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Post by Shoey Tue 17 Jun 2008, 2:51 pm

Here is my 1/24 scale drag boat. This one was built long ago out of Balsa, I have since discovered evergreen Plastic sheets.
the motor is out of the Castrol Olds funny car (I think)
My passion for boats came from the 70's when I used to watch my Dad race them. (But nothing this powerful)

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Post by stevegt738 Tue 17 Jun 2008, 4:46 pm

Nice, insane but nice Very Happy.
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Post by tezza43 Tue 17 Jun 2008, 4:56 pm

Cool build Shoey. Does the boat touch the water when the engine is in full song?
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Post by tjjr07 Tue 17 Jun 2008, 6:08 pm

awesome boat, i love the engines these guys build, race boat engine's, 8000rpm plus- all day long
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Post by Bryce Tue 17 Jun 2008, 6:13 pm

Cool Very Happy
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Post by Shoey Tue 17 Jun 2008, 6:35 pm

tezza43 wrote:Cool build Shoey. Does the boat touch the water when the engine is in full song?


Some of these boats hardley touch at all, there is a boat called Madness that runs a 4.6 second standing 1/4 mile.
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Post by Shoey Tue 17 Jun 2008, 6:44 pm

tjjr07 wrote:awesome boat, i love the engines these guys build, race boat engine's, 8000rpm plus- all day long

Thanks , but these engines dont last longer than a minute at full noise, thats about 10 runs. the rebuilds dont take log either.
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Post by Paul Tue 17 Jun 2008, 7:37 pm

Awesome work ! That would be a scary 1/4 mile !!!!
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Post by micsmav Tue 26 May 2009, 9:23 am

Thats grouse mate ! wow
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Post by TomA Tue 26 May 2009, 2:10 pm

Nice boats Shoey! super I like boats as well. They have some kind of strange attraction.

Do you vacform any hulls?
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Post by allan Wed 27 May 2009, 2:19 pm

Twisted Evil that's so cool
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Post by Clutch Thu 28 May 2009, 12:57 am

I like it more knowing you built it out of balsa, nice work man.
I"m guessing you also built the trailer from scratch?
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Post by Maximus Thu 28 May 2009, 7:45 am

Man, I love this boat. AWESOME job! Where do you get your hulls?
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Post by Shoey Thu 28 May 2009, 7:24 pm

Hey Maximus, This boat and the drag boat were scratch built from balsa, My more recent ones are built from Evergreen plastic sheets. my dad used to race back in the 70's it's name was Ace hunter. a 11ft Spider Hunter with a 50 hp Merc hangin of the back.
Cheers

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Post by Knackers Thu 29 Apr 2010, 8:08 am

Shoey, the boats you have built are amazing, the trailer on the drag boat looks so good,I like the detail on the “Ace Hunter” especially the old Holden hub caps & the motor, great work mate.
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Post by allan Thu 29 Apr 2010, 8:59 am

now thats a diffrent way to build a out board for it. drag boat - Drag Boat. Icon_cool
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Post by Kane Thu 29 Apr 2010, 7:44 pm

Another awesome boat!
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