running 65% in my 21, does good no propblems.

[TTKarl]

Well, I fixed the problem. Took the .16 out of my cen grey thunder and put it on the Traaxas. 45% nitro this thing runs 1000 times better than it ever thought about running with the traaxas motor in it. It seems that Traaxas would want their boat to look good. It didn't take that much to make this thing really run.

[scorpien boats]

i have a stock nitro vee (exept for the octura brass 440 prop)

and it runs like a dream........

[NFB]

I agree TTKarl! I followed Traxxas's reccomendations to stay at 20 percent and was somewhat bummed by the performance of the boat.. One day I put 30 percent O'donnell pink fuel in it and the boat came to life. I run the x440 on my boat as well. Thought I would be buying a new engine/sleeve after switching to higher nitro. No problems so far, my guess is the engine recieves more cool water from the pickup due to increased speed, it now runs much cooler. Hence, no problems. I've put about twenty tanks thru it at the higher % and the compression is fine. Go figure.