Max Speed

[squirt]

Well as long as were bench racing, whats your top speed and can you prove it! Here is a shot from my last run at Folsom with 4 witnesses
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/14speed2.JPG
read em and weep cry
[ April 29, 2003, 07:38 PM: Message edited by: squirt ]

[Kindsvater Flat]

This is all I could do...
http://www.saber.net/~atthefarm/folder/pics/topspeed.jpg

[waterloged]

wow, now that's fast eek!

[LVjetboy]

Wait...tracking satellites...what does that mean?
Consider,
http://users.lvcm.com/lvjetboy/TopSpeed.gif
Matching GPS with speedo and tach...and the reflection. Lake trim. Of course, may all be compliments of Photoshop. Can I prove it? What do you think?
jer

[Kindsvater Flat]

Wait...tracking satellites...what does that mean? Quite simple. I turned it back on to take the pic after going through a security check point at the airport.

[LVjetboy]

So maybe Squirt took his for a ride in the SR-71? :) Another tip-off is "max speed" vs. "speed"
jer

[Blown 472]

LVjetboy:
Wait...tracking satellites...what does that mean?
Consider,
http://users.lvcm.com/lvjetboy/TopSpeed.gif
Matching GPS with speedo and tach...and the reflection. Lake trim. Of course, may all be compliments of Photoshop. Can I prove it? What do you think?
jer Water looks pretty still, and the cord for the camera is hanging straight down.

[squirt]

Yeah but look at LV's tach and note his reflection. He's got some cheek flapping going on Eek! I wonder what that pump calculator says if you put in 2247 mph at 5,100 rpm
[ April 30, 2003, 07:09 PM: Message edited by: squirt ]

[Unchained]

Here's my speed in 1000'
http://www.michigan***boats.com/images/unchdash.JPG

[058]

How is it when the engines is at 1200 rpms and you have no oil pressure? eek!

[Sangster]

Sounds like more jetboat....
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/118cf8-med.jpg
[ May 01, 2003, 08:55 AM: Message edited by: Sangster ]

[Unchained]

058:
How is it when the engines is at 1200 rpms and you have no oil pressure? eek! Could be I disconnected the oil pump because I didn't want any parasitic losses on the engine while racing,
Or,
Because I was in the pits at the time.
See the tire in the picture of the rig parked next to me. :rolleyes:
Snagster, I can tell you're a smart ass so we would get along good. How can I find you at Red Bluff?

[Sangster]

We got reservations at a local lake memorial weekend, But may drive up for a day..I'll be the guy roamin' around Drinkin' Beer.....Are you runnin' your boat...

[Her454]

Unchained:
Snagster, I can tell you're a smart ass so we would get along good. How can I find you at Red Bluff? Just look for the drunk guy wandering around looking lost...........
wink

[Sangster]

Her454:
Unchained:
Snagster, I can tell you're a smart ass so we would get along good. How can I find you at Red Bluff? Just look for the drunk guy wandering around looking lost...........
wink Yup..Wearing an IHBA t-shirt....with sunglasses too...... :D :D

[Sangster]

idea idea And a Hat...

[Unchained]

Sangster:
We got reservations at a local lake memorial weekend, But may drive up for a day..I'll be the guy roamin' around Drinkin' Beer.....Are you runnin' your boat... Running the boat!! I would have to start driving there tomorrow. I'm in Michigan.
Well if you see someone who looks like this,
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/104ostrich.jpg
Stop and say hi,
Ok, Here's a better picture from Christmas,
I'm the guy who looks closer to 47 yrs. old
than 18 or 25 http://www.childsdale-ind-prop.com/Familychristmas2002.jpg

[Sangster]

Here's a pic from CFW....I'm the Young Handsome Dude in the Green Hat....
http://www.***boat.com/photoreport/43/97.jpg

[058]

Unchained:
058:
How is it when the engines is at 1200 rpms and you have no oil pressure? eek! Could be I disconnected the oil pump because I didn't want any parasitic losses on the engine while racing,
Or,
Because I was in the pits at the time.
See the tire in the picture of the rig parked next to me. :rolleyes:
Snagster, I can tell you're a smart ass so we would get along good. How can I find you at Red Bluff? A tire, is that what that is? Could hardly see it. I guess ya had to be there. :rolleyes:

[Unchained]

Sangster
[QB] Sounds like more jetboat....
That picture of the GPS recall is no BS. That's the speed from the 1000' drags in Ottawa Ill. last August. The time slip said 103 mph / 7.95 ET but the GPS said 101mph. So which is more accurate? The Nordskog GPS updates the speed 10 times a second. I don't think handheld units don't update speed that fast.
058, I hope I didn't give you a smart ass answer to a ligit question. Hard to read throught the lines here sometimes.
Mark

[058]

