Morning wood / blown hydro on the strip

[ONE-A-DAY]

Saw this on Fagbook, my god this guys has some UGE balls. Torque is crazy.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=516276182965941

 

[Bite the Bullet]

Saw this on Fagbook, my god this guys has some UGE balls. Torque is crazy.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=516276182965941

Long time drag boat racer, Jim Walders, used to bring his blown injected Cole to Buckskin along with his family boat. The Cole was a legit 130 to 140 mph boat. Watching him make a pass was poetry in motion!!!

 

[bocco]

Drivers boat for sure.

 

[Sharp Shooter]

Pretty cool!

I've seen many dudes in 200 mph boats running the river.

Mel Kirby at Big river 1998

Mike Peasley Big River 99.

Darryn Kepner. Not sure how fast this boat was, but certainly 150+

Mark Reese Needles. Not sure how fast.

 

[HubbaHubbaLife]

Relaxing day on the water

 

[Xtrmwakeboarder]

Is that a parachute on the jacket?….. f’ing wild

 

[warpt71]

I wonder how many times he's stabbed it with the rudder still turned? Nice recovery!

 

[LOBOATOMY]

@spectra3279
What a clown

 

[boatnam2]

Hold this for a second while i grab a handfull! I could watch that all day.

 

[Bite the Bullet]

Pretty cool!

I've seen many dudes in 200 mph boats running the river.

Mel Kirby at Big river 1998

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Mike Peasley Big River 99.

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Darryn Kepner. Not sure how fast this boat was, but certainly 150+

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Mark Reese Needles. Not sure how fast.



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The fastest timed pass on the river is probably still Eddie Hill with his fuel hydro at 180ish. Sunshine Marina, in Bullhead City, sponsored a drag boat race in the mid 80s and Eddie was on hand for an exhibition run. Water conditions were far from ideal when he made his pass.

 

[Riverbottom]

The fastest timed pass on the river is probably still Eddie Hill with his fuel hydro at 180ish. Sunshine Marina, in Bullhead City, sponsored a drag boat race in the mid 80s and Eddie was on hand for an exhibition run. Water conditions were far from ideal when he made his pass.

I think that is about the same as the outboard hydro kilo record at Parker Az. I think it is 176 m.p.h.

 

[4Waters]

The fastest timed pass on the river is probably still Eddie Hill with his fuel hydro at 180ish. Sunshine Marina, in Bullhead City, sponsored a drag boat race in the mid 80s and Eddie was on hand for an exhibition run. Water conditions were far from ideal when he made his pass.

Well Eddie has huge balls, so there's that. I've always liked Eddie down to earth and always has time for his fans.

 

[Sharp Shooter]

The fastest timed pass on the river is probably still Eddie Hill with his fuel hydro at 180ish. Sunshine Marina, in Bullhead City, sponsored a drag boat race in the mid 80s and Eddie was on hand for an exhibition run. Water conditions were far from ideal when he made his pass.

They've been much faster than that - on the river in Parker.

 

[185EZ]

 

[napanutt]

They've been much faster than that - on the river in Parker.

I watched this 3 times before I commented.

That was bad ass!!!

 

[Bite the Bullet]

They've been much faster than that - on the river in Parker.

I haven't followed drag boats for about 20 years so that pass was jaw dropping, to say the least! Talk about perfect conditions!

 

[Willie B]

…Saw Eddie Hill make one of his jaw dropping runs at Perris…I think???…cant remember the speed but it was over the existing record at the time…This was right around 1980i???…
…The races were over …it was almost dark and out of nowhere…the unmistakeable roar of a fuel burning Hemi…The run was on…
…I was standing a little past the finish line…
… It happened so quick the few people still there…didn’t know how to react… The announcer who had been quiet for quite a while announced the speed and ET and then said how much over the existing record it was… …Wish I could remember the particulars???…
…one of those memorable moments…

 

[Riverryder]

I love stayin at needles marina. Just about every morning you get woken up by a little boat with a big motor. Coffee and listening to the morning runs is my favorite.

