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Off the wall question... Miami to Bimini....
I was showing/telling a buddy of mine about the Gino challenge and showed him the youtube video of the mercedes boat...
I was telling him about the run to Bimini and back of 106 miles... Times of 43 minutes I believe I read?!?!?!? Anyways, he asked approx. how much fuel is burned in the run to Bimini and Back to Miami?? And I didnt really have an answer as I do not have the slightest clue as to what kinda of MPG these motors see at near WOT. I Guesstimated somewhere in the 150-200 gallon range for the run... Am I anywhere near close??? Like I said, kind of an off the wall topic, kinda would like to know... Thanks for any replys. PS. Sorry to hear about the bad luck Gino, that was still one hell of a run... :evilb: |
Gonna go out on a limb an say prolly double that amount, my twin 502 efi's burn 50-55 gallons n hour I believe @ WOT, cruising speeds I'd prolly burn a whole tank in a 100+ mile run holds 120 gallons
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Full tilt we burn 180 an hour.... A gallon every 20 second essentially...
Hope this help... Sure doesn't help us! |
But we did not run this race...
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The boat that won this year had twin turbines. The name of the boat was Aqua Mania. Not sure how much fuel turbines burn. I'm sure someone on here does.:coolcowboy:
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Originally Posted by GLH
(Post 2892729)
Full tilt we burn 180 an hour.... A gallon every 20 second essentially...
Hope this help... Sure doesn't help us! |
Originally Posted by thumper038
(Post 2892858)
Yep when asked how much we burn I say all of it every time:eek::evilb:
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We ran the race with 4 Mercury 350 Verado engines on the 36 Deep Impact. 53 miles each way, average of 74.999 miles per hour and used 46 gallons on each motor.
Thats outboards though Carl |
The BIMINI OCEAN race had new records set in the 1st ever TURBINE Class ,Aqua-Mania G-3 ;43minutes 43 secon! The Cat Open Class {Piston Class } had a new record set by Cat agious,George Kovacs & Johnny Tomlinson @ 53 minutes 07 seconds !
The Cat Light class was set another new record by AMSOIL ,Bob teaque & Paul Whitier. The Piston motors burn approx; 1- 1.5 gallons per mile ! Remeber that records are always meant to be broken ....:eek: |
if I remember right, caveman with 2x 1450 turbines burs 2 gallons a min per motor, aquamania's are 1850's so will burn a little more..so you are probably taking 5~6 gpm.. figuring 5.5 gpm x44 min = 242 gallons/ 103 miles = 0.43 mpg though I prolly f'd up the math somewhere...all figures are assumptions...
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Big blower motors burn roughly 80 gals/hr @ WOT each so double it for a twin triple it for a Triple and so forth!!!!!
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Originally Posted by thumper038
(Post 2892858)
"all of it every time"
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Fuel burn
Originally Posted by SmurfOnAGixxer
(Post 2892693)
I was showing/telling a buddy of mine about the Gino challenge and showed him the youtube video of the mercedes boat...
I was telling him about the run to Bimini and back of 106 miles... Times of 43 minutes I believe I read?!?!?!? Anyways, he asked approx. how much fuel is burned in the run to Bimini and Back to Miami?? And I didnt really have an answer as I do not have the slightest clue as to what kinda of MPG these motors see at near WOT. I Guesstimated somewhere in the 150-200 gallon range for the run... Am I anywhere near close??? Like I said, kind of an off the wall topic, kinda would like to know... Thanks for any replys. PS. Sorry to hear about the bad luck Gino, that was still one hell of a run... :evilb: You are correct. The 50' Mystic with Turbine Marine Inc Power burned 185 gal of Jet A. The boat was not working hard at it cruise speeds 150-180 Mph. Hope this is what you where looking for. John Arruda Turbine Marine Inc www. turbinemarine.com |
The Freeze Frame boat Used 90 Gal We Went 113 miles
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