Blarney Races Pic Post!!!!

[K3-River-Rat]

Hey Guys, I know that the guy that set the blower up took some "shortcuts" to get it all to work and "jerry-rigged" (for lack of a better word) this thing together so he wouldn't have to part with his "GOOD" parts to sell the boat! I "did" buy the correct parts to set the blower "properly" You guys should see the spacer set up this guy made out of a chunk of aluminum and a fan blade spacer he cut up to make an idler adjuster spacer he put between the blower housing and idler so he could run a harmonic balancer on it rather than have to give up his crank hub! He turned the drive pulley around "backwards" so the belt would line up having that balancer on the crank instead of a blower crank hub. If nothing else I can say the guy had a pretty good immagination to dream that up. I bought a good double keyed blower crank hub off e-bay a while back and figured I could build a different motor set up over the winter so I could put the blower motor in the V-drive and get the 48 gears switched over to 22s or maybe a set of 18s? Infomaniac, what gears do you have in your boat and what kind of RPM are you turning at speed? I downloaded a couple of them videos you had posted and your boat is "quite" impressive! Clown seems a bit concerned that I want to come up to Blarney to kick some ass Fact is I really just want to watch or maybe race a few runs just for fun now and then. wink I've done my share of competitive racing at the dragstrip with my 69 Camaro. It's an expensive hobby that requires a lot of work and dedication. I love playing with high performance Chevy motors and have done it all my life. I've had the fastest boat on the Kankakee river for several years up until this year when my buddy dropped that 502 with the 1671 TBS supercharger that was special ordered then threw that Enderle injection on top that he had swiped out of the V-drive before he sold it to me. I will "no doubt" reclaim my fastest boat status (on the Kankakee river anyhow)next summer when I get the Sanger dialed in since it will be the "only" V-drive out there! I just want to go hang out at Blarney to meet some new people make a few new friends and maybe pick up a few new customers that I could do some work for. wink The Kankakee river is TOO shallow, there are TOO many boats and it is TOO small. There is only my buddy Tye and myself that are willing to spend the money it takes to have a fast boat that go out on the river. There are only "two" other jets out there that are running tunnel ram motors aside of Tye and myself that run blowers. The rest of the "very few" guys simply just can't afford it. Tye and myself also have a few years on the rest of the high performance guys and they sort of look at us as their "mentors" which I guess is OK as far as Tye and I are concerned. We always try to help them out in any way we can and we all are very good friends and "always" have a great time out on the river but Tye & his wife and myself are looking for a little something "different" to do, so I suggested going up to Blarney from time to time, I think it would be a lot of fun!
[ October 24, 2002, 01:29 PM: Message edited by: K3-River-Rat ]

[superdave013]

Info runs 37's and his rpm is in the high 7K range. He's running alki too. Pretty stout deal.

[K3-River-Rat]

Thanks for the reply Superdave wink BTW Thanks also for the e-mail yesterday

[KAPTAIN KIRK]

Yes I may have a blender onda back!!
But I will try and run wit any of ya anytime !!!
Anyone interested in trying out the lower fox or chain o lakes and blarneys consider an open invitation from myself and my lady ta take ya out and show ya the shallows and the deep spots and where the local badges park!!
Let me know ahead of time and I will do my best ta get ya a place ta stay and ramp spot !!
E- me when the time comes at RAPIDCRAPPER@AOL.COM
K.K.

[K3-River-Rat]

intimidator:
thats one nice temporary motor rat.they say its totally different from jet to v-drive.i'm on my second jet.by yhe way explain in none computor guru how post pics this site. would appreciate.Intimidator, the magic is ("paste" the "peoperties" of the pic here) that's it I'm sure you know how to post a pic already (right?) if not, click on "media center" from the home page then click on "post your picture" choose the place you want the pic to be saved to "readers rides" etc.once the pic has uploaded,"right click" the BIG pic (not the thumbnail) go to the bottom of the box and click on "properties" it will pop up another box. go to the "URL" put your mouse arrow on the center of the URL then double "left" click to "highlight" the URL then "right" click again go down to "copy" left click again.You now have the pic properties "loaded" into your mouse.Then go back to whatever forum you were wanting to post the pics.Now just bring up the "reply" box and follow the above directions "right" click "paste" keep your eye on the cursor when you do this, it will sometimes "move" on you! click the "preview post" and the pic "should be there wink I will usually open 2 Hot Boat windows at the same time to do this (makes it go a lot faster)After you do it a few times you'll get the hang of it! It's actually quite simple once you catch on wink Good Luck BTW Thanks for the compliment on my "temporary" motor

[K3-River-Rat]

KAPTAIN KIRK:
Yes I may have a blender onda back!!
But I will try and run wit any of ya anytime !!!
Anyone interested in trying out the lower fox or chain o lakes and blarneys consider an open invitation from myself and my lady ta take ya out and show ya the shallows and the deep spots and where the local badges park!!
Let me know ahead of time and I will do my best ta get ya a place ta stay and ramp spot !!
E- me when the time comes at RAPIDCRAPPER@AOL.COM
K.K.K.K.Thank You for the invitation that would be "very much" appreciated I tried like hell to get the guys to make a trip up with me "this" year but the other guys just couldn't get off of work to go on a Thursday If nothing else next year I will come up by myself on Thurs.and have the rest of the gang "meet" me there on Sat.and stay the weekend wink I'm sure I'll be talking with a lot of you guys that hang out up that way through these winter months ahead of us.I wish I could afford to take my boat and go out west for the winter Some of the guys I have met from out west seem to be some really great people Who knows? Maybe it's in my future! OH,BTW I DO still own my Mantra Tunnel-hull Jetboat I might just bring that one the first time I come up?

