STILL ALIVE! The most important 2 word's in your comment! We lost so many great driver's back in the old pre cockpit boat's! And as a flatbottom owner/racer i poo poooed them like alot of other's when it became mandatory! But theres a ton of people hugging loved one's last x-mas, that'd be dead otherwise!...from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 👋🤠
Awsome sound. Nice to see these things are still around. I miss watching them on the big 1-2/3 mile courses that are no longer allowed by the APBA. Thanks for posting!
Was amazing in the 70's and 80's. Lived in Washington state most of my life. Went to races all over the place. Ahhh the MEMORIES Sounds and Smells Ah. Alcohol. The ONLY kind I like.
Hmm, I loved John Madden and owned a Biesemeyer!! In late 70s we would watch these boats race on the Snake River at Burley. Of the 25 or so that ran in K class, most were Biesemeyers, a few Revenge (I believe so named due to a falling out with Rusty Biesemeyer). The Revenge was almost identical to the Biese, except for a ridge on middle of bow! Correct me if my memory is wrong.
That is so on the edge of needing NHRA style emergency extraction teams at the ready, plus an F F18 style driver canopy. All while requiring fire suppression, and oxygen. Oh yeah, where’s his fire suit ?
The new K boats require closed cockpits due to some bad accidents that have happened. I'm certain there's some K Boats like these around as well as the lower classes such as superstocks that don't run cockpits due to cost reasons. I'm pretty sure in this video he was only testing which to guys with balls like theirs is nothing but a walk in the park.
@@northsyda1732 They usually quote 'hull less engine', in which case $5k if rigged w/v-drive and necessary hardware may not be far off. Blown 500cu in rat motor(big block chevy) probably costs over $10k itself!
Go to a circleboat race and you will see all inboard class v-drive boats have PTO (power take off) from the crank snout. Been like this since the early 1960's.
They drive from the rear of the engines. That's why the engines are installed backwards. They then drive through the V drive which then drives the prop through the back of the boats. All classes with V drive operate that way. As did my and essentially all ski race boats also. That includes hydros
@@philoliver3309no. Ss and sk boats drive from the flywheel side. These k series boats drive off the front of the crankshaft(or snout). This motor is in the forward position. Big catcher is reversed so water doesn’t go in the motor from other k boat splash.
@@billallen4793The cavitation plate mounted on the transom works kinda like a flap on an airplane. It helps keep the bow low due to weight bias toward stern. I've watched them stand on the throttle coming out of a turn and the whole boat just leaps out of the water! 2 blade props=less drag and spin up crazy fast!!
@@vdrivevideo I didn't think so, he's an old buddy of mine that won the k boat championship in I think in 72 and 74 I just threw it in there because watches the RU-vid videos.
