Hey G went by today at 4 since i was in thearea.Left a little corona and lime for you in the beck of the Dodge truck. Also Steve said Hey
-Mike

that thing is a monster.sick:party-smiley-048:

gift of a life time
 

Art, da ya think my kid will get it for me and the misses haha

I wanted to let everyone know that you can now go to www.principle propulsionsystems.com or PPSmarine.com to see some of the current and up and coming projects we are working on.

let me try that again. www. principlepropulsionsystems.com or www.ppsmarine.com

Yes I believe so.

after seeing him at the boneyard , he will be a racer for sure:coolcowboy::coolcowboy::coolcowboy::coolcowbo y::coolcowboy: later

Yep, my drives, my cylinders...

Rik Whats are options with these?

Whats up with the 19 spline?

http://www.offshoreonly.com/classifi...o32229-en.html

Cool thread! More hits than any other skater thread, except for the "Sticky" Skater pics thread!

perfect
 

Rik, absolutely fantastic set up GREAT work and engineering. Actually had a chance to see them in person in Key West 09 ! Hope the project comes to your complete satisfaction and fruition. Resulting in the speeds and safety that Al would have liked to attain !

Looks like you have been practicing.

Hey Gerry, did you get a copy of the Fairhaven DVD that Billy put together?

Yes I Did Dan, I didnt realize how much hair I have lost.

Say hi To the boys at OL for me.

Gerry you werent born with that hair due
-Mike

Lenco, Richmond, SCS +
 

Many things ?

Mike Sage said no on the counter crashbox.
I have the recent ones by the way.

BPM offers couter 14 inch drop boxes.

right hand out-put
 

What's a "couter" ? :asskiss: Glad u have the recent 1's

Here are some pics of our latest twin engine package delivered to Trinidad. These engines will be installed with the exhaust facing rearward and the inlet forward. The opposite as that in KNOT RIGHT

We would like to mention also the boat WARCRY has also been delivered. Look for this boat at the lake of the ozarks. 3000HP in a 36' cat. DAAAAAMN

Nice Jim!

Top mount starters. I beleave SCS is making the right angle gearbox.

How is he getting powersteering?

Jim is that a chain in the drop box?
If they are gears then it could counter rotate one output.
If not they would rely on the drive.

If they have not left yet can ya get a center measurement
from the rotor to the center of the input shaft of crash box?
Who fabricated the drop box?

I would consider that to be a better avenue to take.
You could run a drive shaft under straight to a Arneson or BPM.

I also notice two calipers on the rotor.

Innovation for sure!
Now be a good boy and go build some more Turbines!:drink:

Who built that boat?

Here is the full rap around windshield installed
its wrapped with 16 gauge 316 brushed stainless
around the full perimeter. I was going to form the stainless
band myself bought the stainless and all. Thought of the guy
who made my stainless intakes he banged it out in less then two hours charged me 180. What was I thinking?
It is 3/4 inch thick and formed with cast acrylic.

It should make a world of difference in the entire cockpit.

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Try the tub out this weekend.

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Yup........
-Mike

Looks very nice!

I think that looks much cleaner then the F-16 style windshields! :drink:

Outstanding improvement!!!!!!!!!!!!

Looks great!!! This one of the best threads on OSO!

Windshield looks Sweet!

looks great!

Looks great but be very careful. I saw a guy's arm get severed by a windscreen like that.

Gerry were you standing on my deck taking those pics, wish we had a motor to start saber 101:eek:

Very Nice! Very interesting! Gets the engine pointed in the right direction, exhaust exists closer to the transom...farther away from the crew, less noise/fumes. Improved shaft alignment between the crashbox & drive. Ability to drive assessories off the front.
Questions...
Counter rotating possibilities?
How much power does it consume?
Raises cg?
Need to be cooled?
Ed

Lot's of great questions? counter rotating possibilities. Yes. how much power doues it consume. Not much. Raises cg. depends. need to be cooled. Yes. Let's talk. Jim Grasham 520-245-2849. www.principlepropulsionsystems.com

Hello my fellow turbinators.

In the never ending plan to create a better turbine boat
lets modify a few things.

In normal boat rigging thinking everyone uses water
to chill things out.

A Turbine does not need water and in a copter there is no water.
The helicopter uses a tube style air to liquid exchanger to cool its
engine oil. the size of this is approx 11x14 and 3 inches thick.

Currently I am using huge 6 inch diameter custom built
28 inch long liquid to liquid coolers, Sea strainers circulation pumps, Skater water pickups 1-1/2 hose gate valves,check valves approx 180lbs per side. How much drag do the water pickups use?

So what if we try to eliminate water in a turbine boat?
I shopped around and Fluidyne make a pretty bad ass cooler
which can be mounted any where.it is 15x15 by 3 inches thick
it is a plate type cooler which is more efficient then tube coolers.

I have decided to mount it where the sound elimination duct work
was. I really never used it anyway.

Here are some shots of the new cooler mounted on isolation dampeners. I will begin the plumbing tomorrow.

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My plan is to leave all the original water devices intact and try
this out on one side. The second side incorporates the power steering cooler I sent Gary at Fluidyne some pictures and he can create one of the coolers with a separate small circuit to accommodate the steering. He said they love to help gear heads out.

I am still running the canton oil t stats.
The original setup really never seen oil temperatures above
180-190 I am assuming the dry sump turbine oil system is less
demanding then the piston engine counter part.
Remember 75 percent of the air coming into a turbine is used
for cooling the other 25 for power.

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Hope ya just joking :eek: but should it be all true how did it happen and what was the failure ?

hair dryers for the misses
 

Gerry, nice move, a 400 lbs weight savings is excellent ! What size oil lines ya goin to run #10 ? The coolers look nice and beefy ! What are the BTU ratings and what is the fluid capacity ? Lots of outside the engine compartment cool air being drawn in SWEET ;)

it tested well to day I'CE, NOW GO BY THAT 40 footer and put your sut motors in it for the summer.

Knot, got question on vibration mount.

are they rated to hang a unit from them? i always thought they were supposed to have only downward load. the reason i ask is that i have Hardin Marine motor mount on BBCs and they mount the MSD boxes vertically. i've ran into problems when the isolation mounts broke. I've since increased the sized of the rubber mounts.

and in another boat I've been working on, I changed the spare MSD's to a flat mount so just in case so theres less of a chance of having the boxes break off and cause havoc.

it seems from your pictures your hanging the entire cooler and fan assembly.