Dash

Cool

Lip Ship Facebook page. click on the video near the top. shows the V10 firing up. Sounds Nasty!

http://www.facebook.com/lipshipV8#!/...closeTheater=1

Great click on facebook & the new lipship website. Any estimated speeds with that massive Viper Power?

The motor is a Gen III Ilmor 625 hp and similarly powered Big Block Cig 20's have ran in the low to mid 90's with the BH drive setup. The Ilmor V10 is an aluminum block which sheds approx 300 pounds. It also revs a bit more (up to 6000 rpm) depending on props. So, if we are in the low 90's, I will be happy but hoping for upper 90's.

VERY COOL, great job and a Awsome boat!!!

Awesome job!

Man that's flying for a little boat. That's an awesome boat/package

Thanks for all the nice comments. more pics to come.

sounds great! Keep us posted!!!

Engine Hatch
 

Hatch pics! I glassed drop vents and made stainless grilles for the smaller drop vents and a larger front oval grille. First pic is the top side, second is the underside.

Vent detail, I engraved the Cig script logo onto the small backing plate for the stainless vents in the drop vent. Phil's crew did a great jog cleaning up the hatch and the rough glassing I did.

20 completed!
 

http://www.lipship.com/posts

A cool little Blurb Philly put on it his new site. More pics to follow.

A huge "thank you" to Phil, Marissa and the crew at Lip-Ship. They totally out did themselves yet again. My 20 came out beautiful to say the least and has a bunch of cool little tricks to it.

DK

couple pics. Check out the full 12" set back. Philly hooked me up with a Zeiger 5" Box to go along with the ITS setup. I then machined the 5" box for an overall wight reduction of about 30%. It was Philly's idea and these smaller boats are so weight sensitive.

Dash pic and Ilmor V10 Engine

Wow it came out great!

Damn that came out really nice.. Sick looking cig.. Have you got it dialed in yet?? Curious as to what kinda mph your getting?? I need to find a blackhawk drive for my stinger... Again very nice :drink:

John jr

Thanks Guys! No numbers yet, we just took it for a shake down cruise to make sure everything was tight and clamped. we ran it up to 75 pretty effortlessly with a lot left. It should run in the low to mid 90's. once I get it back home and run it I will post what I get out of it.

looks awesome, i was looking at the Seiger box the other day, how much do they weigh? Mine has the cowl added so i have some weight up front too.

Daren boats gorgeous, saw it down at Phil's while he was doing mine...and just missed you Friday when you test drove it, I pulled in right after you and Phil couldn't stop talking about the boat :drink:
Amazing boat and as always, pictures don't do it justice...the attention to the details are incredible!

Good luck with it and enjoy tearing up lake wini :evilb:

Thanks Rob, the box weighs a little over 90lbs stock (before machining) very heavy.

Jason, thanks very much! Yea, Philly and his crew did an amazing job!! True professionals and fun to work with. Sorry I missed you, hopefully next time we will get a chance to meet. I have followed the work you have had done to your Top Gun and it looks incredible! I hope you enjoy every minute on that beauty!

Daren

woooooowwwwwww!! speechless. Congrats on an amazing project

WOW that sure came out nice. Well done.

How does the BH do getting on plane? What G/R and prop pitch are you running?

I notice you have a cav plate pick up for your drive shower. My BH drive never put enough water thru there to keep the drive from turning white. I found running a 6AN tap from the raw water cooling thru the transom to the shower cap made a huge difference in drive temps. It also kept cooling the drive when idling along after a hard run. Never turned a cap white after making that modification. Keep an eye on the drive, they tend to get pretty toasty because they're really isn't anything in the water to transfer heat away from.

Looks great Daren - love the windshield vs. windscreen look, and the paint is a nice balance of cool and classy.

Congrats on a long-time-coming -- one-of-a-kind project, Phil out did himself on this one, as did you!

Mark

Guys, thanks for all the very nice comments!

Mark, stop over some time and check the boat out.

Airpacker,

I am running a 1.5:1 Gear Ratio. We tried a set of 29's and it got on plane effortlessly. I was very surprised, but happy. The boat is set up with 380S K-planes which help out. I am going to try a set of 31's when I get it back home.

Philly runs the same type of drive shower setup on his 20 and I don't think he has had a problem. I will keep an eye on it and I appreciate the advice!

Daren

That looks incredible!!

This is probably a dumb question, but why still use the BH drive instead of something newer like the Indy, Imco, Konrad etc? I guess i dont know what benefits the BH provides over a single prop drive.

Thanks!

The dual prop works really well keeping the boat tracking nicely at high speed. The BH with it's surface piercing design runs really well on these smaller high HP boats that run over 80.

Way cool came out awesome!

What an awesome example of what can be done to a Cig 20!!

I would soooo like to be able to do that with mine someday....... just keep dreaming......

Thanks guys! Just got back from picking the boat up @ Lip-ship. 4 days in the truck! Ready for a cold beer.

More pics and video to come. Phil is the man!!

Are you going to run that in N.H. ? I heard they tough on their noise laws. What mufflers can you use?

We use HPI's. They work great. We have a set on our 39TG and we have no issues.

Just got back Saturday! Going up to Lake Winni Tuesday night.

A little vid of the V10 idling w/straight exhaust.

That sounds awesome Daren!!!

Where on Wini do you boat?

First class job !
I didnt know the Blackhawk drives could handle a motor with that much torque and horsepower.
Did you have any work done to the internals?

We stay in Moultonborough and boat all over Winnipesaukee.

Thanks, my BH has had upgrading to handle the HP and be reliable.