Did anyone else notice the lack of transom-mounted water pickups? They must be using some sort of through-hull pickup on the bottom of the boat. Interesting.

I'm sure with the huge weight-savings, there's going to be some re-balancing of the setup with these engines.

They are dialing her in...
 

Here's the latest water-trial information from Formula, as reported by Matt Trulio... :drink:

http://speedonthewater.com/new-boats...ialing-in.html

96 factory stock? wow.. thats alot of boat

I just want to be clear that that number was purely a guess, and that it's not outside the realm of possiblity, AND that it came from the mouth of a dumb old English Ed. major, not an engineer!

My 700NXT 382 ran 97 out of the box. I would think with the weight savings this ilmore would do better than that

That's impressive and stronger than what I've heard for any of the factory-installed 700NXT boats. Did you rig yours the same as the factory? No Whipple upgrade kits, right? ;)

By the way - How did you rig your water pickups? I don't see any transom pickups on MiR's boat...

water pick ups
 

Here is an example of water pickups on a 353 Fastech

With the move from Bravo XR`s to Imco SCX Drives (two inch shorter) there was not enough water pressure coming from the drives water pick up

These new water pick ups work perfect - as the SCX do

Hey, as long as they (Formula) doesn't fire the messenger, we'll all be ok with it! Good chat yesterday! Talk soon.

Dave

700 nxt
 

everything is the same as the factory except.....1.5" higher X and I removed the gen pickup and the holding tank macerator discharge from the bottom, The gen feeds from the sea strainer and I have no Y valve, I just pumpout at the fuel dock. I cant imagine the factory would leave anything on the bottom with the ilmor's I think I would break 100 with Herrings. But its fast enough

Formula is using a Teague water pick up mounted to bottom of transom, but I can't see them in the pictures.