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Old 05-26-2011, 05:40 AM
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danielplace
 
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Default RE: New motor for BJ55

Bring plenty of fuel for the retrieve boat.
Roger and I have both had extremely overpowered Blackjacks that ran near 55-60 mph but quite honestly they are overpowered stock. The hull has very bad high speed handling charcteristics mainly do to the lift designed to get the hull up and attain decent speeds stock. Blowovers and rollovers is something the Blackjack does well stock add horsepower and they can get unmanagable. High speed straight line blasts and easy round the corner at half speed
is about what it amounts to.
I put a lot of money in mine but quite honestly it was not a lot of fun as it is upside down more than right side up. Save a couple bucks and get a hull designed for modern HP engines and you will have the time of your life once again able to go out and run any course at near full speed for a full tank of fuel and actually bring it back in under it's own power.

Best of luck. Be safe with that monster your creating. Hope she really skedaddles, how could it not. Lol.