92.4 mph.
 

Not all that happy with my performance at the LOTO Shootout this year, but 92 was good enough to win my class.
I had Bblades work the propellers no too long ago & was against the limiters at 3/4 track.

Nice Job!

JT ran several times in his 33 Outlaw & saw a best of 93 mph, I think before a drive let go.

I saw your run on tv. The guy did some good commentating. I remember him saying there were alot of clean boats at the shootout this year, and yours was no exception.

Nice meeting you for like 10 seconds! :drink:

Both you guys looked good out there. I was thinking that was JTs 33.
Who and what was in the other 29? Didnt he run mid 80s or so?

Great show guys.

Congrats to all the baja folks.
Any you utube vids ??

Teambaja, ummm that must have been late Sunday.

Quinlan, the other 29 belongs to Mike Bandy out of Indy. He ran 87 I think.

Nice job Jason it looked good going down the track.

Good to hear the limiters were working. Otherwise you might have been fixing motors too.


But seriously--92.4 is fast !!! I'm sure the cooler , dryer air helped a little bit.

JT's boat is really moving too. What does he have for motors now??

Great job guys !!!!

Smitty

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. :drink:

Yea, broken boat. Shocker.
Next time.:kiss:

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:eek:..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:drink:

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:eek:

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 started:drink:ing

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.

Congrats to you also JT. AWESOME RUN

When that happens to me I find my upper gears have shed their teeth.

Good luck

P.S. What speeds did the Baja by Fountain run out there?

I think there was one there, but it had a super secret stealth paint job, and it continiously ran outside the radar bouys:D

As I recall, the Baja's that ran were a yellow 226,
a 24 o/l, a 25o/l, Jason and the other 29, Roger ( 33 O/L
w/Jasons colors and graphics) and myself.

Fountain was probably the only other
V hull that had a better presence there.

congrats jay to you and jason for your 90mph runs, any way to find out how the others did? I hope to be there next year with two boats mine and a skater 46 turbine. do you know if the others were stock or built up boats thanks.

Outlawcowgirl was the 24 Outlaw. She was in the magazine too!

how did she do, I think she added power this year, man I just want to run again another year gone for me. :evilb: if you talk to her have her post her speeds love it when chicks race, my wife use to race my 4x4 on the ice on LAKE GEORGE NY during winter carnival . boy I missed that 4,000 spikes on 4 32x11.50x15 true trac tires:evilb::evilb::evilb:they were like being on the 1/4 mile drag strip with slicks.

Jason Congrats on your run!! Rumor has it you ended up trading your boat for a pontoon?? After seeing you pulling a pontoon trailer late Sunday, we figured it had to be true.

JT sorry to hear about your drive, that sucks!! Let us know what you fingure out. At least you hit your best "to date" run before blowing your drive. Are you running 4 or 5 blades now?? With out rubbing it in, let me tell you, our boat ran much faster on Sunday than it ever had before. If radar guns don't lie, then they must have given me bonus MPH's for looking so good.

Greg how is it others can forget you so easiy, but I can't seem to get your actions out of my head. Why can't you just go out like normal people do, have a couple, and then home to bed early? When I say to bed, I don't mean that blanket in a closet, that you called bed.

Well, sorta. I was actually taking Lakerat's toon out of the water for him.
He made me leave my helmet on Bad Idea. Something about an embarrassing tv interview???

I arrive with a special gift, even wrapped and this is how I get treated? I got there Thursday evening, had a couple like you said, then went to bed at a decent hour. What did you do Thursday?:eek:

9.7% slip for my setup!:drink:

Same props as before.

Propshaft broke, I've got it pretty much glued back together now......cant miss the weekend:drink:

I was expecting mid teens on Sunday too:lolhit:

Bill Johnson told me some stories about you guys
and that poor house you rented:eek:.....is there
anything left ?

Sunday I was about 75%:eek:

No sh!t. One motor will do that.:lolhit:

You get them 90+ stickers installed yet?

Any insurance issues entering an event like this?

What class would I be in if I ran the 36?

Insurance??? Who can afford that?
You would be in the non-professional v bottom class 32' to ?? with power added features. That would put you in with all the Cigs & Fountains with 700's unless they change the rules for 2010.

So did he make an offer on the condo because it sure is a nice place

I'LL SEE YOU TUESDAY KNUCKLE HEAD!:evilb:

So I would be in the same class as JayTee.

I think so.

No, you would be in NV4P2
( 36-42 v hull, power adder, 2 engines)

Thats the class where the 700 boats that have
adult sized propellers run.

What's insurance ?:drink:

In other words you'd get your ass handed to you.:angry-smiley-038: