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Old 10-23-2017, 12:57 PM
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Looking good, get some video of it in action ASAP curious to see how it performs, did you add steering and fuel coolers at this point?
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Old 10-23-2017, 01:44 PM
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Where has Chris been for all this work? Seems like your partner should be doing his part!
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Old 10-23-2017, 02:09 PM
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Doesn’t look like good boating weather today.

Michigan Or Mackatawa?
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Tyson good luck on your run and thanks again for doing your build thread.
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Originally Posted by ApachePete
Doesn’t look like good boating weather today.

Michigan Or Mackatawa?
I finally had it ready to run Monday morning at around 8 am so we headed to the water and no the weather was not good. It was 40 degrees and raining, but I had to be back home in Joplin that night so I could not wait till the next day. I will post more later tonight but we ran it a couple passes and had something happen to one of the engines. Not sure what happened yet. We had the low tune in the engine and it ran 103 MPH, was still gaining but we were in the little lake so did not have a lot of room.

On a good note, the Ceramic pro coating is still working good. The water definitely beads up.
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Old 10-25-2017, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by BigSilverCat
I finally had it ready to run Monday morning at around 8 am so we headed to the water and no the weather was not good. It was 40 degrees and raining, but I had to be back home in Joplin that night so I could not wait till the next day. I will post more later tonight but we ran it a couple passes and had something happen to one of the engines. Not sure what happened yet. We had the low tune in the engine and it ran 103 MPH, was still gaining but we were in the little lake so did not have a lot of room.

On a good note, the Ceramic pro coating is still working good. The water definitely beads up good.
damn that sucks to hear, hopefully its just something simple and nothing major
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Old 10-25-2017, 12:33 PM
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Good numbers for first time out, it seems to have the usual hop at mid 70s did you push through it OK?

What rpms were you pulling at 103?
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Did I miss a video? ^^^
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Wondering the same...first pic has the Tabs indicator to the moon.
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Old 10-25-2017, 08:56 PM
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Ok! He's planning a large cat in the cold rain? I know waiting for His response will be worth it. Thanks for sharing.
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