Start to Finish: Building Our 50' Skater
01-26-2018, 08:29 AM
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Industrial Injection has ran the engine on the Dyno all day everyday for the last two weeks and they have tried 64 different combinations of turbos and they think they have what is going to be a better match for what we need in the boat. Industral has literally thousands of turbos in stock so they could fine tune the setup. In the end we are at 1160 hp at 3200 rpm, 1100 hp at 4000 rpm, and 1000 hp at 4700 rpm. Some of the main differences are the compound turbos which will give us a lot better spool up off the line and then still have the flow for the higher rpm. And the lower exhaust temperatures should make the engine live longer.
01-26-2018, 09:02 AM
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Did Industrial Injection give you any indication as to the Fuel consumption variance running the engines at 3200, 4K and 4700 rpm?
Just wondering if there was any major influence on how the given rpm/ required fuel consumption will effect the long distance capabilities you are after.
Just wondering if there was any major influence on how the given rpm/ required fuel consumption will effect the long distance capabilities you are after.
We are still trying to find "bigger" props to get the rpm down mainly from lower slip numbers since you cannot get any more pitch then we are running at 40's.
I have FLO-SCAN modules in the boat but did not have the nema2000 backbone all done so they were not showing up on the screen to see what we were burning, but I will hook them up before the next run so when were testing we can tune for the maximum fuel efficiency.
01-31-2018, 09:01 AM
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Please be very careful if you test at Havasu. All of the center pod guys cry about how "Hella rough" it gets out there........Sure hope these motors work out for you. Thanks again for sharing this build with us.
02-02-2018, 10:19 AM
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Industrial is building the new exhaust for the boat but were not sure if it will be done with enough time for me to go out there and install the engines and test before I have to leave for the Miami boat show. I will update once I head out there.
I have not been on here in a week because I was sick. Here is a video of what it was like when I ask Tristan for a bowl of chicken noodle soup.
I have not been on here in a week because I was sick. Here is a video of what it was like when I ask Tristan for a bowl of chicken noodle soup.
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02-02-2018, 10:48 AM
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Industrial is building the new exhaust for the boat but were not sure if it will be done with enough time for me to go out there and install the engines and test before I have to leave for the Miami boat show. I will update once I head out there.
I have not been on here in a week because I was sick. Here is a video of what it was like when I ask Tristan for a bowl of chicken noodle soup.
https://youtu.be/gLj7fj-3L78
I have not been on here in a week because I was sick. Here is a video of what it was like when I ask Tristan for a bowl of chicken noodle soup.
https://youtu.be/gLj7fj-3L78
Thats funny
02-07-2018, 11:51 AM
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Industrial Injection has ran the engine on the Dyno all day everyday for the last two weeks and they have tried 64 different combinations of turbos and they think they have what is going to be a better match for what we need in the boat. Industral has literally thousands of turbos in stock so they could fine tune the setup. In the end we are at 1160 hp at 3200 rpm, 1100 hp at 4000 rpm, and 1000 hp at 4700 rpm. Some of the main differences are the compound turbos which will give us a lot better spool up off the line and then still have the flow for the higher rpm. And the lower exhaust temperatures should make the engine live longer.
They have ordered stainless steel tubing to make new exhaust and intake pipes. I thought they were going to use the black pipes they made for the Dyno but they wanted it to look better and they can keep the setup they are using on the Dyno to keep checking different setups. I'm flying back out there in a couple days to start putting the engine back in and get the boat ready to test once they get all the plumbing done. This time we will probably haul it all the way to Lake Havasu to test. The last time we tested it was not very realistic to what the conditions will be that we are normally running in. The altitude being 6,500 feet changes a lot including lift from the tunnel.
They have ordered stainless steel tubing to make new exhaust and intake pipes. I thought they were going to use the black pipes they made for the Dyno but they wanted it to look better and they can keep the setup they are using on the Dyno to keep checking different setups. I'm flying back out there in a couple days to start putting the engine back in and get the boat ready to test once they get all the plumbing done. This time we will probably haul it all the way to Lake Havasu to test. The last time we tested it was not very realistic to what the conditions will be that we are normally running in. The altitude being 6,500 feet changes a lot including lift from the tunnel.
02-07-2018, 01:08 PM
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I'm not going to have enough time to go out there and test it before the Miami boat show so it will be 3 weeks till I go back out there to put the engines back in and go run it.
02-07-2018, 04:49 PM
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Industrial is building the new exhaust for the boat but were not sure if it will be done with enough time for me to go out there and install the engines and test before I have to leave for the Miami boat show. I will update once I head out there.
I have not been on here in a week because I was sick. Here is a video of what it was like when I ask Tristan for a bowl of chicken noodle soup.
https://youtu.be/gLj7fj-3L78
I have not been on here in a week because I was sick. Here is a video of what it was like when I ask Tristan for a bowl of chicken noodle soup.
https://youtu.be/gLj7fj-3L78
03-08-2018, 11:46 AM
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The engine compound turbo piping is done. They are putting heat wrap on the exhaust side and painting the cold side piping and I am flying back out there to Salt Lake City this weekend to put the engines back in and go test run the boat probably next weekend. Once we get the engines mounted in the boat we will have to make new exhaust from the turbo back since it has changed locations.
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