Hardy DRAG video here! Tearing it up at the Sandbar

[pyro]

Edited video from Saturday at Hardy Party '05. A big party at the sandbar with some outboard drag racing, all with PERFECT weather, 83 and sunny. What a blast!
A sample of Saturday's recreational activities:

I fixed the dead link.
VIDEOS ARE BACK UP!
Low-res video: http://media.putfile.com/hardy320


Photos from the weekend here: http://forums.screamandfly.com/forums/showthread.php?t=91612

Thanks to the Sandy Beach campground regulars and everyone else we met at Hardy Dam, you are all wonderful people.

-Chad

[SUPAJAY]

Nice vid... over here everyone talks sh*t but no one EVER races.

[drag120]

What a geat weekend!! It was great to see everyone. Glad that Pops and Rick A. came up and slaughtered the fish population (even though they released them). I'll be looking forward to running Frank next year with the fire breathing OMC on nitrous. Tom

[ken medendorp]

Ican't seened to get the video to work

[pyro]

Windows Media Player should automatically pop up on the page. Update your software. Nice to finially meet you, Ken.

[sho305]

Nice! Looks like that might be the last high temp weekend too, they are saying no more hot temps and 70s this week. 70s not bad though:)

[drasticplastic]

Nice vid Pyro, hope you had fun at the river. Nice to meet you and your better half. Maybe see ya again yet this year. I have @36 pics I took that I could E-Mail to ya if you would like to post them.

[ken medendorp]

Windows Media Player should automatically pop up on the page. Update your software. Nice to finially meet you, Ken.


It was nice meeting you and your wife Chad hopefully I'll have my boat up and running for Wamplers shoot out

[JRider]

Nice vid... over here everyone talks sh*t but no one EVER races.

There were more races than that...hope someone else got some more video of sunday. Jeff and I were neck and neck.

[Rhinostream]

Hey nice vids pyro, It was nice meeting you also another person of impeccable taste to own a hydrostream vegas! I hope you had a good time and hopefully see you again at next years hardy party! It was nice to see jrider again, he is a hell of a guy an a pretty good boat driven son of a gun!
Jamie

[pyro]

Wish I could have stayed longer on Sunday. Everyone wanted to see us top out our XT's side by side. There were at least 6 Hydrostreams on the water: our Vegas XT's, a pair of Valero YT's, Jrider's HST, and a Vector, I think I saw a Vulture or a V-King down by Sandy Beach as well.

[Unchained]

Did anyone take any pics of me running against that Hydro ?
I had to listen to sour grapes for the rest of the day and Sunday too from the V-Drive Hydro driver. "If we had gone farther........I was catching up.......when can we run again" :rolleyes:

I took the engine out of the boat and pulled off the oil pan. It looks like I need a new oil pump and a couple other small repairs. It appears that the pickup hasn't been on the end of the oil pump tube for a while ( like all season ). That explains some things. The tube sucked up a piece of aluminum that had broke off the inside of the oil pan windage tray and it found it's way to the oil pump and that's what siezed it up and caused me to loose all oil pressure saturday. If the pick up hadn't broke off, the screen on the pickup would have stopped it and there wouldn't have been a problem.
I looked at #1 rod bearing and it looks good.
Hopefully the rest are OK too.

I must have wound that engine up to 7k at least 50 times this season without an oil pump pickup. :eek:
It could have been a lot worse.

I hope to throw a hun at it and be back on the water by the weekend.

[mercstv]

great to see you chad and your wife, you guys come back anytime. :D I was waiting to see that vagas shotout :eek: well maybe next year ;) I also wanted to see big d and gtrain go :eek: :eek: :D ;) again maybe next year ;)
mark glad to hear nothing to bad, and as for that hydro he had nothing for you :) you had a good 4 links on him in the first 400'

[JW]

Thanks! :D

[Tom Foley]

Pyro , nice Vid , Superboat millenium , come to Fl or Al or SC or GA , they all talk shizzit AND race . I went to Smiths Bend ,AL , this year for the first time and must have made 20 passes in my Euro against a friend from Fl , Euro Scott . Had a blast !!

[sho305]

What the....! Oil pickup? You never know what will go in a boat. I thought for sure you were going to say that screen was too restrictive for your motor:D Hope its all OK inside, been there before.

[JRider]

Forgot to say it was great to see ya Chad (and the better half ;) )...and I will let you WAX my boat any time... :p at least the finish...!!! Gotta say that vegas shines like its new!