[Clown]

K-3
Where on the kanke do you guys run?
I run on the illinois river by big basin its near the
tee of the kanke in channahan jsdhfgkasyhdf or who ever you spell it!I never see anyone with hot shit out there.

[K3-River-Rat]

Clown:
K-3
Where on the kanke do you guys run?
I run on the illinois river by big basin its near the
tee of the kanke in channahan jsdhfgkasyhdf or who ever you spell it!I never see anyone with hot shit out there. Clown,we run right in the city of K3 where I57 crosses over the river.You've probably heard of the Kankakee River Regatta Races on Labor Day weekend??? Outboard Circle boat races (not really of much interest to me personally) Quite a "big" deal,professional racers from all over the country come to run in these races and it draws a "huge" crowd!! Pretty big weekend party with bands at night, a small carnival, beer garden etc. Only "bad" thing about it is "someone" decided it was the "BIG FINISH" marking the last weekend of boating season in Kankakee and "most" everyone winterizes their boats and you don't see them til the following year!? I could just "choke" who ever it was that made this up!! There is actually only a small length of the river that is boatable. The only reason that portion of it is even usable is due to the fact they built a dam at Washington Ave. and raised the water level. They used to put boards in the dam in the spring to raise the level a bit higher to make the boating area a little larger then remove them in the fall.The river changes every year due to the sand that washes in from Indiana and the usable channel to get up and down the river also moves around a bit from year to year depending on where the spring thaw ice and high water from the spring rain is flowing and carving the deeper path that year It's a pretty "tricky" river to navigate and it's getting to the point that if they don't do "something" different in a few more years you will not be able to run anything out there but jets. You might be running in 10ft of water and move left or right just a few feet and run your boat on ground A lot of people chew the shit out of their props every weekend and if they don't know "where" the channel is at in the river that year they had better "ask" one of us that has determined exactly "where" we need to run for the season to take them the length of the river and "show" them the "path" where they need to run to get from point A to point B or they won't be boating for very long due to damage It's almost like trying to run a boat in a "creek" in several areas and is QUITE dangerous! Like I have said in the past there are only a "handfull" of us that have high performance boats and just until "this" year I was the only one running a blower. My buddy Tye told me every year for 5 years he was going to have a blower on his boat "next" year He finally got the job done this past summer and I think one of the reasons it took him so long was the fact that he wanted to have a set-up "bigger & better" than what I had He "DID" go all out and spent over $20,000.00 for the motor!! It's a 502 BBC with a polished billet aluminum 1671 TBS supercharger, Super Chiller intercooler and an Enderle bug catcher mechanical injection system. "beautiful motor" runs great,only problem was the fact he had blown up so many motors he was scared to death to run it!! He never came straight out and would "admit" it but I've known him about 20 years and "knew" better!! So it spent all summer "parked" at the island looking pretty. He would cruise it past the island and throw up a few rooster tails after the no wake (past the island) ended at 6:00PM then park it again.I finally got him to "push" it a bit on Labor Day (last day of boating season) The Conservation Police has all the local jetboaters put on a little "show" for all the spectators that marks the end of the weekend just after the final race on Monday. The races are held a little ways east of the dam where the river is the deepest and widest. All boats with place diverters are lined up side by side the width of the river and run past the spectators with roosters shooting up as high as you can get them up there. We generally run past turn around go back by then race back to our island to finish our own party. My buddy Tye was out of fuel for the rooster run and I just happened to have an extra jug of 114 left in my truck. His motor sounded "real" healthy on the 114. Since I don't have a place diverter on my jet we just left my boat at the island and I rode with him. It wasn't all to difficult to get him to "jump" on that motor a bit.(that's the only reason I know that motor runs as strong as it does)Here's a couple of pics from Labor Day weekend. I think there was only two of the guys that weren't there that day, I'm pretty sure this is all the rest of our group. [img]http://free.***boat.net/gallery/Reader_Rides/Jet_Boats/MVC-005F1.JPG[/img] [img]http://free.***boat.net/gallery/Reader_Rides/Jet_Boats/MVC-019F.JPG[/img]

[K3-River-Rat]

Forgot to mention I know exactly where you're at over there by Big Basin Marina. I had a big boat a while back I kept over at Bay Hill. Before anyone pokes fun at those #s on my boat they were just temporary ones I stuck on it in the parking lot right before I put it in the water for the weekend. I had never bothered to file the paperwork til this year after the TN registration finally expired. Took IL forever to issue me a title and registration #s

[Clown]

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