A new/old jet boat fantasy claim

[ElAzul]

Ever heard of the dye tank? Heard this one twice a long long time ago by the 100mph 455/Panther combo type jet boater. Claimed they took their boat to the dye tank for testing. Supposedly they dunk the boat, floor it and measure how deep it will pull dye (the logistics of that seem baffling to me) because the deeper it pulls dye the better the setup and power. I laughed out loud each time and walked away from the convo. Anyone heard of this before???

 

[guest hs]

No boat ever went 100 with a Panther Jet
Drive

 

[ElAzul]

No boat ever went 100 with a Panther Jet
Drive

GTFO every jet bote is triple digit's

 

[floatn turd]

Hell ya, I've heard of "the dye tank speed acquisition test"

It's been around for years and used on some of the most famous "go fast" vessels ever to be equipped with the legendary Panther Jet Pump.





Vassels such as.........

 

[monkeyswrench]

No boat ever went 100 with a Panther Jet
Drive

Any given Friday night...on Rice Rd

 

[mash on it]

No boat ever went 100 with a Panther Jet
Drive [EVER]

Fixed it for ya.

Dan'l

 

[78Southwind]

Pretty cool story by Gale Banks about the 455 Olds. It's in the first couple minutes of the video.

 

[RiverDave]

I have never heard of this before..

 

[River Runnin]

Didn't they call that! ....... The Suck Zone?

 

[Flying_Lavey]

Didn't they call that! ....... The Suck Zone?

Hey.... I think I dated her?

 

[FreeBird236]

I actually heard about that, but that's about the end of it. The guy that blueprinted my pump in the late 70's was adamant that I didn't nail the boat in less than 6' of water, always claimed a good boat would pull 20' diameter and up to 10' deep. As young guys we always believed him and tried to take care of our stuff, he did run in the 160's in "Blown Fever"

 

[monkeyswrench]

I actually heard about that, but that's about the end of it. The guy that blueprinted my pump in the late 70's was adamant that I didn't nail the boat in less than 6' of water, always claimed a good boat would pull 20' diameter and up to 10' deep. As young guys we always believed him and tried to take care of our stuff, he did run in the 160's in "Blown Fever"

Damn, my impeller must look like a garbage disposal! Good thing I don't make much power, but from Needles to Laughlin, some places I would pucker

 

[FreeBird236]

Damn, my impeller must look like a garbage disposal! Good thing I don't make much power, but from Needles to Laughlin, some places I would pucker

Back in those days pumps had a lot of clearance until you had them reworked, I think stock today are much better. Once you're on plane and at speed probably don't pull quite as deep. I'm sure I went across a few sandbars myself.

 

[was thatguy]

Back in those days pumps had a lot of clearance until you had them reworked, I think stock today are much better. Once you're on plane and at speed probably don't pull quite as deep. I'm sure I went across a few sandbars myself.

I’m no hydrologist, or motion physicist, but I’m pretty sure at some point forward motion takes over as far as pump loading...especially with an aggressive shoe and loader ramp. Judging from how hard mine plants the bow under sudden deceleration I’d say it’s sucking very little at speed. This is easily proven with a gauge in the bowl upstream of the impeller.
(That’s how shoe and loader tuning can be done)

Having said that, I’ve never done any dye testing, but I’ve torn mine apart more than once to clean out rocks I’ve vacuumed up while idling. It’ll pump smaller ones right out, and sometimes jam the reverser. But golf ball ones will jam in the blades or bowl fins.
(Stainless impellers are the greatest invention ever!)

This happened at the Turtle.

 

[GRADS]

Hell ya, I've heard of "the dye tank speed acquisition test"
It's been around for years and used on some of the most famous "go fast" vessels ever to be equipped with the legendary Panther Jet Pump.
Vassels such as.........

WANT!!!

 

[TITTIES AND BEER]

Hell ya, I've heard of "the dye tank speed acquisition test"

It's been around for years and used on some of the most famous "go fast" vessels ever to be equipped with the legendary Panther Jet Pump.





Vassels such as.........

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O Fuck this is funny

 

[mash on it]

20 years ago, long before the "dredged no wake channel" at the mouth of the river, I was heading south bound, nearing "reed island" and went on the west side of the island. A larger family type boat had been in my wake for quite a while. He went around the east side of the island.

At 45ish, the jet thrust was completely brown sand/mud. I guess it was shallow, less than a foot? A hundred yards later, back to clear blue river/white thrust...

Dan'l

 

[jetboatperformance]

The "draft" of a jet can be very deep (3 to 6 feet) , in 25 years we've seen innumerable ingested debris objects including ropes, monofiliment, trash bags, sticks, ball caps etc but mostly rocks even the size of golf balls . The suction is such that the rocks can actually be pulled thru the intake standard grate . We always encourage folks to "push off from shore" always before start up

 

[was thatguy]

The "draft" of a jet can be very deep (3 to 6 feet) , in 25 years we've seen innumerable ingested debris objects including ropes, monofiliment, trash bags, sticks, ball caps etc but mostly rocks even the size of golf balls . The suction is such that the rocks can actually be pulled thru the intake standard grate . We always encourage folks to "push off from shore" always before start up

Remember that log you pulled out of mine when you did the reset? Lol

I’m still running that same stainless impeller you sold me what? 10 years ago?
Thing is indestructible. I’ve ground up all kinds of stuff!
Probably gonna do a ring swap this winter though.