Lets see those Outboard Hydroplanes!!

[LakeRacer99]

Awesome thread guys! There is something about a 300hp outboard on a 300# hydro and 100hp of N2O...Is there a quicker or faster outboard boat? I remember watching a wooden one splinter 1/2 track with an OMC V8 F1 motor on it, right in front of where I was standing. I don't recall the driver, maybe one of you guys know? It was Evansville, IL around 1990.

Here is one of my favs from back in the day...Tom Kunzeman RIP I have more of this boat, I have to find and scan them.

[LakeRacer99]

Here is a good looking one...I think I got the image from this site.

[LakeRacer99]

Another member at one time...

[LakeRacer99]

Ro Yale...

[LakeRacer99]

An all time fav of mine, I think this is Dick O' Dea...That is the correct attitude...

[LakeRacer99]

This belonged to a buddy of mine last year...I believe it was a Sun Valley

[warrior74z]

Do you know who that is in post 123? I know Larry Boyd used race number 222 when I raced him in 1984. He had a beautiful Ron Jones hull then...that red one looks like a pugh. Also notice the UO class, Unlimited Outboard...not a bracket racer.

[LakeRacer99]

Barron, I don't remember where I collected that photo from. I am pretty sure it is a pugh also. I am sure someone here knows though.

[Freddie Webb]

I think his name is Paul Wheeler, he runs at Augusta,Ga.

[1BadAction]

Sweet pics guys. Thanks for posting up.

Gary, it must feel like a buck 20 going 50 in one of those little things. like a go cart for the water badass.

[Instigator]

Gary, it must feel like a buck 20 going 50 in one of those little things. like a go cart for the water badass.

a buck twenty in a Mirage and it ain't even close

[warrior74z]

This belonged to a buddy of mine last year...I believe it was a Sun Valley

Jason, I just realized looking at the boat in your post, that it is the same hull that "The Sting" that I drove was, as well as Tom Kunzman's was, and that a capsule has been added. Are you saying Sun Valley is the builder? The Sting was made by the original manufacturer, I think, then Tom's and at least two others that were on the circuit around 1990 were built by someone else, (same mold) but I can't remember the name of any of them. Anyone out there with any knowledge of these hulls? Jon Wright do you remember what Merriotts boat and the other guy named John that raced with us around 1990, what their boats were?
Barron

[TD]

Hey Russ, same ole song & dance with me too on lower units...

I've gone through 9 XR-6's and trashed 1 200 case last year with a stock 260.

My best ET was 11.01 @ 93 with a whacked ECU and all 6 injectors flooding (Linda @ Brucato will vouch for that, lol) Next pass broke the mid section and the prop started chipping the transom...(Jim Brinkley and Bill Mason witnessed that) Next race took out the drive shaft spline on the launch. Next race blew a carrier. I finally made a launch with nitrous and the ECU took a crap and lost power at 400' and the rest of the season went like that, good start, loss of power, and finished at 64 - 72 mph, lol. I tried 3 analogue ECU's (all I had) and tried a Brucato ACU that Tony programmed for this 260 and it left harder, but fell of as well. After season was over, i borrowed Travis Tuttle's A-6 and MAN!!!! this boat launches like a pro mod. I ran outta prop at 700' and was turning 10,200 with a 24 yammi. I tried Bill Mason's 26 Hoss and torched #5 in 100', lol... with them watching.

Funny you mention your "X" and this boat, before Ron bought it, I looked at it in Oklahoma and called my "then" wife and she suggested leaving it in Oklahoma. The day I move her into an apartment, Ron put it up for sale.

We'll see this year...

Ronnie

Am I the only person to own that hull and still stay married!

I did get three good passesw with it here all over 130 and it was a blast. Wish I would have stayed together in NM cause there was an alky hydro that needed hurt. His best was like 125 I think. Good luck this year Ronnie.
TD

[Way2slow on H2O]

Hey Jason, who was your buddy that owned the capsule Sun Valley?

Barron, Larry Boyd built about 12 (best he can remember, lol) of the Sun Valley Hydros. That white one looks like 1 that crashed in the 90's when the skeg broke.

Dave Seldecki (Krazy Boat) in Illinios has Larry's old boat.

Ronnie

[Way2slow on H2O]

Barron, i tried a speedmaster and it didn't have the holeshot that the bigger case has.

Although the boat is fully capable of running big #'s on the top end, I would rather give the big blocks a blast out of the gate and make them wonder how they just got beat by a 153 cu in V-6 OUTBOARD!!!

Most of the hydros I've seen ride low to the water and in my opinion, causing too much friction. Your boat rode high, and probably if i was to guess, had tremendous mid range pull and would keep pulling way past the 1320'.

What depth sponsons did your boat have?

I just finished cutting my transom down 5" and in my opinion, will not notice any difference in center of gravity from the motor torque as compared to a v-bottom boat. I forseen a few advantages for the shorter mid:
a: less hassel with the rope catching the cowl
b: less stress on the driveshaft (bent 4 shafts from torque)
c: less wind drag (should pick up .0001 second)
d: doesnt look like a volkswagon on the back of the boat

Ronnie