Warlock Boats

[Preston_Hall]

Same electronic timers/beams as in SAW.

1200/time(sec)=oval mph

225/time(sec)=SAW mph

 

[AWaddle322]

Jon,

The distance measured around the course is actually from the centerline of the buoys. When you take and add half of the buoy which is typically 5" and another foot to get around the buoys with out touching them you have added alot of feet to to the length to the course that is actually driven.The other decieving part is that model boats loss a lot of speed in the corners. Take and measure your boat speed right at the moment it rounds buoy 5 with a radar gun. there is not but a brief part of second that you can actually get a true reading because anytime that radar gun is subjected to an angle you get unaccuratrate result.

Taken John Browns 20 record run and breaking it down

75 mph = 3.000 seconds for each straight away 12 seconds total

18.862 - 12.000= 6.862 time allowed for 4 corners

6.862 /4 = 1.72 seconds per corner

there is 110' in each corner. if his boat was traveling 60 mph he would cover 88 feet per second or 110" in approx 1.25 seconds. I dont have time right now to figure the speed he was actually running ine the corners but it was less than 60 miles per hour. Iam only breaking this down so that you can see how much speed you loose in the corners and i only used 2 decimal points and rounded for simplicity.

When you see it brook down like this it really shows how much you really do slow down in the corners.

Tommy Lee suggest for going for records to get you a saw pass and get someone with a stop watch to measure your corner speed and do the math to see if you are close. Doing it Tommys way you will come up real close if the person with the stop watch is close.

Heat Races and records are won with turn speed. Something I am not very good at but trying to learn more about daily. Sound and looks of boat speed are very decieving in the turns. Hope that this help explain why mph seem so slow.

Sincerely,

Allen Waddle

 

[AWaddle322]

My above post is flawed in times because this assumes that the boat is not accerarating out of the corners (it assumes that the boat is covering the entire straightaway at 75). Taking this into account he was probably running real close to 60 in the corners and 75 down the straights. Sorry for an confusion this may have caused.

Sincerely,

Allen Waddle

 

[Terry Keeley]

Ya that's all good but I saw someone run just over an 18 second oval last fall in Hunstville, and it wasn't "Mr Harry"...

 

[warlokboats]

thanks for the info allen. see ya in evansville may 1st.

jon

 

[davo]

well hold that thing FLAT in the corners and if you flip its just another day..............

 

[AWaddle322]

Terry,

We bettered that run you say in huntsville by over 1/2 second this weekend. Iam 99 percent sure that we had a run going that would have done the job but 100' before the last light a rod ejected itself through the side of the case. O'well october is not all that far away.

Allen

 

[Terry Keeley]

Awsome!!! Did ya break 18 seconds? Who was driving? What kind of conditions did you have? Who's rod was it? How fast was it runnin' on the straight-away???????????? Man, I gotta smell the nitro again soon!!! :blink:

 

[AWaddle322]

I had 5 passes under 18 seconds with a best of 17.59. Water good. Tempature in the mid 80's with my air density gauge reading 87. It was an RPM rod and it broke just below the wrist pin. The motor wat destroyed. Only salvage parts will be water jacket, drum, and if Iam willing to take the time to cut the case in half maybe the crank. I have seen some rods go through the case before but never like this. I could not find the big top end numbers like in November but really found some turn speed(bad air no short pipes). The recomdations you and Gary made on the prop would never hook, just cavitate, it was already heat treated so I could not add cup to try it but will. Top end speed coming of the buoys ( not going out deep to get these numbers, just coming of 6 and running and turning at 1) was 86. I wish that motor was not destroyed but it has been a very good motor. It was the first picco I ever bought in 1999 and my log book shows that it had 49 gallons(same piston and sleeve) of fuel through it But it was stock other than rod and carb so maybe it will not be hard to duplicate its perfromance. New motor (has had 1/2 gallon before) showed some pretty good potential with a 17.9 ( not leaned in yet) We get the right conditions we will get there and if not that is fine to, haven a good time chasen it. We didnt let HG drive my boat at all. We got to do plenty of running( not very many people).

Allen Waddle

 

[Terry Keeley]

KEWL!!! Sure if you had decent air you woulda been there! Forty nine gallons, I gotta move south :blink: