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    Quote Originally Posted by Velocity Kid View Post
    You didn't blow the Alpha up with the Nitrous??
    I've seen Nitrous pull the threads out of the outdrive bellhousing. The GPS would read 68,69,70 push button, 79, 80, 81 on a 22 BB alpha
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    Quote Originally Posted by MOBILEMERCMAN View Post
    ..."The GPS would read 68,69,70 push button, 79, 80, 81..."
    <laughing> You've been there!
    Almost exactly how mine ran.
    To answer Velocity Kid, Actually, the engine let go before the drive did.
    A saying all engine builders know well, LEAN IS MEAN but not for long!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Gordo View Post
    LEAN IS MEAN but not for long!
    Yea, like 4 or 5 seconds maybe
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    Too lean, too long......too bad!

    has been my personal favorite.
    Boat-less...
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    Yea nitorus is a fickle thing on a boat but not imposible to run
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    Quote Originally Posted by Velocity Kid View Post
    Yea nitorus is a fickle thing on a boat but not imposible to run
    I have seen it work well. Problem is its just a teaser.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MOBILEMERCMAN View Post
    I have seen it work well. Problem is its just a teaser.
    But sometimes, that is all you need to get the edge!!! Good for radar runs too!!!

    Some people are really good at hiding it too!!!!
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    Super V CGS Ferocious
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    A hidden Nitrous system? now thats cool
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    Quote Originally Posted by DKerns View Post
    But sometimes, that is all you need to get the edge!!! Good for radar runs too!!!

    Some people are really good at hiding it too!!!!
    There is no hiding the lunge as you hit the button
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    Ozarks Shootout years ago
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    Tailwalking is fun. not very fast though
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    There is a certain spot on the course that is right in front of a cove, that always has a "hole" that is well known by anyone who has ever ran the Shootout. It is just before the radar guns, where you are at top speed and trimmed to that "inth" degree. then you hit the hole. No coincidence that the local photographer is always set in the same spot every year.
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    After 4 years of testing and beating on the orginal shorten Alpha with little over 640 hp, and a few hard nitrous passes, and lending it to differnt people so they could try it. I final had a upper gear failure. A part of the gear tooth broke off and took ever thing else out. Over the winter I came up with some new stuff for the upper and lower that should increase strength by 25%. Im going to up the HP this year to over 700 hp to see if it will handle it. Should be interesting.
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    ours in better days...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bodyshot1 View Post
    ours in better days...
    When is that thing going to be back together??
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    Here are some pics of my old 22. It was known as the Joker back in the day. Mobilemercman would have a lot of info on this boat. He was the guy who rigged it. The boat lives in the Bahamas and was for sale on OSO but have not seen it for a while. This boat was awesome and took everything I put in thru and then some.
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    I would love to have it. That will always be on my funnest boat list. If I could get a hold of it now I would put Lathams power steering in it.

    When it was new in the late 80's 80mph was fast. That little boat surprised many people as it went past them in the bay.


    Ohhhhhh, the good old days.



    I could tell stories for hours about that boat..... Relax...
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    And I have wanted to hear those stories. In Lake Cumberland you will have to tell me a few.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mikey View Post
    Mobilemercman would have a lot of info on this boat. He was the guy who rigged it.

    I glassed bulkheads in, foamed and glassed the 80 fuel tank in and rigged it so I could not break it.

    Thanks Mikey
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