Pit Tour! Unlimited Hydroplane Racing | The Columbia Cup 2023
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- In this video we take you on a personal tour through the pits at the Columbia Cup for Unlimited Hydroplanes in Kennewick Washington. See Unlimited, Grand Prix, and 2.5 Stock racing boats behind the scenes!
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Like the 2.5 Stocks. Sure miss the Eastern Divisionals when we had them in Deatur Ill. Love the boat racing and the pit tours.
Nice tour.
It´s wonderful how you comment everything. Thank you for giving so much information. I like very much your way to explain things and the way you comment your wonderful pictures. Wonderful!!!
Glad it was helpful!
A Great video, I had the pleasure of watching the Bud light and a few others run on the Detroit River many years ago they are awesome when you see them in person. Thanks for taking the time to share the video with us.
I see them every year and still get surprised by their size once I get up close!
this was a great pit tour! this hydroboats are crazy good looking fast monsters! wauw!🤠
Maybe you take a road trip next year!
I've got a pretty cool video of the U-3 sending the prop through the wing, happened directly in front of all of us on the Pasco side. Initially we all thought what we saw was a turbo flipping through the air until I played back the video.
There's a great onboard video that shows it too. Lotta money flying through the air!
Thank You for all you do!
What did I do except play with awesome race boats?!
@@M5PerfHydros Your great videos
Was crewing on Monkey Business, was nice to finally meet you!
Oh man you guys almost had it!
He'll the bottom of that boat was so polished, I could have picked you out of a lineup by your shadow of you video taping it on the ground. LOL
Hopefully you'll never need to!
You're absolutely right, Miss Renee is his mother's name, dedicating the boat to her cuz she passed away recently
Oh ok, didn't know that
I learned that watching the race live on TH-cam.
As far as those new style aft sponson drops with the fences, the U-8 has it only on the right sponson, the U-9 has it on both sponsons, and the U-40 has it only on the left side. The 40 is the only one with the extra little canard at the aft end of the sponson that appears to be set at an angle that turns the airflow almost straight down. I have often wondered if Vilwock was trying to blow high speed air into the water ahead of the skid fin in an attempt to get some aeration going. Might reduce skid fin drag a bit down the straights in addition to adding lift. Before he left the U-37, a few interesting gopro videos popped up. They had a camera mounted on the back of the sponson looking back and down at the skid fin. Sure looked like they were studying that area a lot. Then he left and suddenly the 40 had those mods done the year Dave started driving it. It will be interesting to see what the 27 looks like if they ever bring it back out since Dave has been heading up that rebuild.
Ah, the continuing struggle with the necessary evil of turn fins!
The tent setup is where the team does the Magneflux checks on the prop and stub shaft between races. They need a dark place for the black light.
Brilliant!
Haaaaa even this guy knows about 5 day later call with h1 one lol
I'm still wondering if they'll announce a new outcome any day
If “wokeness” invades this “escapism” sport and tries to fill my head with garbage, I will move on and never watch another race. Please- just show me fast boats and racing, and I will ALWAYS be here! God bless the boat racers! Let’s just race!
Great video Scott! Appreciate the views of the Graham Trucking boat which I'm building in 1/8 scale with MLB kit.
Great video 😊
Thanks D-Dub!
This is so awesome! Thanks for the tour. Love hydroplanes
Glad you enjoyed!
Thanks so much!
You're welcome much!
Thank you!! for the pit tour.
My pleasure!
Yes Sir 💪🇺🇸
I went to the southern cup at Guntersville lake, y'all have a whole lot more going on at the Columbia cup. A whole lot more boats in each class and have more classes, there were 7 boats in unlimited, 4 in Grand Prix, 8 in pro lite, 1 restored antique boat. And that was the whole venue. Which results in hours of downtime between rounds. Not that I wasn't amazed and didn't enjoy it but I was disappointed in the amount of time there was nothing going on.
There's still a ton of downtime here, sadly. To see a really great show you'll need to road trip up to Toronto/Quebec to watch some HRL races. Their program is awesome!
By building a carburetor for him are you referring to flowing a carburetor?
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We call it flowing a carburetor in the Southeast here, you know like porting a cylinder head. So it'll flow more cfm's.
Hearing your commentary on putting your tune on those full size hydros, and using your carburetors has me curious.
I'd love to see a video on your involvement. Seems like you're well respected in that pit area.
Tell us more please!
Used to build a lot of engines and hardware, but these days I only pop around the pits helping wherever needed. But since you asked, the most I'll do is give you 22 seconds from 13 years ago; th-cam.com/video/Aq3aCyd5FUI/w-d-xo.html
@@M5PerfHydros Very interesting, thanks for sharing the clip. That stuff is the real deal, the full size, we're only making cheaper copies...
No no, RC boat racers make the best big boat racers! I learn so much more from working on RC hydros than I do the big ones. With the toy boats we can try all sorts of crazy stuff, and nobody gets hurt if it doesn't work. Plus everything we do translates exactly to the big boats. All innovation happens with models before it makes its way to the big time.
That's awesome, I'm glad to hear that makes me feel better n easier to justify putting so much money into a toy boat. LOL
@@M5PerfHydros Ha !! #speedsecrets 😎