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    This is what an Opti should do.


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    Quote Originally Posted by timking57 View Post
    looks like RJ and your from just down the road.
    Maybe we met I was there ( Port Neches) a few years back when RJ was in a 45.

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    Was that the year he blow over and then passed all but 1 boat?

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    Quote Originally Posted by timking57 View Post
    Was that the year he blow over and then passed all but 1 boat?
    no, year before i think.

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    what is it specifically about the opti that makes it out perform the choked down version of a race engine that everyone else is running?

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    We got ahold of a short block that had never been ran yet. We rebuilt our pump new reeds and rings.. New reeds in the engine, had the injectors done. In other words the more new and ordinal the faster. We have been working with our prop guy for over a year. We don't run the same props as the carb motors run. We have got some 5 blades that we haven't even raced yet. As it is they are trying to slow us down. The 1st thing they did was jacked our weight up 50 pounds. They have our motor right now. Seems you don't get reworded for the time and effort you put in. They can do what to the boat and engine. They can't take away his driving. So there is no big secrets. The engine is just doing what it was made to do.

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    ...and its obvious, he "does" know how to drive......

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    There is no lack of guys on that tour that know how to drive one damn well, yet he is running away from them all. 25+ more HP than the carb motors doesn't hurt that I'm sure.

    Quote Originally Posted by FUJIMO View Post
    ...and its obvious, he "does" know how to drive......

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    Am I to understand he was the only one running that motor - 200 xs.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kellytheaker View Post
    Am I to understand he was the only one running that motor - 200 xs.
    Oh yes - friend of mine (the after-sales manager of the local Mercury importer) has one of those, racing in our kind of Mod VP.
    He smokes the big OMC V6s. Motor came std with short shaft and Sportmaster.

    Wolfgang (South Africa)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Noah Burns View Post
    what is it specifically about the opti that makes it out perform the choked down version of a race engine that everyone else is running?
    My guess would be torque. I ran one for years on my Allison and had many ask what was really under the cowl.

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