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999JAY 10-23-2017 12:57 PM

Looking good, get some video of it in action ASAP curious to see how it performs, did you add steering and fuel coolers at this point?

pstorti 10-23-2017 01:44 PM

Where has Chris been for all this work? Seems like your partner should be doing his part! :)

ApachePete 10-23-2017 02:09 PM

Doesn’t look like good boating weather today.

Michigan Or Mackatawa?

skate 10-23-2017 03:07 PM

Tyson good luck on your run and thanks again for doing your build thread.

BigSilverCat 10-25-2017 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by ApachePete (Post 4589586)
Doesn’t look like good boating weather today.

Michigan Or Mackatawa?

I finally had it ready to run Monday morning at around 8 am so we headed to the water and no the weather was not good. It was 40 degrees and raining, but I had to be back home in Joplin that night so I could not wait till the next day. I will post more later tonight but we ran it a couple passes and had something happen to one of the engines. Not sure what happened yet. We had the low tune in the engine and it ran 103 MPH, was still gaining but we were in the little lake so did not have a lot of room.

On a good note, the Ceramic pro coating is still working good. The water definitely beads up.

SKammeraad 10-25-2017 11:29 AM


Originally Posted by BigSilverCat (Post 4590005)
I finally had it ready to run Monday morning at around 8 am so we headed to the water and no the weather was not good. It was 40 degrees and raining, but I had to be back home in Joplin that night so I could not wait till the next day. I will post more later tonight but we ran it a couple passes and had something happen to one of the engines. Not sure what happened yet. We had the low tune in the engine and it ran 103 MPH, was still gaining but we were in the little lake so did not have a lot of room.

On a good note, the Ceramic pro coating is still working good. The water definitely beads up good.

damn that sucks to hear, hopefully its just something simple and nothing major

999JAY 10-25-2017 12:33 PM

Good numbers for first time out, it seems to have the usual hop at mid 70s did you push through it OK?

What rpms were you pulling at 103?

akaboatman 10-25-2017 06:39 PM

Did I miss a video? ^^^

AZMIDLYF 10-25-2017 07:34 PM

Wondering the same...first pic has the Tabs indicator to the moon. :cartman:

akaboatman 10-25-2017 08:56 PM

Ok! He's planning a large cat in the cold rain? I know waiting for His response will be worth it. Thanks for sharing.


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