Class 7 OPA "60mph" rule?

**CUDA** · 05-26-2016, 04:26 PM

Originally Posted by Chaz

How is you are so up to date on what sneaky guys do ....

Guess you never raced a stock class

**vnemous** · 05-26-2016, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by Chaz

How is you are so up to date on what sneaky guys do ....

I have no idea what you are talking about

**Turborr** · 05-26-2016, 11:02 PM

Looks like a 200 to me!

**Chaz** · 05-27-2016, 07:40 AM

Originally Posted by CUDA

Guess you never raced a stock class

No , but Roy Whaley once told me :
They wont let ya make no power in this class , all ya can do is make sure you don't lose none of what ya got.

Is that a factory decal set ... ? The 2 looks a little crooked ...

**AZMIDLYF** · 05-27-2016, 09:59 AM

Must have been made on the night shift..

**vnemous** · 05-27-2016, 11:16 AM

We are still talking about building a 4 cyl looper for the class and getting this rallysport up and running. Gotta give john norton a call and see what the hit is to put transome and stringers in it.

**AZMIDLYF** · 05-27-2016, 12:06 PM

What will that save...about 100 lbs on the back end?

**FUJIMO** · 05-27-2016, 01:03 PM

www.ChaudronPowerboats.com This is their 25 footer. They also offer a 22, etc... I like the way they race over there...

**Chaz** · 05-27-2016, 01:07 PM

100 pounds , that depends .
He's watched this guy ball mill away deep run's while mumbling something about they build this **** for guys who can break an anvil with a rubber mallet ...

Go head , build a "rally spote" .. !
I'm putting Dirk Pitt and the Instigator in my new "Native" whip .... I gotz a "smokin" hot flex fuel friendly green stripe "pork-chop" being tested ... >

**AZMIDLYF** · 05-27-2016, 01:36 PM

Seem to remember that Tuff photo somewhere.

Fujimo...love those Chaudrons! Narrow 6ft, I believe, beam that slices through the water.

**vnemous** · 05-27-2016, 07:21 PM

Originally Posted by bayratpg

By the way, the hp limit is 300. Buying a 300 that says 250HO and repeating over and over that 250 is the limit and buying a 23 Kryptonite and having the certificate of origin changed to 22 is not what this class was all about. .

Im gonna speculate that you are talking about Birds boat so let me put this out there. We, Fullers, sold him a new Evinrude 250HO Etec last year for the Apache. Thats the motor that was on his boat when it left the shop for this race. Nothing done to it. Now about the length of the boat and what its registered as, we measured it at the shop and it was 22' 8" from transom to tip of nose. We have no idea what the reg says. Thems the fact as we know them

**vnemous** · 05-27-2016, 08:16 PM

No I didnt take it that way at all. Just thought there was some doubt. The 250 HO is a very strong torque y motor and probably makes close to 275 hp. Like many other motors now a day the only difference is the computer.

**vnemous** · 05-28-2016, 05:21 AM

Well my place in stuart is about a mile from the test center. Maybe I will buy coffee and go knock on their door

**tux974** · 05-28-2016, 05:41 AM

I heard something about fuel.
My uneducated response/question is, what difference does it make if the motor or racer runs fuel (NO spray) and keeps HP under the approved 300?? Is the class unmolested stock motors only? I'm asking because i do not know.
To me once again (uneducated) feel that a 3.0L is not the motor for this class when running a light 22' boat.
To me the idea is to produce the max HP on a motor down low, get to 60 ASAP, keep the boat with proper control in the turns, accelerated well, setup to best hook up HP to water and keeping boat extremely well balanced especially under some of those conditions.

PS; I'm commenting on this thread because I have been around some of these guys from the beginning!!!

BTW, I have a few motors sitting waiting for the right transom along with this LITTLE PH under the cover built to run on the right SOB....

Out for more parts will be back shortly....