I am in the process of upgrading my Villain EX. Just installed and RC Hydro's ESC, Upgraded the wiring, and will soon add the Trinity Monster Maxx Motors.

My question is would it be worth it to replace the two steerable props with a seperate Prop and Rudder System. Would this upgrade really increase the performance of the boat or is this too large and expensive of an upgrade for this "intermediate" boat. I was going to upgrade the props and shafts with Octura, but wanted to ask this question first before I order b/c if I do install a seperate rudder system, I will obviously need to get a flex drive shaft instead.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Changing to a single motor set-up is certainly major surgery. (read Bryan's thread on converting a Hammer to 700 surface drive on offshore to get an idea of the work involved)

The boat will react quite different from the current two-motor set-up.

If it's going to be a lot faster, I can't say, as I have only converted single 550 motor boats to a 700 set-up.

The 14,4 V is the max for the two motor set-up, where as you can run a 700 motor on 12-14 cells.
If the boat runs free even 16 cells are possible.
Then it would definately be much faster (and a handful to control...).

Regards, Jan.