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Old 08-30-2009 | 10:43 AM
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Originally Posted by animalhouse
We built the 51 with tripple 1200's and that boat went an honest 138. I think your friends boat is fast, but not quite as fast as he is claiming.
I just read in the power boats mag about the OL 48' Cat with 1300 Teague EFI's running 161mph then turn a few pages and read the Nor-tech 50' with 4-1100's running 166mph

5mph with two more engines... That sounded cost effective.

3 engines is not the best set up and I wonder why they do that???
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Old 08-30-2009 | 11:41 AM
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Originally Posted by mmareno
3 engines is not the best set up and I wonder why they do that???
simple... say 3 700's are 2100 hp... 2-1075s are 2150hp.. the 700's will live a lot longer between rebuilds and hopefully be less troublesome. But when something does break, you running a 1400 twin as opposed to idling forever to get back.
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Old 08-30-2009 | 01:25 PM
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He lives right down the lake from me...told me yesterday, it had a burnt piston in one of the engines...
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Old 08-30-2009 | 02:18 PM
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Originally Posted by phragle
simple... say 3 700's are 2100 hp... 2-1075s are 2150hp.. the 700's will live a lot longer between rebuilds and hopefully be less troublesome. But when something does break, you running a 1400 twin as opposed to idling forever to get back.

ahhhh grasshopper... I see the theory..... I understand 6mph is not good!!

Thanks for the tech. it makes good sense
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Old 08-30-2009 | 11:15 PM
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Originally Posted by possum
He lives right down the lake from me...told me yesterday, it had a burnt piston in one of the engines...
nice boat to bad about about the motor
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Old 08-31-2009 | 08:39 AM
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Seth,

Did any of you guys go out and run with him? He told one of the sales guys at Island Cove that it ran 150+. That's a big a$$ boat for our lake. Who owns it?
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Old 08-31-2009 | 09:02 AM
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That boat might be able to do 125 if you take everything out of it and put a pro at the sticks. 115 is more like it with average load. My buddy went out on that boat after he redid it I wont say restored because it wasn't. They had 2 guys and 3 skinny stripers 1/2 gas and a cooler,My buddy said at 5600 rpm the speedo said 108.
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Old 08-31-2009 | 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by TCBoss302
Seth,

Did any of you guys go out and run with him? He told one of the sales guys at Island Cove that it ran 150+. That's a big a$$ boat for our lake. Who owns it?
LOL... everyone likes to exaggerate.. From his own mouth the boat gets really squirrely and hard to handle over 100mph so I'd say it needs to go back to outerlimits to get that worked out.
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Old 08-31-2009 | 02:30 PM
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Originally Posted by m3seth
LOL... everyone likes to exaggerate.. From his own mouth the boat gets really squirrely and hard to handle over 100mph so I'd say it needs to go back to outerlimits to get that worked out.
How funny is that ?! The guys says that it runs 148 mph but that it gets squirrely at anything over 100 doh
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Old 08-31-2009 | 03:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Jamie B.
How funny is that ?! The guys says that it runs 148 mph but that it gets squirrely at anything over 100 doh
Maybe he hides below the wheel over the hundred mark and looks up at the angle and thinks it says 148

We have a 37 OL on the chesapeake with big power. Never been on it but word around the block says 118mph and HOLD ON for dear life
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