Let's talk SVL's!!! 2010 is coming fast!

[Dunbar 104]

Just who are you guys trying to kid?? There is SVL TV this season, I know one of the producers and he sent me this unedited behind the scenes footage of you guys heading for Florida today...

If we see a pile of dirt in a small town!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRX4m...ext=1&index=29

[phragle]

[THREAD HIJACK *ON*]

I won't have a tape measure in SIB, but I will be helping with the safety inspections. I would appreciate if someone could point me to the afore mentioned team with the free food and schwag, t-shirts etc.

Thank you.
Carry on.

[THREAD HIJACK *OFF*]

[TYPHOON]

Please,please, please find anywhere where I asked Mike or Steve to resign. Again more bad info!!!!!!
Why is it a conflict if I am on the OSS board. I have nothing to do with Georges case.
Why is it when I wasnt on the board you slammed me for not doing my part and just racing and now I am trying to help on the board and you think I should resign. Which is it I should do? And of course with honor.

[Dunbar 104]

[THREAD HIJACK *ON*]

I won't have a tape measure in SIB, but I will be helping with the safety inspections. I would appreciate if someone could point me to the afore mentioned team with the free food and schwag, t-shirts etc.

Thank you.
Carry on.

[THREAD HIJACK *OFF*]

Mix in a little Miami Vice when were getting close just for Stinson

Maybe so cold malt beverage, rarely food. If we pass safety maybe a T-shirt

[Mike A.]

Please,please, please find anywhere where I asked Mike or Steve to resign. Again more bad info!!!!!!
Why is it a conflict if I am on the OSS board. I have nothing to do with Georges case.
Why is it when I wasnt on the board you slammed me for not doing my part and just racing and now I am trying to help on the board and you think I should resign. Which is it I should do? And of course with honor.

Would you please just quit your whining. Good grief.

[Steve Miklos]

Please,please, please find anywhere where I asked Mike or Steve to resign. Again more bad info!!!!!!
Why is it a conflict if I am on the OSS board. I have nothing to do with Georges case.
Why is it when I wasnt on the board you slammed me for not doing my part and just racing and now I am trying to help on the board and you think I should resign. Which is it I should do? And of course with honor.

Randy

Again you miss the point, If you have a stake in the outcome you leave the room, not resign! This is common at BOD meetings.

Before you said the boat is not chopped and channeled and you were mislead.
I take exception to that.
The pictures clearly show it was chopped.
Do you agree?
The boat has a 8' 6" beam if it is narrower it was channeled. Do you agree?
Steve

[DAREDEVIL]

Randy

Again you miss the point, If you have a stake in the outcome you leave the room, not resign! This is common at BOD meetings.

Before you said the boat is not chopped and channeled and you were mislead.
I take exception to that.
The pictures clearly show it was chopped.
Do you agree?
The boat has a 8' 6" beam if it is narrower it was channeled. Do you agree?
Steve

I know this question is not for me , but

If u chop a boat u lose beam,,,just a fact ..so even if chopped and not 8.6 it does not need to be channeled !! Oh,,,but i am stupid..sorry

[DAREDEVIL]

Could u all just give this hole thing a rest ???

Its getting childish for business people like u to keep on bashing down your own class...LOL

I mean..what ever just funny.....

[Diver & Driver]

I would take old race boats ( all models) , sink them in Key West, develop an underwater boat cemetery, that will be a great dive site,,
http://www.opacity.us/site55_staten_..._graveyard.htm,
Especially for those living in the past.
Maybe some drivers will invest into new boats, and we can create a great dive site.

[DAREDEVIL]

I would take all the old phantom SLV boats , sink them in Key West, develop an underwater phantom cemetery, that will be a great dive site,,.

This is what they all can do , including the Extreme's after they ruined this class with this thread ...hahahaha

[Adrenaline]

In Cumberland I did receive clarification from Mike T that it is in fact acceptable to wear a thong in the hot pits. So we are good to go Randy! Blahaha

[Ratickle]

In Cumberland I did receive clarification from Mike T that it is in fact acceptable to wear a thong in the hot pits. So we are good to go Randy! Blahaha

Randy in a thong in Miami...


