The UK KEP's T2-21 trio is complete

Finally the final two (of 3) of the new UK built KEP's T2-21's by the dynamic racing trio that is called LM Racing UK has hit the testing drink! ;)

LM Racing Web.

Leon Morgan - OS powered KEP's T2-21.

Phill Fields - A/A .21 powered KEP's T2-21.

Martin Fields - NR powered KEP's T2-21.

UK T2-21 sucess!

In his first ever hydro heatracing event Martin Fields drove his brand new KEP's T2-21 rigger to a second pace at the Elmbridge Club event Sunday June 16. Looking good Martin! :)

Check out more pics from the event HERE.

Want to build one yourself? If so, start HERE.

Swedish #3-2012 Hydro & 3.5 Tunnel Nats

The third Swedish Hydro and Outboard 3.5 Tunnel nats was raced September 8-9 2012 in Oxelösund in beautiful weather. Here are the podium pics and unofficial results - the rest of the pics will be uploaded next week. :)

Update: More pictures HERE.

The KEP's T2 .21 Project album is updated also.

FSR-H15:

1. Mickael Pertulla / Eagle 90 / K90 / Futaba 4PL
2. Bengt Björkhage / Eagle 90 /K90 / Futaba 4PKS
3. Mikael Gartne / Eagle / OPS 90 / Futaba

FSR-H 3.5:

1. Niklas Edlund / KEP's T2 / OS / Futaba 4PL
2. Mikael "Sunken" Sundgren / KEP's T2 / TecnoPower M3 / Futaba 3PM
3. Owe Holmstedt / KEP's "09" / CMB Valvola

FSR-H 7.5:

1. Niklas Edlund / KEP's T2 (21) / TecnoPower .23 / Futaba 4PL
2. Fredrik Lundahl / JAE 45G / AA 45 / Futaba 4PL
3. Fred Brihagen / Eagle / K45

OTA 3.5:

1. Niklas Edlund / Acuacraft TS3 / TP M01 - OS rig / Futaba 4PKS
2. Mikael "Sunken" Sundgren / VS1 / K&B / Futaba 3PM
3. Viktor Nordström-Käll / HTB290 / OS

The local magazine was there also:

Pictures from 2012 NAVIGA World Champs in Dessau

2012 NAVIGA FSR Worlds in Dessau Germany

My Picasa Web album is now complete from the NAVIGA 2012 FSR World Championships. In total 278 pics mainly from the hydroracing. In the linked webalbum you can also see the results from all finals including FSR-V (even though we left before the V finals).

Personally I had a good time in Dessau and I finished second in Hydro 3.5! :)

The KEP's T2 .21 (prototype) rigger (yes, it will be a freebie PDF later this year) worked really good in the tough NAVIGA style heat racing but it will take some more practicing to get the starts perfect. Its not easy when you have a fast boat that runs really light on the water and you race against 7 other boats... ;)

Ciao for Now,

/ Niklas

Many more pics can be found HERE & HERE.

Swedish Champs #4 FSR-H7.5

Our local club in Oxelösund hosted the last FSR-H nats of the year September 3. The H15 and H27 class was canceled due to to few registered racers in these classes... So the complete race was run in one day in absolutely perfect weather. :)

Swedish Nats #4 FSR-H7.5 results:

1. Anders Martinelle / 1600p / OMSK / Eagle / CMB / Futaba 3VC
   
2. Mikael Sundgren / 1500p / OMSK / Eagle / MAC / Futaba 3PM
3. André Holster Westerberg / 1025p / KRCBK
4. Torbjörn Carlsson / 900p/ NMBK
5. Niklas Edlund / 700p / OMSK / KEP's T2 / TP .23 / Futaba 4PL
6. Fredrik Lundahl / 419p / NMBK
7. Christer Gustafsson / 50p / Karlskoga RCBK
   

Martinelle's winning 7.5 rigger.

Mr. Sunken was flying.

