Ben was going to turn them up to 5600 for the weekend & we were going to run 110 or 116 octane & bump the timing, but we decided to just leave it alone & run it as it has been.
The only thing I took out of the boat was the anchor. I even had 3/4 tank of fuel.

Nice lookin run Jason Great job

No, midday on Saturday.

Saturday was not a good day. Sorry. I'm not remembering.

I was standing there with Jason Billmeyer when you were talking to him. I introduced myself quickly but I dont think you realized who I was. You were a little preoccupied, heading somewhere.

Yea, broken boat. Shocker.
Next time.

i watched it on the vid stream, great job jason. felt bad for u at first on sat, but when 10 other people didnt make it thru the correct bouys, i figured it must have been hard to see.

wish i didnt miss your after run interview on sun.

I really want to see that Sunday interview...........before it goes to court.

No bad for a youngster! Congrats
Jay

I had a head gasket start to go bad last fall,
the original intent was to just fix that, since
they ran soo good before, but I had the heads
crack checked, and they were, so plan b happened.

Dean Gellner has built up a few 575's, so I got
in contact with him.

He did up a couple of sets of dart iron eagle heads,
got a couple of his custom ground h/r cams he does for
that recipe, morrel lifters, reflashed ecm's

Decked the block, honed, ringed and bearing'd it,
I threw them back together.

It runs now what it would run on it's absolute best
day ( ideal conditions) regularly.

They had a new starting procedure which allowed
us to roll past the start boat at 30 mph.

The first run, I was screwing around trying to
make it go 30, rolled past the start boat, set the
trim and then hammered it..it ran 89

Went back up, when it was time to run,
I got back a little further in the start box, got
it going 30, partially set the drives, hammered
it right at the start boat trimmed it.....ran 92 ( 92.5 on the hand held)

I then installed the 90 MPH club sticker Jason gave me

Sunday, conditions ( air temp, quality was better,
had a nice breeze at the rear, tried the same
start proceedure as I did on the second run,
but added more trim to see if the would spool up
quicker, hammered it at the start boat, it porposed
a bit, then it started to lay down and go, then, at about
1/4 track, the right tach headed to the moon

I pulled off the track, r/h drive wouldn't go forward or reverse, so I'm thinking a shaft broke.....I'll tear it
apart tonight and see what the damages are.

I took the boat back to the dock, jumped in thunderflash,
headed back to the corse and starteding

I'm thinking it could have hit 94 fairly easy,
but the 3rd time of hammering at 30 mph
took it's toll.

So, for the most part, it was a pretty good weekend.