 

[Ty N]

I love stayin at needles marina. Just about every morning you get woken up by a little boat with a big motor. Coffee and listening to the morning runs is my favorite.

The truly only way to be WOKE!!!

 

[FreeBird236]

They've been much faster than that - on the river in Parker.

I was there, you could tell it was special before they even announced the speed. I think the water was still falling at the start when he hit the finish.

 

[Sharp Shooter]

I love stayin at needles marina. Just about every morning you get woken up by a little boat with a big motor. Coffee and listening to the morning runs is my favorite.

Those normal size boats. Everything else is huge.

 

[pixrthis]

I like that Kirby put a passenger seat in his legit BAH and ran it at the river. Badass for sure

 

[BigRedBryan]

Hmmm, that's sitting in my garage currently...

 

[Bite the Bullet]

Hmmm, that's sitting in my garage currently... View attachment 1082656

Nice!! Are you going racing this year?

 

[BigRedBryan]

It's my buddies boat, yeah we'll be out there this season.

 

[stoker2001]

I think that is about the same as the outboard hydro kilo record at Parker Az. I think it is 176 m.p.h.

that 176 was average between two runs..one direction was recorded at 181+!Not bad for a whacker..LOL

 

[Riverbottom]

that 176 was average between two runs..one direction was recorded at 181+!Not bad for a whacker..LOL

Yes it was. Most people here don't understand a Kilo record. I was on the beach watching and it was impressive.

 

[brgrcru]

just fucking bad ass.........................

 

[obnoxious001]

What makes it a little more impressive is that he had not been on the water here before. I talked to him a bit before he decided to go out and run. He was concerned about it being wide enough to turn the boat around, as well as any other pleasure boats and wakes.

Whatever speed they caught him at was almost certainly not accurate, the radar gun was up on the roof so the angle is bad. I handled the radar up there last year.

 

[caribbean20]

Bad ass for sure. Do miss those fuel boats at Firebird.

 

[Bite the Bullet]

that 176 was average between two runs..one direction was recorded at 181+!Not bad for a whacker..LOL

Very impressive!!! How big of a boat are we talking about? How many engines?

 

[Sharp Shooter]

Very impressive!!! How big of a boat are we talking about? How many engines?

Search on youtube:

Evinrude V8 is the world's fastest outboard EVER- 176.556mph average​

It wouldn't link here.

 

[stoker2001]

Very impressive!!! How big of a boat are we talking about? How many engines?

it was 20 foot Hydro with single engine 4.0 V8 OMC two stroke methanol with nitrous.there goal was to hit 200mph,but had few mishaps along way hitting a mudhen and other probs.Second Effort out of Florida was behind this.what is crazy is record still stands today for fastest outboard after three decades

 

[Sharp Shooter]

it was 20 foot Hydro with single engine 4.0 V8 OMC two stroke methanol with nitrous.there goal was to hit 200mph,but had few mishaps along way hitting a mudhen and other probs.Second Effort out of Florida was behind this.what is crazy is record still stands today for fastest outboard after three decades

And then they went fishing.

 

[stoker2001]

And then they went fishing.

thats what we do when the Vdrives are afraid to come out and play..LOL.I am gonna have to get UT over here on this thread

 

[Bite the Bullet]

Search on youtube:

Evinrude V8 is the world's fastest outboard EVER- 176.556mph average​

It wouldn't link here.

Very interesting video! I wonder how many props were tried until they found "the one"?

 

[cofooter]

I thought I read somewhere that the boat drags were coming back to Parker next year. At La Paz like the other races have been since BLue Water kicked them out. Looking forward to it!!

 

[BigRedBryan]

I thought I read somewhere that the boat drags were coming back to Parker next year. At La Paz like the other races have been since BLue Water kicked them out. Looking forward to it!!

They are.

 

[cofooter]

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They are.

At Blue Water, wow!