These boats are truly awesome. Driven with respect, they are very fast and a hell of a lot of fun. IMO, they are more “Hot Rod” than cars. Thank you for sharing!!

You lost me with the KPH now I have to do math lol nice boat by the way

Nice boat. Steel head, no compression or cam, 60 over chevy 93mph more like 500 hp.

Awesome 👏

Is the Hondo for sale ?

Thanks for the explanation. What is the braided hose coming out the back going down?

@mcsqL7

6 жыл бұрын

Adam that is the water pick up for cooling the engine ... some older boats put them Through the bottom of the boat underneath the engine. It’s better to have them on the Cavitation plate as that part of the boat spends more time in the water when going over waves

@jimtohmas898

2 жыл бұрын

They call that plate in the back that goes across the back of the boat the ride plate what are those hoses usually cools the engine goes to the engine water pump if it has one or if it's force-fed it just goes up into The Front Tea across where the water pump would have sat the other one cools the V-drive

@jimtohmas898

2 жыл бұрын

Nothing like the rush you get from a high-powered flat-bottom with a V drive when but my racing craft it was a super stock boat that means you could build a motor with off-the-shelf parts from GM or Ford or mine was clocked in the kilos at 109 mile per hour in Tonawanda New York when I got it first thing I did was pull the motor but a big roller cam in it but tunnel ram on it to 1050 Holly's protect Magneto and I was turning that motor 8200 RPMs weather 33% overdrive in the gearbox in the 12-inch pitch stellings prop probably around 225 somewhere around there maybe a little more maybe a little less I thought that was quick till I got a ride in a k boat with a supercharged motor

I'm in Wyoming so we only boat 2-3 months a year

Mooi spul

I would really like to know if there is a forum where I can learn more about these flat bottom boats. I'm in the midwest (Ohio) so there isn't much of a crowd for these things here, do you belong to an online forum that you'd be willing to recommend?

@FlatBroke612

7 жыл бұрын

Performance boats.com has a v drive forum.

@jimtohmas898

2 жыл бұрын

Ohio Lake Milton when I had my flat bottem raysoncraft that's were I ran it There were 3 Other flat bottom v drives. Som pretty fast jet boats but v drives are the way to go

@purdyboi8078

6 ай бұрын

Classic V-Drive Club of America...Git-R-Done!!

I came here cause I wanted to see the white blouse

@purdyboi8078

6 ай бұрын

HA!! Dude...me too!!

What year is this boat ?

@mcsqL7

4 жыл бұрын

VA482GG I don’t know exact date late 70’s

I have an 83 xh511t-deck Hondo BBC powerglide I love it been 126mph 1/4

@billallen4793

7 жыл бұрын

I'm in Wyoming so only boat 2-3 months a year

@jbaker8871

2 жыл бұрын

If you ever go to sell your boat will you look me up. From Phoenix and really love the hondo.

@billallen4793

2 жыл бұрын

@@jbaker8871 I want to sell it! It's the last year they were produced and the fastest hull design in the world 17'10", 18ft 1983 Tdeck runner bottom, 11x13 left hand elephant ear prop, Casale V-drive, BBC468, top fuel engine mounts,, powerglide transmission, no torque converter, with a manual valve body, 1st for no wake zones and reverse for stopping when coming back to the dock, 2nd gear is 1to1. Full length internal wooden runners. Launched in spring of 1996, It's been parked since 2001, I only put 30-50hrs total due to my being disabled in a workplace injury. I spent three year's building this boat. Will sell with or without engine and trans. Custom 14gal aluminum fuel cell's 2 of them. Aluminum removable floor, shifter. C.N.C. hydrologic throttle so it can't EVER bind and stick wide open. My high-school buddy almost died in his Hawaiian jet boat from that. Adjustable trim tabs. Average altitude is around 5500ft, 7200rpm in high gear.

@billallen4793

2 жыл бұрын

@@jbaker8871 colors are battleship/gun metal Grey with cranberry, and sour apple jellcoat. From the side it has a ZZ Top kinda look...lol it really does kill me to just watch it sit, along with the rest of the toy's I was building and cannot work on anymore. Full convertible 75 Blazer with 3/4 and 1ton axles 37" open country MT's was my shtf survival rig, I was building a rotary engine 2stroke Suzuki motorcycle for Bonneville salt flats, my old flattracker a Kawasaki bighorn 350cc, multiple old snowmachines. Getting injured sucks, 😪 be safe, hope to hear from you soon. I've been kicked off fakebook, so I'll have to get your phone number, or give you mine if you're seriously interested. Let me know...from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 🤠

I've never seen a runner bottom without an up pedal. With the kinds of speeds that you're capable of, how do you keep the cavitation plate from getting sucked down and pushing the bow down?

@mcsqL7

5 жыл бұрын

You use a heavy return spring to hold the pedal up... no need for a up pedal to Hold the cavitation plate in the proper location

Engine is backwards cause of continued spinouts so it doesn't stall

@nvkblankenship

4 жыл бұрын

Lol.

What is the cubic inches, nobody cares about liters except European countries

@mcsqL7

3 жыл бұрын

Video was made for European / Dutch people it's 468 CI

@bigharrykochenbauls4567

3 жыл бұрын

And, properly educated people, of which you are clearly NOT ONE..

@ronyoung6054

3 жыл бұрын

@@bigharrykochenbauls4567 bore x bore x stroke x .7854 x number of cylinders = cubic inches that's us uneducated people figuring out the size of an engine. But I'm sure you educated people already new that

@bigharrykochenbauls4567

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronyoung6054 well yeah... congratulations on discovering Google Search What I was getting at, is that I know how to convert inches to liters, because I'm educated... see how literally ignorant you are. 😒

@bigharrykochenbauls4567

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronyoung6054 And, it's... What "are" the cubic inches? you Knob

750 horse with no blower, nitrous or turbo ? Not sure about that.

@mcsqL7

5 жыл бұрын

Here is a small block with no blower nitrous or turbo making over 900 hp. Maybe you should learn more about what’s in side a Engine. Then what’s bolted onto it. kzread.info/dash/bejne/jKKpxq6JXanQo8Y.html

@jbaker8871

2 жыл бұрын

@@mcsqL7 looks like steel heads, No compression, small cam and it ran 93mph. He’s right motor is making 550-600hp at best. Better steel doesn’t make hp. Maybe you should read up sum?

@purdyboi8078

6 ай бұрын

@@mcsqL7No need for dick mode, old time...especially when you _know_ he has a point, no matter what imaginary internal parts

Your lucky you got to skip storing maintinance cleaning polishing purchasing chasing parts buying fuel a tow rig camper lake fees flooded fuel tanks bad gas flat tires and who knows what else to just hop in and run 90.

@mcsqL7

2 жыл бұрын

I've had two Boats same style for over 20 years. Building a third. I'm lucky to have a friend like Richard that trusts me with his toy.