Waterthunder
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I was at one of our block parties last night in my neighborhood. For those of you that don’t know everyone in my neighborhood has two airboats in their yard. There is no where else I would rather live and pretty much everyone here has built their own airboat. Our hood is about 50/50 when it comes to car motor and a/c motor boats. Well at all these gatherings it comes down to me Jay and Quick Diesel and sometimes, Matthew, Scott and a few others arguing the old car motor vs A/C motor. Funny it always ends the same. Were all good friends and know the other guy’s knows what the hell he is doing. Jay and Joey have always had very fast boats and sometimes the fastest. We are always battling back and forth but at the same time will help each other out in a second.
So once again the take of the gearbox and run me comment came up. I said I only have a 360 cubic inch motor and you have a 540 cubic inch motor I guess they didn’t think that was a valid point! So I finally said if I build a 350HP DD car motor and stomp your O-540 what else will you have left to whine about! After a long pause they said that will never happen. So I said let’s make a bet Jay bounced back OK how about $1,000, I said do you really wanna do that he said your right how about a 12 pack. And it hit me these guy’s are fast and have flown a boat. I have seen Jay test and try three different bottoms on a boat in three day’s. So I suggested if I win they must place a large sticker on their rudders that say’s aircraft motors suck and if they win I must place a sticker on my rudders that say’s car motors suck! Right then everyone around this very heated debate started going nut’s. We are all gonna have fun with this. P.S. I told Jay to write the rules he would prefer and submit them to me both boats will have to be considered ride boats with two seats! This will take a while because we are all tight money wise but it’s gonna be one hell of a fun build up.
I was at one of our block parties last night in my neighborhood. For those of you that don’t know everyone in my neighborhood has two airboats in their yard. There is no where else I would rather live and pretty much everyone here has built their own airboat. Our hood is about 50/50 when it comes to car motor and a/c motor boats. Well at all these gatherings it comes down to me Jay and Quick Diesel and sometimes, Matthew, Scott and a few others arguing the old car motor vs A/C motor. Funny it always ends the same. Were all good friends and know the other guy’s knows what the hell he is doing. Jay and Joey have always had very fast boats and sometimes the fastest. We are always battling back and forth but at the same time will help each other out in a second.
So once again the take of the gearbox and run me comment came up. I said I only have a 360 cubic inch motor and you have a 540 cubic inch motor I guess they didn’t think that was a valid point! So I finally said if I build a 350HP DD car motor and stomp your O-540 what else will you have left to whine about! After a long pause they said that will never happen. So I said let’s make a bet Jay bounced back OK how about $1,000, I said do you really wanna do that he said your right how about a 12 pack. And it hit me these guy’s are fast and have flown a boat. I have seen Jay test and try three different bottoms on a boat in three day’s. So I suggested if I win they must place a large sticker on their rudders that say’s aircraft motors suck and if they win I must place a sticker on my rudders that say’s car motors suck! Right then everyone around this very heated debate started going nut’s. We are all gonna have fun with this. P.S. I told Jay to write the rules he would prefer and submit them to me both boats will have to be considered ride boats with two seats! This will take a while because we are all tight money wise but it’s gonna be one hell of a fun build up.
