Allison Boats

[JBS]

I tried a 28 clever on mine and it was ok .The Hoss and the Merc chopper did better for my application.

[LakeFever]

Anyone have pics of the allison pad? Especially this lip thing?

[Forkin' Crazy]

Anyone have pics of the allison pad? Especially this lip thing?

I don't have any. They are easier to feel than to see in pictures. I used a 6' straight edge washers taped to the bottom and a feeler gauge when setting mine up. Like said, mine was .090 in the center and .020 on the sides. The Allison pad has a slight V to it. That is why it is harder to drive I guess. I ended up with .020 all the way across. Kind of hard to get a picture of that.

[Forkin' Crazy]

Oh and I spent all afternoon on it. I would sand some off, run it, come back (there was a shade tree on one side of the ramp) and sand a bit, and go run it again. When it started to drop of speed, I gave the jackplate another click. And then go back and set up and sand some more. One more click on the jackplate. And I was using 100 grit and never cleaned that up. I figured the rough gel would break up the water. It turned an unruly beast in to a puppy dog!

[David]

It's not easy to take a bottom picture under the trailer. The lip is sort of like a spoiler in the trunk of a car. It's just a small radius at the back. The lip on mine will remain stock, but I am not chasing big numbers anymore.

The Wave to Wave link is worth a read.

10 Questions With Darris Allison — Wave To Wave

"I decided to build a lower profile faster boat. I came out with the XR 2002 as a lower profile more streamline boat. That’s the boat that set the outboard speed record at 129 MPH, in the 1980s. With a 2.4 Mercury, carburetor engine, it ran a 134 MPH in one pass, but the two way average was 129 MPH. Moving ahead of that, I decided to build a boat more similar to the GT 20. We were building pleasure boats. The bigger version was the Grand Sport. The XR 2002 was smaller. The Super Sport was similar, maybe not as fast as the XR 2002, but is faster than the Grand Sport. The XR 2003, the XB 2003 and the Grand Sport all have the same bottom, not the same mold but the same running surface. They have a 10.5 inch pad, and different setbacks. With the Super Sport we made it with a deeper V and a narrower pad. It would accelerate quicker, it had more frontal area than the XR 2002, so it wouldn't run the same speeds.
The Super Sport has a 22 degree deadrise. Most of our current bass boats have a 23 degree deadrise at the each side of the pad; it progresses to the front. "

[scott reierson]

Allistan,

I left my pencil roll stock on my SS 2000.

I spoke to many on the pencil roll thing. I also spoke to Darris for the final say so. I decided to work with the hull the way he and his team designed it.

As mentioned above, My SS 2000's cockpit was very hot. It was also noisy running in my lakes chop. Boat was very good quality and built very well.

Was the only new boat I had that actually came with a factory wiring schematic tag on the boat wiring harness with correct BIA color schedule. I very much appreciated that.

Mercury High Performance ET's, Cleavers and Yamaha Drags have always worked well for me and have been durable. I've lost many "heavily worked" props in extreme high performance applications.

[mikesufka]

I’d love to have a beer with Darris - just a legend. Reggie Fountain & Peter Hledin would complete the table

MDS

[David]

I waxed the bottom of my SS2000. Rather then sitting with a beer, I’d like to lie under the boat with Mr Allison and have him explain the purpose of all the features.

[BarryStrawn]

Study the attached pdf for his patent on the OG XR-2002. Isn't quite the same as having an in person explanation but that isn't going to happen anyway.

[rock]

Wow that was quite the read.

Rock

[David]

The patent did answer some of my questions, thanks.

[hellbents-10]

I waxed the bottom of my SS2000. Rather then sitting with a beer, I’d like to lie under the boat with Mr Allison and have him explain the purpose of all the features.

I did not think wax was a good thing on the bottom, too smooth? I wax mine but do not touch the pad, area around the pad or the notch.

[Muskoka2]

I did not think wax was a good thing on the bottom, too smooth? I wax mine but do not touch the pad, area around the pad or the notch.

I'm not sure wax stays on over 80/100 m.p.h.?

[Forkin' Crazy]

Until you run one with a cut pencil roll, you do not know. Those that know, know, and those that do not know, do NOT know. LOL!!!

Take your stock SS at 95 mph and drop the go pedal and get back with me. I bet you will end up pointing the opposite direction. But I do not know WTF I am talking about. I only have 4 Allisons.. So I am a big dummy.

I am throwing pearls to swine at this point. Y'all have fun!

[Forkin' Crazy]

I waxed the bottom of my SS2000. Rather then sitting with a beer, I’d like to lie under the boat with Mr Allison and have him explain the purpose of all the features.

If you could not figure it out for yourself, you are dumber than you think.