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Originally Posted by TYPHOON
(Post 2748522)
How does cruise controll on a car work? You hit a speed and it maintains it. Is that a complicated system?
MD Sleepy Pirate worked out a system that limited his rpm's. Once he set his boat up to run 74mph he locked the rpm's in and once the boat would reach that rpm a "Limiter would kick in".. In not 100% sure about the out come. |
Originally Posted by Fast Shafts
(Post 2748528)
2 Trick,
Thats were the confusion lies, we have the original OPA approved GPS (with the wire antena) the ATTI Shadow Tracker J2. This is why I asked for clarification from Smitty. Thanks, Bob G I was told those are no longer good. I wish the OPA would allow us to run them 1 more year, with this great economy dropping another $900.00 bucks on a GPS just plain sucks. |
Hey George, I felt your pain in K.W. also!!! I was in total shock to find out how high tech some of the teams really are on the Garman gps game? After getting home I spent some time on the phone with the IT people at Garman and you are able to trick the mouse trap and due it legally. No sour grapes here, just my lack of knowledge and information that caused our break out. Once again all ears for any meetings or class calls!!!!!
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Originally Posted by HighPriority
(Post 2748526)
For class5 I like the idea of going up on the break out speed up a couple mph. A couple other things,
NO canopyed boats at all (open boats would not have a chance) Stay with single engine boats Keep the boat lenguth at 30" and let us run the old gps system ($500. could be used to pay our OPA fees early next year) |
Originally Posted by GoFastSonic
(Post 2748540)
I like the idea about raising the top to 78 MPH. Would ad a little more excitment. As far as single engines? Ther are 3 twin engine boats in class 5 I think. I think that class 6 with singles is fine and leave 5 for either single or twins.
The speed should stay the same in every class, if you want to go faster than power up and move up. If anything we should try and line the speeds with SBI with the future hope of a unified race series.. (as doubtful as that is at this time) |
What's wrong with it the way it is? The OPA team has done a great job with the classes and it's about as fair as you can get. Although nothing is fool proof, it's close. If the other racing bodies would like to work on a one set of rules then do it. That would make for a great boat count. It also allows the newbies to afford racing and move up the ranks.
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Originally Posted by georgeeisenhart
(Post 2748307)
After getting Dq,d in key west I got to wondering if it isn't possible to control our speed as well as our r.p.m.Im' a low tech. guy in a high tech world but it seems to me we should be able to link the g.p.s. to our allowable class speed. most of us have felt the pain a breakout. any one have some knowledge of the possibility of such equpt.at a price we could handle.GrumpyG
Yes hook the MSD box to the throttle and the speedo. When you hit 74.8 in class 5 it sends 50000 volts to the throttle hand. :D |
Originally Posted by TylerCrockett
(Post 2748596)
Yes hook the MSD box to the throttle and the speedo. When you hit 74.8 in class 5 it sends 50000 volts to the throttle hand. :D
Tyler, We need to develop a system similiar to the automotive trunk monkey system. When you get close to breakout speed the trunk monkey jumps out of the cabin and wails the throttleman with a broomstick handle. |
Why change the rules just because we can? Rasing the speed of a class just makes it more difficult to explain to a fan. 10 mph increments is much better.
My only complaint is that there aren't more races in the midwest. Use the old GPS another year and save $900 also gets my vote. |
Grandfather the Twin engine boats in class 5, just a matter of
time before we get another Twin small block Superboat to decimate the field. |
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