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Heres what it looks like running.
The numbers do seem pretty good, however I take no credit what so ever for them I'm just the big dummy pushing down on that foot shaped pedal, takes no skill on my part.
Gunny, that is the same for me, didn't build it, but drive the hell out of it. It's yours, run it till it breaks, fix it and do it all again.
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Heres what it looks like running.
There is also the Classic Boat Beach Bash that Hackjob and Flatbroke put on every year at the Avi Casino in Laughlin NV on the Colorado River.
www.classicboatbeachbash.com
Hey Gunny!
100LL avgas is anything but unleaded, it is low lead as compared to the 120/130 avgas it replaced.
It is very hygroscopic, which is egg head for absorbs water like a sponge.
It will also foul out an O2 sensor if you use it on fuel injection or Lambda meter.
If you plan on using avgas be very carefull of corrosion in your fuel system, as the avgas absorbs water, any dissimilar metal in the system starts to get galvanic corrosion. Gets ugly fast.
Aircraft recip. engines generally need to clean the sparkplugs every 50 hours or so to prevent lead fouling.
Have fun!
Regards, Chris
OK I'll bite.
Nuetral in my jet is somewhere between forward and reverse.
Works pretty good for me.
Brian
I usually launch and recover with the boat off anyway. I don't liek sucking shit into my pump.
Hey gunny, I was referring to the setup that you currently own. My bad if it came across to you the wrong way. Like I said before, take some pics so we have refrence to help you with. A picture has a 1000 words to go with itThe numbers that you are running are very good ones
396
Chris,
While there is not a chance in hell for me to understand all you said, you are correct the AvGas was Low Lead and not No Lead. So I stand corrected--- Bad Gunny, Bad Gunny!!!!
Brian,
I undersatnd about the shit sucking ( as it pertains to the jet pump that is ). But I gotta tell you something that water temp in the Delta was 51 degrees where I launched the boat "Today". There was no way in hell i wanted to get out and wade in that stuff, and then scoot around the lake at speed-- No Way!! Its bad enough having to get in the water when i load the boat onto the trailer, but i do this by myself like in all alone and I'll be damn if i can figure a way to not get wet. I drive the boat onto the trailer just fine but then I have to get out of the boat and there is simple no way for me to do it. I walk with a cane right now, and i hope that all of this boat stuff will get me off of that damn cane soon, so sometimes just getting into and out of the boat is a struggle. That and some of these guys at the boat ramp i gotta tell you. I thought that for sure and for certain that today i was going to have to give this one ass-hole a tune up. Boy needed an attitude adjustment in the worst way, and he fuc&ed with the right guy to get one. I was tired to the bone after spending most of the morning and some of the afternoon on the water. What i didn't need was this lame ass guy giving me grief for being slow, hell man there are at least a dozen spots on the ramp and he and I where the only two loading up. Pick another spot ass-hole!! Sorry guys I'm ranting not cool.
Gunny
Hey 396,
Man I did not mean it that way, not at all. What I did mean was I really do apprciate all you and everyone has to say. When it comes to these boats i am a dump ass, I simply don't have a frame of experiance to call on. I will ask questions and I am always grateful for an answer. As a matter of fact i have read a lot of your posts and I believe that you do actually know what you are talking about. Now if you want to talk about being a Marine maybe i can speak to that some after 30 years in the Corps, but boats NO man i simply do not know. But i am willing to learn!!! Hope I'm not to damn old to do that, as this Jet Boat thing is some kind of cool thing.
Gunny
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