Boats with big motors thread

Aurel · Aurel's Garage

A summer thread

Too much power can be fun, and sounds great. I will start with that one:

Jim Richards · 07-26-2010, 06:37 PM

big "motors"

notfarnow · 07:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Aurel

A summer thread

Too much power can be fun, and sounds great. I will start with that one:

I kept waiting, with great anticipation, to see him turtle the %$#&ing thing

FRiend of mine has a beautiful little cottage on the beach of Bellisle Bay. Place has been in his family for 3 generations. Cousins, parents and grandparents any given weekend.

Two years ago, the cottage next door sold to someone with a big-a$$ stinkboat, like the one in the video. Those tricks are neat for, like, 2-3 minutes. After a few consecutive weekends of listening to that till 1-2 in the morning, it's not such a great place to spend a weekend with toddlers and grandparents. My buddy's father is a retired school principal from a ROUGH school. He has dealt with some crazy, tough stuff in his 30+ yrs, and is one calm, collected man... but after a couple years of having his quiet family summer home ruined by inconsiderate *********s, I see him bordering on life-changing violence.

Just remember, as neat as that video is, someone lives next door. Probably just woke up their 2 year old or grandmother so they can do ANOTHER wheelie

enzo1 · 07-26-2010, 07:08 PM

sammyg2 · 08:22 AM

i used to have an 18' flatbottom with a supercharged chrysler hemi when i was 24 and I decided to enter the drag race circuit. The engine had all the go-fast goodies, tricked out as far as I could take it. Things that bring tears to a gear-head's eyes.
i volunteered at Mert Littlefield's shop just to learn the tricks.

it wasn't as glamorous as it sounds.

I was making about $22 an hour at the time and spent about $35k in three months just on the motor, and it was already putting out well over 1000 hp when I started.
It was running in the mid to high 7's when I ran out of parts and money.
I had it up on one plate at over 120 mph once, soiled my suit. The only thing that brought it back down with the right side up was the huge rotating mass of the motor. When I got out of it the inertia rotated the boat so it didn't keep going over.

I went around 150 in the quarter in a friend's drag hydro once, that's when I decided it wasn't for me. Stuff happens real fast at that speed on water. too fast to react.
It was like Russian roulette. Aim, pull the trigger, and hope for the best.

Cost me my girlfriend and credit rating and place to live but I eventually put it behind me.
It's a game for rich guys with clean hands or poor guys with dirty hands.

sammyg2 · 07-26-2010, 07:22 PM

My boat was faster than most of these, but it gives you a feel of the power.

ODDJOB UNO · ODDJOB UNO's Garage

i have seen more ENGINE CARNAGE with boats than any other motosports. just go to a winternational boat race and it doesnt matter what class. river class all the way to blown hydros and capsule boats. none of them want to stay together long.

me? a pair of merc 525EFI's will be just fine for reliable fun.

Joeaksa · 07-27-2010, 07:06 AM

Cannot wait to see Vinny chime in here!

ODDJOB UNO · ODDJOB UNO's Garage

yeah the vinman has seen some ser-i-ass off shore boofoonary fer sure!

slakjaw · 07-27-2010, 07:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim Richards

big "motors"

Nice!

pwd72s · 07-27-2010, 11:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Jim Richards

big "motors"

And the fuel used is free...

Aurel · Aurel's Garage

Those got lucky this time...

But not that time:

Aurel · Aurel's Garage

Good sounds there:

Aurel · Aurel's Garage

I see some want to go green...So here is a very big green motor:

slow&rusty · 07-27-2010, 08:45 PM

Those jet boat owners rival crotch rocket owners for steel nerves...

88cs · 07-27-2010, 08:57 PM

One of my friends was at Lake San Antonio in Mid Cal three or four weeks ago. He's been going there for 35 years or so, the lake is fairly heavily used and has no speed limit. He said that he saw the fastest boat he'd ever seen on that lake, guessing 120 or so.

The guy was running it back and forth and another guy took off after him, so he opened it up. My friend said that right around the time he was thinking it was a little choppier than earlier the boat came out of the water and went back in nose first. He said that he was the third boat there, the first two were trying to pull an obviously dead guy off the steering wheel. So much for a fun weekend.

Of course my friend being the way he is marked the location with his GPS and is going to try to get the back half out of the water, he says it’s in 30 feet not that far from shore. I think I’d leave it.

Jim Bremner · 07-27-2010, 10:43 PM

a Friend just got a 426 hemi that was in a HOT boat tunnel ram dual 1050 holleys dry sumped plus a spare block & more....I think that it will be for sale!

ODDJOB UNO · ODDJOB UNO's Garage

my boat wierdo amigo has got the shakes to ditch his vintage muscle cars and :

1) buy a 1970 camaro or mustang in trans-am dress, and road race it.

and.............

2) buy another(he had a screamer before) 18ft flat bottom and stuff (my suggestion) a simple efficient 502 injected chebbie crate mtr. in it.

reliable,cheap,fast,FUN!

these gawd damn mega ponies just dont last and ya get to always feek with them day and night. giant PITA and when they do usually lunch themselves is always away from shore or any damn help.

signed, tired of going to lake and wrenching or rowing.

525EFI MERCS FOR ME!

sammyg2 · 09:50 AM

Just remember, there ain't nothing like positive intake manifold pressure.

A big powerful engine is nice, but as soon as the manifold pressure goes positive it turns into a wild, scary beast.
I was darned near scared to death the first time I hit the throttle on the hemi after I put on the supercharger.
The boat jumped completely out of the water and the prop went dry, the engine over-revved, and when it came back down and hooked up it violently tried to flip. That was at around 3/4 throttle from a rolling start, prolly 20 mph.
Prior to that I considered the down pedal on the cavitation plate just fluff.

After that I became intimately involved with the up and down pedals because they were the only things that kept the top of the boat from being the bottom of the boat.
I had been driving boats since I was 12 but with that one everything was like the first time.

Oh, another thing that is totally cool: blower surge.
The idle fluctuated from around 500 rpm to about 1500 rpm about every second.
That sounds wild but make it kind of a beotch to take off. On a flat deal you start the engine in gear so as soon as it catches it jumps forward and then backs down. Do that too hard and you have a wave of water that will spill over the back of the boat into the engine area. Not gud.

I had to set the idle kind of high to compensate for the surge so even at idle I was kicking along pretty fast. No such thing as a 5 mph no wake zone for that boat.

sammyg2 · 07-28-2010, 09:55 AM

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Originally Posted by ODDJOB UNO

these gawd damn mega ponies just dont last and ya get to always feek with them day and night. giant PITA and when they do usually lunch themselves is always away from shore or any damn help.

signed, tired of going to lake and wrenching or rowing.

!

LOL you can always tell the guys with really fast boats. Their backs are tan and their bellies are white because they spend the entire weekend bent over an engine.

My friend at the time called my boat "the quiet boat".
Now it had faily large diameter zoomies and you could hear it from a mile or two away so I didn't get it.
I asked him what the heck he was talknig about.
He said that whenever my engine was running, everyone got quiet because they were watching to see if I crashed and besides, they wouldn't be able to hear themselves if they did try to talk.

BTW the older I get, the faster that boat was