Unchained:
Sangster
[QB] Sounds like more jetboat....
That picture of the GPS recall is no BS. That's the speed from the 1000' drags in Ottawa Ill. last August. The time slip said 103 mph / 7.95 ET but the GPS said 101mph. So which is more accurate? The Nordskog GPS updates the speed 10 times a second. I don't think handheld units don't update speed that fast.
058, I hope I didn't give you a smart ass answer to a ligit question. Hard to read throught the lines here sometimes.
Mark No problem, Mark. Its all good. :D

[MAXIMUS]

121 MPH eek!

[Sangster]

Unchained...We'll be lookin for you at Red Bluff..We'll probally be Hangin' out in the "Shattered Image" & "Anger Managment" Pits...I got a cold cold Beer with your name all over it..Look forward to meeting you..... :cool: :cool: :cool:

[waterloged]

Hay Sangster you will have to come check out nstigator too. I think he wants to do the steets of fire. See you there.....

[Sangster]

Waterloged...Tell Todd we will difinetly look you guys up....How's your boat search doing.... :cool: :cool:

[waterloged]

O It's going. I am just being a little picky I guess. Todds computer has been down, so that's why he hasn't been on much. I guess that's good because he has been working on the boat more, getting it ready for Red bluff. Yes we will see you there.

[Max_182]

I made it to 109 last year, and it's still on my GPS! Shooting for 130 this year. Different hull though. See www.dragboatrace.com (http://www.dragboatrace.com) for circumstantial evidence; the 109 mpg under Rick's Videos. I still have the burned piston too! Maybe a pic of that will suffice . . .
Rk

[Hud]

Max-182, did you get my pm?

[LVjetboy]

By Blown472...
Water looks pretty still, and the cord for the camera is hanging straight down.
Just because you're slower with a Blown "oh my" 472 Ford (compared to my n/a mild 454 Chevy) and only your "fat ass" (compared to my lake trim fat ass with passenger)...
No need to be jealous.
Why should I waste time photoshoping? When a PlaceCraft jet with a mild engine can wax your ass?
jer

[058]

LVjetboy:
By Blown472...
Water looks pretty still, and the cord for the camera is hanging straight down.
Just because you're slower with a Blown "oh my" 472 Ford (compared to my n/a mild 454 Chevy) and only your "fat ass" (compared to my lake trim fat ass with passenger)...
No need to be jealous.
Why should I waste time photoshoping? When a PlaceCraft jet with a mild engine can wax your ass?
jer Did it take you all this time to think that response up? :D Damn, and I thought this thread was dead.

[Blown 472]

LVjetboy:
By Blown472...
Water looks pretty still, and the cord for the camera is hanging straight down.
Just because you're slower with a Blown "oh my" 472 Ford (compared to my n/a mild 454 Chevy) and only your "fat ass" (compared to my lake trim fat ass with passenger)...
No need to be jealous.
Why should I waste time photoshoping? When a PlaceCraft jet with a mild engine can wax your ass?
jer Now that is rich, and how much money are we spending?? hummm I have probably an 1/8th of what you are spending in my motor, and to get an million pound hull with an e pump to run almost 80 mph I would say is pretty good, considering the motor is nothing more than a 60 over, cast crank, stock rods, heavy then hell trw's d3ve's with oversized valves, home ported, and a flat tappet cam, stock ford dura spark ignition, built in my garage. Oh yeah I am only at 6 psi too.

[Her454]

058:
Did it take you all this time to think that response up? :D Damn, and I thought this thread was dead. :D LOL eek!

[LVjetboy]

Just figured time to wake the thread back up.
1/8 the money in your engine? Remember, I'm not talking about the new engine above. Those numbers with my 10 year old engine costing about $5000 new. So 1/8 of that is $625. I'd say you got yourself a really good deal on that blower 472.
:)
jer

[Blown 472]

Well that could be, since I did buy the blower for 600. The intake was a little more, the rest of the stuff was already in the boat or on the shelf.

[Sangster]

NOW were BENCH RACING.... argue argue smile_sp argue argue

[Blown 472]

Well since we are on the subject of building motors, Mr. big chev what ever my little stock bore, 3.75 inch stroke, iron headed, stock valve, stock rod, flat tappet, ductile iron rocker 440 makes 615 hp at the flywheel, 3% under driven at 6 psi.

[LVjetboy]

Is that the new engine for your jet?

[Blown 472]

LVjetboy:
Is that the new engine for your jet? That engine has been in my street/strip car for the last two years, shifting at 6500 and no problems.

[LVjetboy]

Pretty impressive. Now stick that in your jet hooked to a "B" and maybe see high eighties?
jer

[Blown 472]

LVjetboy:
Pretty impressive. Now stick that in your jet hooked to a "B" and maybe see high eighties?
jer or, fingers crossed, it runs all season :rolleyes: