Which is faster, a speedster or a chevy engine boat?

[cheappc]

Which is faster, a speedster or a chevy engine boat?

I got on my friends jetboat with a 375 hp chevy engine which felt really quick..

But compared to a 255 speedster, or the speedster 200? which will be faster on take off and top speed?

 

[Dr Honda]

Not to sound harsh... but that's a bad question.

First... there are too many variables with hull design, size, and weight. Also, it depends how well the pump has been tuned.

All you can do is go out with a GPS and find out yourself.

 

[cheappc]

I guess I was just amazed, the boat was very nice, different but very nice, loud and fast, and a lot of torque. Of course my boat was more capable in handling cornering, 360's, on the waves, so in that respect my boat was more fun, but his boat was way more powerful.

Though I only have 7 hours and I really cant open it up.

 

[Dr Honda]

Go get 10 hrs on it... and the computer will give you full power.

 

[LouDoo]

This is just my personal opinion, I know exactly the kind of boat you're talking about, big block, blown chevy connected to a berkley pump, old school boat. It's like a Corvette on the water, not the most practical boat but I always wanted one. For raw power it's gonna be real tough to beat it with any SeaDoo.

I know I'm gonna get some argument and I know this is a SeaDoo forum but those old jet boats were something else, real power. Sorry if I remissness.

Lou

 

[cheappc]

This is just my personal opinion, I know exactly the kind of boat you're talking about, big block, blown chevy connected to a berkley pump, old school boat. It's like a Corvette on the water, not the most practical boat but I always wanted one. For raw power it's gonna be real tough to beat it with any SeaDoo.

I know I'm gonna get some argument and I know this is a SeaDoo forum but those old jet boats were something else, real power. Sorry if I remissness.

Lou

Exactly LouDoo!

Thats the boat Im talking about. It was somewhat comfortable too (not like a seadoo challenger or islandia comfortable, but like a 1978 Grand Marqui comfortable ahahah know what I mean?).

But in all seriousness, the boat was mostly made of wood, maybe a little fiberglass if any. The back of the boat sat very low, so when we beached it and someone came to beach their boat a small wave totally covered his engine, though he had a pretty good bilge system that sprayed the water out, pretty cool.

For Raw power I like that boat, but it sucked up gas like those old cars, extremely loud (which was cool), but really enjoying it for like 6 hours straight?

At the end of the day like I mentioned, I think with my boat we had more fun, I took my whole family out, like 10 of us, 4 adults and 6 kids, (taking turns with 3), I went the whole day on the lake the kids had a blast, and I finally did go through 3/4 of a thank in 5 hours non stop fun! This fun included doing mild 360's, jumping waves, and just having a blast.

We were having so much fun that the Coast Guard lit up their lights and stopped my boat, and the officer told me that I cant be riding my boat like it was a big jet ski (LOL)!, almost gave me a fine for "Reckless Driving", for following too close to another boat (i was riding his wave) so I apologized to him and I stopped.

It was great at the end of the day!