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But it’s my new one and I’m in love!!!…can’t wait to get started on the new project…it’s gonna be a center steer drag boat
 

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I'm itchy just looking at the pics! LOL

And what is with the tomato cans? Every single glass shop I have ever been in has them!!!
 

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That's going to be bad ass
 

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People don’t realize how hard a properly done jet can leave the lights. Smoke anything off the line. It’s not how fast it goes; it’s how fast it gets there.

This will be bad ass to see come together. Looks like it was laid up at the Hemet facility?
Yes @ Joel’s shop Fiber Composites
 

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I dig the colors! Can’t wait to see it at the NJBA.
 

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Looks good so hear the name will be "blunders wonder".
 

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Cool!
I’ll be 60 YO next week and still love my jet bote and jet botes in general!
 

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They get them from restaurants by the pallet load, wash them out and use them to mix resin
There was a guy bitd that went around to the tooling shops selling those. Joes tooling bought a ton of them, don’t remember what they paid but I thought the guy selling them was a genius.
 

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More details on power please!
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Wish I had a better picture of it but it’s a 565, 18deg AFR heads…made 1080hp on motor, the heads need to go to Frankenstein to pick up another 70-80hp but that will come later…has a 500 shot on the fogger and 350 shot on the plate system…should move out alright :)
 

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Nice! I had a lot of fun building mine and the one's I did for others. I'm sure I'll end up doing another someday.

Who is rigging it? Have you weighed it or is that top secret since it's a race boat?
 

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Wish I had a better picture of it but it’s a 565, 18deg AFR heads…made 1080hp on motor, the heads need to go to Frankenstein to pick up another 70-80hp but that will come later…has a 500 shot on the fogger and 350 shot on the plate system…should move out alright :)

Very nice. Should haul azz for sure. 👍🏼👍🏼

Are those QFT carbs? How do you like em?
 

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Nice! I had a lot of fun building mine and the one's I did for others. I'm sure I'll end up doing another someday.

Who is rigging it? Have you weighed it or is that top secret since it's a race boat?
Andy Ralls will be building the hardware for it and I will be rigging it…don’t have a weight yet but I will post it once it’s weighed
 
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Just so it's not awkward for you to bring it up later, yes I will go ahead and be yore back up driver and yes I know what I'm doing
 

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Thank you, no it’s a Cheyenne, it is the predecessor to the TPR and a much better looking boat IMO

Congrats on the new build! Start a thread in the "from the mold" section.. We'd love to see it come together.

RD
 

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Just for reference here are 2 different TPR’s I’ve owned as well, I think the Cheyenne looks better
 

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I’ll do that
awesome!!

Glad to see those molds getting used again, I didn’t know Joel even had em?

Those molds are such a great canvas for guys like me, genuinely enjoyed shooting a couple years ago.
I like your simple approach on graphics.
Please, keep us updated on the build.
Pretty please, sugar on top and all that!👍
 

blue wonder

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awesome!!

Glad to see those molds getting used again, I didn’t know Joel even had em?

Those molds are such a great canvas for guys like me, genuinely enjoyed shooting a couple years ago.
I like your simple approach on graphics.
Please, keep us updated on the build.
Pretty please, sugar on top and all that!👍
I will for sure, Joel doesn’t own the molds, he’s just laying them up…Josh Patridge owns them, him and Chris (B1 Racing) owned them for awhile but he owns them outright now
 
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