ratman

thats what i was talking about, an offshore boat, not a ultra light layup jetboat or drag boat that have paper thin hulls. what brand of boat was el boss?

Unlimited jd

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Pantera?

Biggus

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Years ago I had a radical small block in a 16 Donzi. While running the snot outta it off of Gloucester, Ma, it blew up so hard there there individual cam lobes in the bilge. Snapped a rod and it was all over. Was with a non boating friend, we floated for quite some time. He does not go boating anymore.

ratman

now thats sum really funny chit right there lmao

phragle

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In my younger poorer days I bought and old hyunda from a chick for 150 bucks because she said it died and wouldn't start. Considered it a bic dispose-a-car. threw new battery in it and it started right up and I drove it out of her driveway. refused to put any money in it, never even changed the oil. drove it for 2 1/2 years until it locked up solid on a freeway onramp. Called on of those "we buy cars running or not places" they met me in an hour with a flatbed at the onramp where it died and they gave me 250 bucks for it. Made money on that deal

C_Spray

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The Miller American Unlimited hydro worked out of our shop for a few weeks in 1986. They had just experienced a failure of the hot end of their turbine, where turbine blades and chunks of the rotor had gone through a Kevlar blanket, hit the water, and bounced back up through the boat from underneath. There feeling was that the Kevlar blanket had actually made things worse. "Imagine pulling a mattress through a keyhole", one of them explained to me. In the end, they had a 1/4" thick titanium sleeve made to hold the parts in.

Things got much better when they sorted out the fuel controls and governors...

Crossett

lol

CDShack

Before mandatory scatter shields, I was standing, straddled a big block Chevy in a Howard flatbottom when the flywheel and back of the crank decided it didn't want to be part of the team anymore. Motor is in backwards, so it happened basically between my legs. Stuff blew everywhere. Looked like the scene from Pulp Fiction where Samuel L. Jackson has his epiphany after being shot at a dozen times and not getting hit! Not a scratch on me, but boat was too damaged to race. A fellow here in Texas had just being killed several months before doing the same thing. I learned new respect.

SVL-WARLOCK

I had a mid 90s formula 25 with a 454. The mechanic at a shop ass revving it on the garden hose. Boat was on the trailer in the parking lot. Harmonic balancer shattered and parts went through the bottom into the asphalt. I was mad as a mofo.

ratman

it would have been much worse, if it happened 30 miles offshore....i would have bought him a beer