New 30 LS7 finally in the paint booth
 

its true its in the paint booth going out there monday will post some picks ran one motor the other day 700 hp at 6200 rpm some still left 632 torque made 532 ftlbs at 4000 rpm ran awsome

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I know i dont knoe how to down size the graghic rendering to post it give me your email and i will send it to you so you can do it okay

ryan at kineticanimation dot com

Congratz BIG Daddy :ernaehrung004::ernaehrung004:

Nice!

That's good power, really good power considering they are small blocks.

The boat should fly..

Are they running closed cooling with the aluminum blocks?

yes they are all aluminum and closed cooling

Jim's Pics.....

Very nice design. Is Skater painting it?

thanks ryan you the man nice looking boat

WOW !!!! That is going to be off the HOOK !!!! Congrats !!!

chris from exstreme body works in holland is painting it he is like 10 minutes from skater he has been great to work with super nice guy 517 712 3512

What drives did you go with ? Do you have more pics ?

Cant wait to see how it runs.

Now thats a sweet Christmas present!! :D

Jim,

That does not look anything like the pics you showed me quite some time ago.

I like the new look, it looks great!

See ya soon.

PS: I have a full crew for next weeks FMO thanksgiving weekend run to South Seas Plantation. The kids (Mark & Darcy) will be down from Gainesville, Nancy is riding down to SSP, and I will drop her off before the event starts. Yes this is her maiden voyage in this Skater.

We had a great time last year with you in my boat, sorry you guys could not make this one.

Hay frank the pics last year year were just hte cad drawing from skater i will be down hter on the 11 thrugh the 15 and yes this is a nice christmas present my wife keeps remiding me and thats neat frank your wifes getting here ride cool will talk to ya i will be going to the spray booth on wensday not today so pics will be then sorry

Very nice design BIG Daddy , gonna look awesome :ernaehrung004::ernaehrung004:

thanks guys cant wait its been a long time but thats half the fun

Looks awesome!!!!!

Jim the drawings look sick, can't wait to see the boat.


Andy

did the finall tuning on the first motor today 722 hp at 6500 531ft of torque at 3500 and peak 645 ft torque at 5800 this thing is stillmaking 600ft of torque at 6300 rpm and remember these are small blocks they are torque monsters

Where did you get the motors ? What drives and trans are you using ? Do you have any pics of the motors ?

i built the motors with a local guy thinking of using the new Xpower drive xpowerdrive.com neat web sight will post some pics of the motors these things arae going to be awsome fuel injected naturally aspirated no brainers

Jim,

WOW!, Thats great power.

We had a great time this weekend, missed you guys.

The past weekend, we participated in the third annual Ft. Myers Offshore (FMO) Thanksgiving weekend run.

Our destination was South Seas Plantation.

For us it was a round trip of 100 miles, by boat. The weather was perfect, the seas were a bit bumpy, and SSP is an amazing place.

This was my wife Nancy’s, first ride in this Skater. I dropped her off at SSP before the event started.

Thank you Bob Barnhart and the entire FMO board/team for a great event.

I have posted the 70 pictures we took at

http://www.kodakgallery.com/ViewSlid....1228064342293

Here is Nancy, just before the ride back.

Hay frank glad you had fun i was real happy with the motor actually overwhellmed i tolded the efi guy he can stop tuning now thats enough glad all went whell will be down on the 10th

how does the xpower compare in price ? Its a neat looking drive. you are really testing alot of new hardware, good luck.

its a little pricey but there claming it will hold up to 1400 hp its over kill for my application but i want it bullet prove they have a stainless stell gimball ring for the housing also which is the weak link in the bravo but they use a number 6 prop shaft on the drive which is nice you get to run real props

Thats is insane power.

My SBC race motors were 374cid, 14:1 cr, race fuel, modified ported singe 4 barrel carb, ported & polished intake and heads, CMI dry exhaust, and I made 680hp at 7800 or something like that, its been a while.

This efi stuff really works well.

Call me when you get to FL.

You can make just as much power with carb as you can with efi. The cid on the ls7 is 427 quite a bit more. the compression is 11:1 and its dry sumped.

the big diff is controlling things like detonation etc with the efi.

CM

WOW 427 thats huge compared to mine. On paper, that puts mine at 776 based on cid increase. I was also not dry-sumped, which does help alot.

Still, very impressive.

Thanks for the cid info.

Jim,

Are you bring the O/B 30?

Where's dem pictures ??

This is going to be one HOT boat !!

I just posted a bunch of pictures for Jim of his boat at http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...jims-boat.html

Thats not a normal ls7, cant wait to see how this boat works out. He is really trying some new stuff.

Your right there world products tall deck aluminum blocks and there 460 cubic inch the stock LS7 is 427 our comp ratio is 10,0 to 1 for pump gas

Thats going to look awesome!! Can't wait to see the boat when it's done.

all cleared waiting sanding and buffing will post ass soon as i get them looking good

ready for rigging will post pics soon