[JRider]

Tom, Jeff, Jeff B, Mark, Mark, Big daddy, Dan, Dan, Pyro, Ken, John...good to see everybody again this year...will be back more frequently next year!!! (and maybe a little faster ;) :eek: )

[Rhinostream]

Geez Jrider didnt even mention my name, I must have made him mad callin him Kenny Chesney all weekend. I was just jokin man! :mad:
The HST looked good though!
Pyro why didnt ya say anything I would have ran ya, i probably would have got stomped but I would have ran. There is always the next time I guess.

[pyro]

I didn't want to lose my parking spot! Every time someone from "outboard row" tried to go for a ride, a f---ing I/O, pontoon or jet boat would steal their parking spot.

Don't count on getting beat, my motor's getting tired. I took Kibbey for a ride, with a spare full 5 gal gas can and a full cooler on board, the two of us could barely hit 70. We'll run 'em next summer...

[JRider]

Geez Jrider didnt even mention my name, I must have made him mad callin him Kenny Chesney all weekend. I was just jokin man! :mad:
The HST looked good though!
Pyro why didnt ya say anything I would have ran ya, i probably would have got stomped but I would have ran. There is always the next time I guess.

Man, I knew I was going to get some **** for forgetting someone :( Kenney is a compliment...too bad he sold out and married that ugly bitch! Anyway, good to see you too bud...will definately be hangin out a lot more next summer. :D

[drasticplastic]

Jrider, good to here that you plan on comming up/over more often next year. There will prob. be alot more people doing the same, based off the comments above.

[Rhinostream]

Hey I was only funnin ya Jrider, I am glad you will be around more next year you are a pretty cool guy and it will be nice to have more streams around the sandbar. Hopefully run into you guys sooner rather than later. I had a great time out there this weekend. I hope everyone else did the same!
Jamie

[djporter]

Pyro great shot of the mirage.... Got to say what a good looking boat....lol.... Just kidding just wanted to toot my own horn... Nice to meet you and hope to see ya next year.....

[drasticplastic]

Bump to pg.1

[Unchained]

I got everything repaired on my ride and was back on the water yesterday at Brower. It only cost me $ 70. for a new oil pump, pump driveshaft, and pickup, along with about 4 or 5 hours of wrenching. Good thing I have a TIG welder in the garage too.

Now that I fixed the oil pump I'm ready for a few more blasts before the season is out.
I keep hearing some suggestions that I should run Mr. Terhorst.
I've never met him or seen his boat but I'm ready to have a go at it.

[pyro]

I never saw your squirter run at the sandbar. Next year I'll have to get some video. I really wanted to see you spanking that little hydro. Wow, what a fast couple of boats. All the outboards here got a lot of respect for you, it's got the bark AND the bite!

And I WILL be back at Hardy at least twice next summer!

-Chad

[sho305]

Pyro, did you see the videos of Unchained? What a motor:cool: I'll do my best to run a camera if you run near here, really POs me I just missed the Allison run last time.:(

[pyro]

I will re-upload these videos to Putfile tonight, they didn't get any downloads for a while, so they took them down. Good stuff. Stay tuned. :D :D :D

[sho305]

Hey Pyro, it was -1 degrees here this morning at about 7:30 and I was out in the open garage in my pjs squirting alcohol in the door latch of the car so it would close again...about 2 minutes after I got up....it was cold!:eek: D-loading a hardy video sounds like a good thing to do today for sure.

[KIBBEY]

i sure would like to see them again,next year you can get some pictures of me kickin' some,well you know:D

[pyro]

Putfile made me register and log in.
VIDEOS ARE BACK UP!
Low-res video: http://media.putfile.com/hardy320
High-res video: http://media.putfile.com/hardy640

[sho305]

Thanks I needed that!

[WSJR1]

Nice video work...What MPH are they running ??? Were the Hydrostreams quick/fast ???

[pyro]

Over 100... The sandbar is a great place to race once all the big blocks are done cruising up and down the strip late in the afternoon.

The Hydrostreams weren't racing much. There was another Vegas XT there also with a 200, and also a Valero YT with a 260. (G-train and son.) I saw a nice red flake Vector or V-king there as well, and JRider with his orange and white HST. He made a few nice passes, it will be faster this summer, he says.

I made an aired out pass by the sandbar in my boat at 70 mph/6900 with the 24p with Kibbey riding shotgun, then Darren let me take my wife for a ride in his Talon 22/260, he insisted that I drive it, his wife wasn't too happy about it. G-train's son was trying to run me, but I already knew he was faster, and I'm not about to race someone else's boat. We made a smooth 80 mph pass, that Talon drives like it's on rails, but it doesn't feel the chop.
Real nice. Thanks again, Darren, wherever you are. (I don't know their last names, Darren and Dave are brothers, they both own Talons) :Confused: