Water Strider

[speedboats]

Waterstrider out on its first real run. Owner wants to swap his engine out for a carbed LS2 (LS364), his own motor isn't making the torque to spin up the larger impellors to take advantage of the high hp. The LS364 already comes with the LS6 heads, so perhaps a mild cam change will see about 475hp on pump gas. Was thinking about an LS7, but the cost is still a little prohibitive

[speedboats]

After the engine blew an oil seal (stuck oil pump relief valve pushed the pressure past 95psi) the engine was pulled out and down, discovered they had used a different odd-ball cam so the engine was making no-where near the power we were quoted (from 598hp down to around 415hp).

Now the owner has decided that he wants to use one of the new LS364's offered as a crate engine by GMPP. This is basically an LS2 with what looks to be an airgap manifold and carb, and LS6 heads. 10.9:1 compression to run on pump gas. 446hp and 412lbft this engine makes way better torque figures than the previous engine, so it will definately turn a coarser blade to a better RPM (around 5800rpm)