another one of my whacked ideas

[Ratickle]

I've always liked those mini boats- only 12' is too short. I'd like to have something in the 16' range and about a 6 or 6.5 foot beam. Styled just like an Apache 41. Paint it just like Warpath.

Mine's 10'. Used to be a great little circuit on the west coast for them. They kind of replaced the Knee-Bangers for a while. A 10' with a 50 in 2's is a handful......

 

[Cash Bar]

Last I heard ASG was putting a badazz jet drive in his HotDog :sifone:

 

[45calibur]

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its not that crazy of an idea


i have a kawasaki jetski with that engine (well mine is an 07 so it is 250 hp)


i would like to see 2 of them motors on a 21 skater with surface drives , 500+ hp , it would be a fun ride



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[Offshoredrillin]

Last I heard ASG was putting a badazz jet drive in his HotDog :sifone:

see told ya it wasnt that far fetched...

 

[Bobcat]

I've always liked those mini boats- only 12' is too short. I'd like to have something in the 16' range and about a 6 or 6.5 foot beam. Styled just like an Apache 41. Paint it just like Warpath.

you would just take it apart and leave it at glassdave's shop:26:

 

[Chris]

True

 

[Tony]

Ive got a 16' stepped hull Express cat just sitting waiting for ideas like this. Anyone know a price on thos mini gas turbines that they put in go carts?

 

[Chris]

Those are aircraft APU turbines. I see them on Ebay from time to time.

 

[boostbros]

those apu or starter turbines are fun to play with but are 100 hp or less very loud ear piercing sound and veryvery thristy

 

[Chris]

They're also very fragile compared to a propulsion powerplant. You can get them upwards of 400 HP though. The one's on big jets are quite large. Gearboxes are a problem too, as well as the fact that you can't run them with the output shaft stalled.

You can also get some small turboprop engines with gearboxes in the 400 hp range.

Thirsty is an understatement. We had turbine gensets- the fuel truck would dump 600 gallons into them twice a day. And not those monsters either- little trailer-mounts.