C mod class

[Sonny]

Oh my goodness Dave Curtis is a great guy.. I have the sister boat to his. It came off of the jigs right before or right after his but it is identical. We love it. I am focused in on the "B" mod right now so I found a driver for the "C" mod. Mainly because I cant stand to see it sit and on the beach..OOOHHH yeah... I cant forget to mention there is only a slight difference between the "C" mod and "B" mod speeds, c mod props often times work on the b mod stuff as well.. The Y80 offers pyramid reeds and no need for filler blocks in the exhaust, just bolt the plate on and go. and Y80's are cheap. just some food for thought..one boat two classes. This is how it starts..lol

[pro350hydro]

Also need to add that we are at an altitude of 2500 feet so I figure that will affect our speed also. I think a lot of our races are fairly high.

From memory

Elk River is around 2,800ft, Moses Lake is around 1,000ft, Newport, Ione and Waitts Lake are all right at 2,000ft

[blueskyracer]

From memory

Elk River is around 2,800ft, Moses Lake is around 1,000ft, Newport, Ione and Waitts Lake are all right at 2,000ft

Little different than good old Seattle with an altitude of 0000

[blueskyracer]

The laydown takes a pair of plums to drive.. because you are laying up towards the front of that boat you have to rifle it in to the corner as hot as you can... if you crack the throttle going in you drop the sponsons and drag the boat through the corner. It is supposed to be a safer ride because of the lower center of gravity rumor has it that you will flat spin the boat easier than you can blow it over. One thing is for certain... it will turn like nothing else out there. Welcome to the mod classes, You have done a beautiful job on you equipment. I hope you can make it to the east coast for a few races.

Big plums!! Thats probably why I was told not to let off the throttle in the corners just move the pipe only. I guess one thing at a time.

[Mrs blueskyracer]

Funny how "junk" always seems to enter into boat racing discussions!

[Sonny]

Try a few different things with the pipe. I used to drop the pipe going into the corner and then pull it coming out and I was doing myself an injustice. What works best for us is we shove the boat into the corner as fast as we can entering the corner and drop the pipe about half way through at the apex of the turn, or when you can hear the motor grunting. Coming out of the turn don't just snap the pipe forward, spool it up to full rpms and feed it the pipe, You'll hear the motor change pitch. With a good prop (wheel) you will probably be about 1/3 of the way down the straightaway before you start feeding the pipe to the motor. I'm not trying to come off like a know it all or anything like that, I'm just trying to save you the aggravation of making the mistakes that I made. Give it a try, Hopefully it works as well for you as it does for us.

[Dave M]

Well

Funny how "junk" always seems to enter into boat racing discussions!

Hopefully he has a "cut out" so you can enjoy his junk in the future !

[blueskyracer]

Hopefully he has a "cut out" so you can enjoy his junk in the future !

I am taking extra foam and all the wood working tools to make any adjustments. Just incase you know.

Dave is the one that started this a couple months on a thread about setting up a laydown.

Now all we have to do to embarrass the daughter is mention "Junk"

[BlueskyRacerGirl]

Come on dad enough about the junk!
I told you before you and mom don't do that the stork brought me and Nick.....

[Dave M]

Good Call

I am taking extra foam and all the wood working tools to make any adjustments. Just incase you know.

Dave is the one that started this a couple months on a thread about setting up a laydown.

Now all we have to do to embarrass the daughter is mention "Junk"

All the way around !

[blueskyracer]

Never had to do a last minute thrashing to get a motor fixed just before our first race. I am almost positive I found the problem. Filler block gasket is not sealing so cooling water is going into the exhaust and out the stock exhaust exit by the prop. Probably keeping the pipe from working right also. Leak is in the lower right hand corner.

Hope I can get it sealed by Thursday or I will have to wait two more weeks to run.

We did come up with a boat name or one of us did. The "MONEY PIT"

[Phantom13]

The wife is already giving me S*** about this class. Never had to do a last minute thrashing to get a motor fixed just before our first race. I am almost positive I found the problem. Filler block gasket is not sealing so cooling water is going into the exhaust and out the stock exhaust exit by the prop. Probably keeping the pipe from working right also. Leak is in the lower right hand corner.

Hope I can get it sealed by Thursday or I will have to wait two more weeks to run.

We did come up with a boat name or one of us did. The "MONEY PIT"

Welcome to MOD... you obviously have not payed enough attention of all our headaches. LOL

[blueskyracer]

Welcome to MOD... you obviously have not payed enough attention of all our headaches. LOL

Now we can all sit on the beach together

[JBM]

water leak

Never had to do a last minute thrashing to get a motor fixed just before our first race. I am almost positive I found the problem. Filler block gasket is not sealing so cooling water is going into the exhaust and out the stock exhaust exit by the prop. Probably keeping the pipe from working right also. Leak is in the lower right hand corner.

Hope I can get it sealed by Thursday or I will have to wait two more weeks to run.

We did come up with a boat name or one of us did. The "MONEY PIT"

Mike, Maybe you have the filler block fit too tight? It could be expanding and pushing on the cover...
The Yamato is the most reliable mod I have ever run. Its almost like running a stock Yamato and more reliable than a stock Merc...

[blueskyracer]

Mike, Maybe you have the filler block fit too tight? It could be expanding and pushing on the cover...
The Yamato is the most reliable mod I have ever run. Its almost like running a stock Yamato and more reliable than a stock Merc...

A lot of this is a learning curve and the little lady loves to give me a hard time. I can pay her back though since she is the club secretary this year.

Lee Tietze has helped me out and hopefully when the epoxy is set up tomorrow all problems will be over. It just a bit of new boat blues. Thats the second new boat for me where the throttle has come undone at the throttle handle.