Great job KP!
I'd also love to see the vid.
And I'm also glad to see a Lawless under the Nova.
Many have said that a K&B is faster and set all the records.Including Rod Gereghty.
I think the Lawless lowers are faster myself.
Thanks for proving it.
I have never said the K&B was "faster"......what I said was the K&B used less power the turn the cable than the Lawless did.I measured that on the little electric test stand/dyno I built to measure the drag in NR motor front oil seals.I went from oil seals to outboard lower units to cable installations.What I found out also surprized me.
The O.S. also uses the laydown design like the Lawless and it also runs like hell,so much for the difference in power to run the cable meaning much with what we presently know .It kinda makes you wonder what we are "still" missing in the whole approach we are using when it takes 40% less power to run a cable at 90 degrees of bend rather than 15/20 degrees of bend and we only break the record by less than one mile per hour.
You get enough good boaters testing and refining the same piece of equipment and they will always make it faster.
Think about it.........It only took "TWELVE" years to break Tommy Lee's .21 mod tunnel record by less than "1" MPH, [.835 mph to be exact].
All that has been proved here is KP is one dam good boater.There is no doubt about it ,KP had his sxxt together to get this done.
IMO breaking a record by .835 mph isn't exactly a slam dunk endorsement of any piece of equipment.
Tommy and I did extensive testing on both lower ends without any clear speed advantage to either one........and that was "12" years ago.
As to quality and all around reliability,no doubt the LawLess is far superior to the K&B,but significantly faster,I don't believe ".835" mph proves anything.
The boat that Tommy set the record with was heavy as 3.5 tunnels go,and the Huntsville pond was not long enough for the boat to reach top speed before getting into the lights.Several times the boat went out the back door over 70mph......it just took the motor awhile to spool up in the lights.
With 74 mph passes the record is going to be broken again.All it takes now is perfect weather,perfect water,flawless equipment and great driving.It could happen in weeks,months or even another 12 years.It is all now in the hands of the RC gods.
There isn't a record in the book that can't be broken if somebody is willing to expend the effort to do it.