Tobbe's .45 on the water.

Swedish #2-2011 Nats in FSR-H & OTA

May 18-19 we raced the second hydro and outboard tunnel nats just north of Ludvika in Sweden. We had some rain and some waves but overall the weather was way better then what we expected.

Pictures from the race.

Final Results H3.5:

1. Ulf Olsson / ZippKits JAE 21 / VAC21
2. Stefan Adolfsson / BlackBird G2 / Picco / Futaba
   
3. Mattias Bengtsson / KEP's 21 / Novarossi / Futaba
   
4. Niklas Edlund / KEP's T2 / TP M03-21 / Futaba
5. Mikael Sundgren / KEP's 21 / CMB Valvola / Futaba
6. Bo Sandström
7. Fredrik Lundahl / ZippKits JAE 21 / Novarossi
8. Torbjörn Carlsson
9. André Westerberg Holster
   

Final Results H7.5:

1. Torbjörn Carlsson
2. Niklas Edlund / KEP's T2 / TecnoPower .23 / Futaba
3. Ellert Ohlsson
4. Mikael Sundgren
5. Fredrik Lundahl
6. Mattias Bengtsson
   

Final Results H27:

1. Jan Kronstrand / FireFighter
   
2. Bosse Ankerstedt
3. Tomas Nilsson
4. Thomas Myrén
   

Final Results OTA (stock .21 tunnel):

1. Niklas Edlund / TS3 / OS / Futaba
2. Bo Sandström / HTB290 / K&B / Futaba
3. Mattias Bengtsson / HTB290 / OS / Futaba
4. Viktor Nordström-Käll / HTB290 / OS
5. Stefan Adolfsson / TS3 / OS / Futaba
6. André Westberg Holster / VS1 / OS
7. Torbjörn Carlsson / TS2
8. Mikael Sundgren / VS1 / K&B / Futaba
9. Fredrik Lundahl / Bandit

KEP's .21 T2 Prototype

Update (October 2012):  I'm happy to announce that Friday November 2 2012 I will publish a completely new PDF template freebie design - the KEP's T2 .21. So welcome back soon and download the next generation racing outrigger hydroplane freebie! Read the T2 presentation HERE.
 
Ok, here we go. Last year me and my race buddy "Mr. Sunken" came to an agreement that we needed to take our rigger know-how forward as we booth felt that the std KEP's design was at it's limit. But with that said, the old-school KEP's design has worked very good for us with me finishing third at the latest NAVIGA FSR-H 3.5 worlds in Hungary so its still a good performing boat design I think... ;)

As you can see the new T2 project boat in these pics has got its inspiration from some "Japanese" type of boats, some "JAE" and some ideas of my own of course.

Do note, the KEP's T2 is a prototype project that we will develop this summer so its far from a finished design at this time! We have multiple versions of it with different tubs, sponsons, running surfaces, skis, engine placement and after-plane lengths etc... So it's basically no idea to ask me specific questions about it/them yet as we have hardly started testing them. We'll see what we learn this summer and how the finished KEP's .21 T2 rigger will end up looking like in the future. The pics show some of the first day of testing and even after the video was shot, and the pics where taken, we did some changes that improved it's performance. :)

The very first day testing it was blowing a steady 5-7 m/s wind and the water was changing from "90-size-boat-choppy" to almost white water. The pics & video where shot when it was the calmest.

If a completely new boat project was'nt enough we have some new engines to test also! We will use the new power plants from TecnoPower in these new T2 boats and in this one its a box-stock TP M03-21 engine that is not modified in any way or form. As the M03 comes without any carb and flywheel I used the proven Charles Perdue made Zoom carb (15 mm neck dia) and a flywheel from Solinger on my M03 engine.

TP M03-21 engine info.

The strut, rudder & engine mount rails comes from BB Hardware.

KEP's T2 .21 wins first Swedish nats of 2011.

To be continued... :)

/Niklas Edlund