40' Outlaw Upgrades - Twin 900Sc to 1000hp Duramax Diesels
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Does the Australian owner ever fly in to run the boat and what was the original build budget vs what is actually into this thing!?!?!? Gotta be getting up there!!
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However when not messing with Voodoo, hacking CANbus is how I spend the majority of my day. So...
Pic from a little Raspberry Pi test bed running Signal K Server. Maybe for involving live stream video, with full onboard telemetry data overlay...
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ksalmine (02-05-2023)
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The exact figure, probably about half what TG has in his high speed diesel project to date. If we dropped all the powertrain in a brand new Outerlimits hull tommow, still be less coin than a new Cig CC with quad outboards. And still faster in this old straight bottom Baja. Lets just say the labor rate agreed to six years back, remains intact today. Sometimes it's more about the love of accomplishing what many before have tried. And after the last couple runs, she's damn near there. Just tidying up some loose ends that have plagued us since pre-covid days. Then I'll feel safe blasting 200 miles non-stop anywhere, in under 6ft seas. She is a beast fully cranked up..
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Grabbed a burger and caught up a bit at LOTO. Being a dad taking priority these days. One engine had ingested some water and hydro'd on last outing. Bent a rod and scored bottom of a skirt. I suggested just run a hone down it, replace the rod, and go get more valuable data. He's talking about swapping the C's with the new diesel rotary design he's been working on. Which also falls into that, "been attempted but never accomplished" realm of mechanical engineering.
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4 years ago yesterday, we set the engines into Voodoo.
3 years ago last week, Dave and I were in Florida and Voodoo was pumping water for the first time.
Two weeks later, we went for the first test run, and a lower unit failed before ever getting her up on plane.
We removed the drives, sent both out for repair, the same week Covid first showed up in Florida. Dave said "I'm going to Australia, meet you back in Sarasota in 2 months."
A year later, I returned to Florida, and spent two more years waiting for him to show up. I got delayed a bit with the whole Covid thing, so maybe I missed him. But last I heard, he bought a farm somewhere up the coast in the hills of Queensland, and hasn't been seen nor heard from since...
3 years ago last week, Dave and I were in Florida and Voodoo was pumping water for the first time.
Two weeks later, we went for the first test run, and a lower unit failed before ever getting her up on plane.
We removed the drives, sent both out for repair, the same week Covid first showed up in Florida. Dave said "I'm going to Australia, meet you back in Sarasota in 2 months."
A year later, I returned to Florida, and spent two more years waiting for him to show up. I got delayed a bit with the whole Covid thing, so maybe I missed him. But last I heard, he bought a farm somewhere up the coast in the hills of Queensland, and hasn't been seen nor heard from since...
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