Fastest 20' outboard stoker sst

**badluck** · 09-26-2017, 08:09 PM

Anyone know the fastest a 20' stoker sst has run? I remember hearing of a purple 1 running 109 a few years ago.

**Da Bull** · 09-26-2017, 08:22 PM

Back in the late 80`s when I was driving for Mirage in the stock Mod-VP class at Parker and Al was in the modified Mod-VP class. We had tested at an honest 107 with the Yamaha Excel and we drew a great pit/starting position (I think #7) so I got a good jump on everybody. Well somewhere down the river Al went by me at least 10mph faster. I wasn`t worried because he was in a different class but I thought to myself "HOLY CRAP that thing is flying". I hope this helps you in some way.

DB

**300x Stoker** · 09-26-2017, 08:50 PM

Badluck did you ever get that thing running good?

**badluck** · 09-26-2017, 09:31 PM

I put it on the back burner. I do have a 15" mid to put on it. Hopefully this winter. We use the wakeboard boat now that the kids are skiing and boarding a lot. I miss going fast but watching my 6 and 8 yr olds on a single ski makes up for it!

**badluck** · 09-26-2017, 09:58 PM

How is your boat running? Any changes?

**300x Stoker** · 09-26-2017, 10:02 PM

Running great. Best performance ski boat ever! Never tried to set any speed records. A buddy's 280 felt pretty weak compared to the 300X??

**badluck** · 09-26-2017, 10:20 PM

I feel like the 280 was the best stock motor for the boat. It handles far better, but I'm done with premixing and rebuilding.

**rude tim** · 09-27-2017, 12:35 AM

I am sure 109 is not the fastest 20 Stoker. The purple one you are talking about belonged to Ryan Manyon (spelling?) Mine ran 109 with a 28 and I was out of prop I know it had few more if I had a bigger wheel. I am sure there are others that will run faster. Mr. Stoker would know better.

**racer** · 09-27-2017, 03:35 PM

Da Bull has it pretty close on what we could run at Parker loaded with 70 Gallons of fuel. Several have run over a 100 at the new enduro with weight/height/engine restrictions, the one inch below the bottom is the tough restriction. A couple of sterndrive 20's have been well north of the outboard race boats.

**bigboy** · 09-27-2017, 03:49 PM

So Al whats the best speed you ever saw in both an outboard and sterndrive stoker sst20?

**robert cruse** · 09-28-2017, 11:57 PM

I bought a new Stoker from Al in 1985 - put a 2.4 efi on it - best speed was 89. So I installed a Land and Sea Turbo - lots of turbo lag, but once it spooled up - 112 mph.

**AZMIDLYF** · 09-29-2017, 12:44 AM

Whatever happened to the molds for these?

**conmax** · 09-30-2017, 04:07 PM

i had about a 1980 Baker 20' RST (same bottom as stoker) and same molds that i think stoker got from baker. deck was more rounded than the more angular stoker. it was a mod vp boat with single center seat and huge enduro gas tank. we did not have GPS then so speed numbers may be suspect. i had Al build up a 235 rude similar to his engines. i think that the best speed was right around 100 mph. this was a lite boat, about 500lbs. i think most of the mod vp boats had run at least 100 to be competitive. it seems unlikely that any pleasure version with stock power would hit 100. later, after i converted it to pleasure use, it ran 82 with a merc 225.

**racer** · 09-30-2017, 08:02 PM

Bottom on a Baker is not the same and we never got a mold from Baker, we did build 2 plugs that Baker used to build molds from that we never got paid for.

Molds are in storage.