Have you ever seen anything like it ?

[Hustler]

i was just playing and found this. has anyone seen somthing like this? how fast do you think it is? i think i might just by an egg beater first.http://www.boattraderonline.com/addetail.html?3378556

[spectras only]

Hustler ,Eliminator had an oldsmobile diesel back in the late seventies,it only did 45MPH max!Maybe this new one with turbocharge would do 47 http://free.***boat.net/ubb/biggrin.gif http://free.***boat.net/ubb/biggrin.gif http://free.***boat.net/ubb/biggrin.gif

[Hustler]

I realy dont like the smell of 2-strock oil out on the lake let alone deisel. god this thing must sound like it just droped all four rods.

[regattaJim]

hey!!!! i got a olds 5.7 diesel in mine.... a 73 regatta.....17'.... berkely..... no tricks at all.... and it ran 66 on gps.....boat only weighs about 800lbs.... 1100 with me and fuel....

[Hustler]

RJ, I have never a diesel jet hot boat, I think it is amazing that they would put a diesel in that type of boat at this day and age, in 73 they were just getting into putting that kind combo in anything.

[old rigger]

Back around 1980 or so, at the Parker 9 hour enduro, Bob Nordskog (powerboat mag) showed up with this big tunnel running some kind of diesel hooked up to an outdrive. It was really funny to watch. The thing was such a dog out of the hole that after the start of the race, which was a Le Mans start, he would have to hang back behind the rest of the pack and make huge circles in the middle of the river trying to get this thing to build up enough of a head of steam to get on plane, all the while this diesel is belching out huge , black smoke rings. It ran ok once he got this thing moving, I don't remember how he placed with it, but he would have to repeat this circle thing every time he came into the pits or lost his hook up in a turn or something.
Man, that 9 hour was a fun race to go to!