Hi John,
Well interesting point well made there, after having a Planet TX/RX issue which was resolved very helpfully by Howes Models in Oxford, I took her out with fellow Mayhemer Grub yesterday for a test run loosely fitted.
Well success
is all I can say, well...excusing the first 10 seconds when I got lodged on a tree in the lake
but after that was very happy
She is planing nicely nearly two thirds out the water (not quite full throttle) - OK, I know she is running just her shell....but once finished she is gonna be running just right
So onto your question, well after a 20 min run I bought her in and probably good job too, if we had a camping stove we could have made a brew down there !!! Boy was she hot
to the point you really couldn't touch it.
So to answer John - Yes, off this afternoon to purchase water cooling kit coil !!
Glad he didn't do too much damage to his boat !! I do like to test and test, before fixing everything into place finally just for that reason
.
So cooling to fit and some painting to do so will update all again soon !!
CJ