New & Improved Boats

DarkTari · Post by **DarkTari** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 2:28 pm

Here Ya go Cabo, TE's got your boats. Readig specs it's suppose to be twice as fast as the series 1
http://www.toyeast.com/subcatlist2.asp?catid=1059

payaso · Post by **payaso** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 3:14 pm

Guess what I'm a orderin tonight?lol Thanks for the info DT...

EDIT: Just noticed it only comes in 40mhz, will be cool to have 3 boats racin with my 40mhz one being the fastest of course...

silla

Post by **CaboWabo** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 3:17 pm

arrrggg - son of a....
shiat that blows, wish I woulda waited.
that's exactly what the 1st generation boats are missing, just a bit more power.
good find DT.

Stoli · Post by **Stoli** » Mon Jul 14, 2003 3:52 pm

C-Dub. Did you see the thread in Da-Hook up? about the Boats? Now I bet you really wish you had waited?

DarkTari · Post by **DarkTari** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 8:18 am

payaso wrote:Guess what I'm a orderin tonight?lol Thanks for the info DT...

EDIT: Just noticed it only comes in 40mhz, will be cool to have 3 boats racin with my 40mhz one being the fastest of course...

silla

Nah Mang, They come in 27mhz, 40mhz, & 49mhz, so anchors away ol chum!

http://www.toyeast.com/subcatlist2.asp?catid=1060

Namuna · Post by **Namuna** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:19 am

Pssst, NKOK says there's no such thing as 2nd Generation boats...That means ToyEast is selling MODIFIED boats folks as 2nd Gen.

Whether that's good or bad, up to you, but know it's a Modded boat.

Post by **CaboWabo** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:34 am

I've been looking all over these boats for a good place to get in the boat.
You can tell the boats were molded in 2 pieces, a top and a bottom. The bottom includes the majority of the boat. It seems as if they heated the plastics and fused them together. There are no tell tale creases or cut lines from where the plastic would have met (telling us its probably been heated and fused).
The spots where the two plastic pieces have been joined are not going to be easily cut. I'm looking for alternative areas to cut and get in to the boat.
There are several things we have to think about here, mainly to do with putting the boat back together. Boyancy (sp?), just being slightly off will render the boat almost useless if not totally useless, this is proven by the lean in the boat I have now, the side it leans on turns fine, the opposite side doesn't. The boats already site very low in the water at the end of the boat. When cutting the boat and re-fusing it back together, if we take off just a little too much height, our boats going to fill with water and flip or sink. And what about fusing the boats back together? we need something that isn't heavy and that goes on evenly so we don't create a lean or have the boat sitting too low in the water.

I'm still searching - I will rip open one of these boats - though I honestly don't see a whole lot of good potential here.

payaso · Post by **payaso** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 12:57 pm

Namuna wrote:Pssst, NKOK says there's no such thing as 2nd Generation boats...That means ToyEast is selling MODIFIED boats folks as 2nd Gen.

Whether that's good or bad, up to you, but know it's a Modded boat.

I guess if anybody's gonna mod one for sale, they'd be the best for the job..

silla

Post by **CaboWabo** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:05 pm

I just noticed a few differences in the image above and the boats I got:

- controller pads (white in pic - transparent red on mine)
- motor wells / props (red in pic - white on mine)
- charging stand clips (red in pic - black on mine)
- antenna on boat (red in pic - black on mine)

not that any of that means anything - just an observation

payaso · Post by **payaso** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 1:11 pm

Well they have to have something up their sleeves, cause NKOK don't offer the boat in 40Mhz, and TE does..

silla

DarkTari · Post by **DarkTari** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 2:25 pm

The TE boats are not NKOK they're made by Hongyan so it's probably upgraded while at the factory.

Pie · Post by **Pie** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 8:04 pm

TE does some funky stuff. they did something odd to LXX, calling them type-R and type RS... they also put their own bodies on them, and have a new 40 mhz generation...

hell, they even put them in a new box, so im not suprised they go modding boats and selling them again.

imo, they gotta be better than the original boats

BananaGuy · Post by **BananaGuy** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 1:26 am

I'm am not saying the boat is not bad or anything ok.

Honestly I would say with NKOK boats. The other kind are imitation copies.

Plus NKOK gives you a 90day warranty. 3 months times we're talking about.

Yes NKOK boats are more expensive, so it's a get what you pay for type deal.

micromatch · Post by **micromatch** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 10:48 am

i have modified my nkok boat no problem i put clone motors in the back by stripping thewirsand soldering them on oto the new motor and it goes mutch faster.i would rate the motors inside the boat about a 1.6 and the ones i put in about a 3.8 wth tourqe

payaso · Post by **payaso** » Sun Oct 26, 2003 12:22 pm

micromatch wrote:i have modified my nkok boat no problem i put clone motors in the back by stripping thewirsand soldering them on oto the new motor and it goes mutch faster.i would rate the motors inside the boat about a 1.6 and the ones i put in about a 3.8 wth tourqe

How did you get it apart, and back together?

silla