Hope my hotel room doesn't overlook the pits.....

[Racerguymiami]

As a manufacturer, this thread has certainly opened my eyes. The possibility of this new SVL making it through production is diminishing ever so fast. I've made a few requests for a rule book on the class and have had no response. So again, I will ask. Where, how and when can I get a set of rules relating to SVL as they are written today? Also how will any and all involved with SVL be kept abreast of any changes to the rules in the future.

Concerning the Fountain, they are not idiots. The race boat clearly has less freeboard if that 33' in fact was the mold to build the race boat. Who is going to protest? Veteran racers in the class have clearly admitted changing their own boats 'as designed' configurations. I'm sure these changes took place long before the knowledge of a new Fountain coming on the scene. Looks to me that the purpose of the changes were to outrun your competitor running the same hull in a spec class. In the racing world this is better known as cheating.

New boats to any class have always dominated. Throughout my racing years when this would happen a proposal to make changes to an older hull or engine were sent in by the racers for review. Not until a decision to 'allow changes' was made on that review, were you to modify anything.

I do need the info on the rules for this year and the intentions of the class for next year in order to move forward with the SVL.

[Mike A.]

In Cumberland I did receive clarification from Mike T that it is in fact acceptable to wear a thong in the hot pits. So we are good to go Randy! Blahaha

[DAREDEVIL]

TO get back to the picture..i think its a 35 shown next to the svl..not a 33 ?!

Here is a 33 and i think the hight in the back and side is pretty damn close if u ask me ?!

[MANITIE]

As a manufacturer, this thread has certainly opened my eyes. The possibility of this new SVL making it through production is diminishing ever so fast. I've made a few requests for a rule book on the class and have had no response. So again, I will ask. Where, how and when can I get a set of rules relating to SVL as they are written today? Also how will any and all involved with SVL be kept abreast of any changes to the rules in the future.

Concerning the Fountain, they are not idiots. The race boat clearly has less freeboard if that 33' in fact was the mold to build the race boat. Who is going to protest? Veteran racers in the class have clearly admitted changing their own boats 'as designed' configurations. I'm sure these changes took place long before the knowledge of a new Fountain coming on the scene. Looks to me that the purpose of the changes were to outrun your competitor running the same hull in a spec class. In the racing world this is better known as cheating.

New boats to any class have always dominated. Throughout my racing years when this would happen a proposal to make changes to an older hull or engine were sent in by the racers for review. Not until a decision to 'allow changes' was made on that review, were you to modify anything.

I do need the info on the rules for this year and the intentions of the class for next year in order to move forward with the SVL.

I agree 100%.....

[Brain Damage]

I would take all the old phantom SLV boats , sink them in Key West, develop an underwater phantom cemetery, that will be a great dive site,,
http://www.opacity.us/site55_staten_..._graveyard.htm,
Especially for those living in the past.

Maybe some drivers will invest into new boats that are more attractive to spectators and the media,and at the same time we can create a great dive site, for those drivers that want to spend time measuring everyone hulls for the next decade.

=======================
Great idea,,,,,,

[Steve Miklos]

TO get back to the picture..i think its a 35 shown next to the svl..not a 33 ?!

Here is a 33 and i think the hight in the back and side is pretty damn close if u ask me ?!

That's a single step boat.
Steve

[Wahoo 214]

Unless you make SVL a Vintage Racing class, there is nothing that can be done to keep any new hull out because of all the unapproved modifications done to the past fleet. Sounds to me new rules need to be written ASAP and enforced or because of the success of the class it will be destroyed by Fountains, Outerlimits, Buzzi and Ocke's. However, if SVL does go to P1 hp/lbs rules it will be over anyway because the hull should not be a factor.

[MANITIE]

Dean...I agree....thats were this is getting confusing to me...
I hear it will be a power to weight ratio class 30 feet and under a lid...
with no hull modifacations...but boats already have been make modifications...
then I hear it will be 525 and Vortec..
To me...the question is...
Is this going to be a power to weight ratio class..or a spec class with the choise of the 525 or Vortec...no mods to the hull....