I remember watching that video on VHS with Gene W. sitting in his office.
Steve

I hope not!!!!

Steve made them so I'm confident he knows how to set them up. There sure won't be a lot of room between them!

This thread has been magnificent! Beautiful boat, they certainly arn't making them like that anymore.Hope you get a chance to take a couple videos on her maden voyage...That looks uncomfortably close... Hopefully it's just the pic..

The voice on the video is Stephen Fried who used to do a lot of our video back in the day. He had a company named Innerspace Video. A really cool guy. He died of a heart attack in 83 or 84. He was under 40. A great loss to the sport. People used to kid Steve because he used the same music track on all of his stuff. Humberto Picon used to say "Hey Steve, I'm buyn' you a new damn record."

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not sure if I ever saw it in this thread or not but what was the original power back when they set the record??

I searched the thread but didn't come up w anything that indicated the old power. I'm curious too; would really like to know how it compares to what goin in it... Dose anybody suppose one could assume it had blower motors? Or, was it common practice to use race hatches of that size on naturals?

Steve said the boat had small blocks that put out right around 500 horsepower each. Rebuilt HP 500's are going back in supposedly around 508hp each. The biggest difference is the drives and transmission. The boat originally had #2's and then was switched to #4's with Borg Warner trannies. Steve said it ran over 100 with the #2's and slowed down to the 93.890 with the #4's. After the speed trial I believe they got it to run around 95 tops.

It will be interesting to see what she'll run now without the higher loss from the #4's and trannies and with new prop technology. I'm not sure how we'll compare to the weight when it ran in '83 but I suspect it'll be more now with stereo, gps, etc and big blocks.

Any thoughts on doing a future Bimini run with StillCrazy?

Just read through this whole thread in one sitting which is definitely something i usually couldnt do it just kept me on the edge of the chair waiting and wanting to read more keep it all coming

Who needs steps when you have a pad. Bob