Wow, A lot of Bananna info here.
Chatim Racing, Do you remember building a yellow 24' with a cross ram 426 Hemi? My brothers next door neighbor still owns it, but the Hemi was removed and installed into a 1966 Satelite and a 440 was put back into the boat.

Anybody here racing a 24' single outboard Bananna in 92/93 in Lake St.Clair MI remember getting towed in by a black 24 Sunsation?

heatbuzz,That is an original 24' Cigarette Firefox, It was owned by a good friend of mine named Jim Dydra for many years, does it still have the left hand TRS and the Baker Engineering 462ci in it?

LEE the boat was red ,right. it was the day before the race.that was "gone banana's" . i was there in my green one. that was the race "dirty laundry" flipped.

Hey Jeb,

When I bought my boat it said "Gone Banana's" on the side.

Mine was definately not a race boat so I can't imagine it was the same boat.

mrv8ob, I plan on upgrading to a 300 v8 in the future. I have a pretty bare bones boat right now so I need most everything for the performance upgrade. What equipment should I pick up in order to get the most out of the v8 setup?

Thanks Adam

I asked him the same question before I decided to go with twinns.

He said to get a porta jack (which I think are very cool) and get the long k-planes (380's) and mount them flat, instead of flush with the V bottom.

That should give you more speed since less tab is in the water...

Are you gonna get a Merc or a BIG JOHNSON...

Hey Chris, Whats the deal with a porta-jack? I was going to use a stainless marine bracket probably the longest one I could which is 30" setback and a hydraulic jackplate. Figuring the further back the better? But if this porta-jack will do the job better I'll look for one of them. Looking to cheap out a little on the planes by getting a used set of bennett's or a set of lenco's, (dual ram of course), and use the Martini/Victory tab upgrades. You can do this for about 1/3 to 1/2 of the cost of k-planes depending on how cheap you can find the bennett or lenco setup. And since I'm already setup for the OMC I'll go with the BIG JOHNSON or evinrude.

Look what I found. Can we race this?

thats cool! I was wondering what they looked like and when we'd see a pic of one on here. Nice job Rick

I am trying to transition from one blender to two. With 2 egg beaters I estimate the max set back should 18" in order to keep the center of gravity at it's optimum.

Porta Jack offers a 17" twin bracket with a swim platform that I hope to afford someday.

As for the single set up, 30" should work, but I think that is a max.

MrV8ob is the king for that question.

Charlie, Jr. should be able to give you some guidance since he has that set-up, but he has a 200 which I assume is lighter than a 300 OMC.

When my brother gets his Banana Boat I think the name on that center console would be good for him since he is "Koo Koo" for a banana...

Let me jump in here on this....

I have a 225 Yamaha on a 30" Armstrong bracket and 24" Keikhaefer 380s tabs. My tabs are mounted in the normal position - not parallel. I would think that parallel might be good for racing application (?) but not for pleasure; I like to put the tabs even with the running surface in rough water - makes the boat behave as if it's a 26' rather than a 24'...just my $.02.

Here's a couple of pics of my boat. I mentioned this in an earlier post but let me say again, I moved my back seat back 1 foot (see floor picture) - it gives a lot more room in the cockpit area...