Having used the Foildrive Akdurable fully integrated carbon mast on a Foildrive set up I could totally get the benefits from a stiffness perspective but mainly the reduction in drag from pod dips, on a slight negative is there is an increase In noise from the motor resonating through the carbon.
Like anything from FD they don’t come cheap but the additional £500 for the HP motor takes the biscuit!
Having seen it done by @foiling_moose on a Armstrong mast I bit the bullet bought the AK Integrated mast then ripped out all the Foil drive parts and converted it to fit a Flipsky 6384, along with sealing the underside of the mast to add my own mr60 connector.
Points to note:
- I did consider adding a plug on the motor like the FD but the cavity in the mast is huge with plenty of space to drop plug and cables down the mast (why add another potential failure point?)
- To attempt to reduce motor vibration I added a 1mm silicon gasket between motor and mast.
- Flipsky 6384 motor, replaced all 3 ceramic bearings with stainless steel.
