On Aug 18, 1:08*pm, (Richard Casady)
wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:09:58 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Aug 18, 8:36*am, (Richard Casady)
wrote:
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:28:12 -0400, hk wrote:
Don White wrote:
"P" wrote in message
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The best advice: it's a 10-year-old jetboat. Walk away from it as fast
as possible. It's worthless.

Of course. I plan to hang on to my fifty year old jetboat. A
turbocraft with a Buick engine.

Casady

Your go fast jetboat has about as much in common with this sea dodo as
my runabout does.

*You flatter it with go fast. 35 or so. It started with a Graymarine
flathead inline six and turned 3300 RPM. We marinized a Buick V-6 and
got 3700 RPM. Early jet drives were inefficient. A slow 16 ft
runabout. Fast enough for a five by four lake [Spirit Lake in Iowa].
Pulls waterskiers just fine. Ours is SN#10. A 58 I think. Three like
it were the first boats to go up a long stretch of the Colorado River.

Casady

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If you're only able to 3,700 rpm then you have to little engine on too
big a jet drive. Why don't you try a small block.