I Hit 1. 15 MPH In A 2,7. HP Race Boat And It Was Eerily Smooth UPDATED WITH VIDEOOne hundred and fifteen miles an hour in a car isnt anything to turn your nose up at. Certainly, automakers these days tout their elite models as 2. MPH smashing beasts, but, honestly, how many people take their cars up to those speeds anywaysOne hundred and fifteen is still very fast, but also a perfectly attainable speed, given a decent enough stretch of road and ample power. Would it be just as feasible on the Hudson RiverI went to find out. Last summer, boat engine maker Mercury Marine invited me to check out a 1,4. Cigarette boat. It was mind blowing. I dont think the skin on my face has settled down into quite the same way after that encounter. Today was a little different than most others because today I got to take a 1. Read more Read. This year, they brought something a little more extreme the one kilometer speed record breaking SV 4. Outerlimits race boat, built largely out of carbon fiber. Onehundred and fifteen miles an hour in a car isnt anything to turn your nose up at. Certainly, automakers these days tout their elite models as 200MPHsmashing. Powered by two twin turbocharged 9. V8 engines, the SV 4. RPM on 9. 1 octane fuel. Im confident that I probably wont ever come close to a car with nearly that much power. Contact Zoosk Customer Service. Find Zoosk Customer Support, Phone Number, Email Address, Customer Care Returns Fax, 800 Number, Chat and Zoosk FAQ. Speak with. Theres a reason for their sugary diet. This population of bears in Wisconsin lives by the lawhunters can feed them bait for up to six months out of the year. Gmail is email thats intuitive, efficient, and useful. 15 GB of storage, less spam, and mobile access. So, boats it is. The pitch email that Mercury sent mentioned that the Outerlimits boat could go 1. I had no doubt. The SV 4. The man responsible for our outing was Dan Kleitz, Outerlimits customer service manager. He greeted us with a winning smile and showed us how to climb onto the boat and lower ourselves into the cockpit. Usually the cockpit was enclosed, but that day they had the top off. Kleitz warned me that my hair might get messed up. I assured him that this was most certainly the intent of the afternoon. The inside of the SV 4. Kleitz and I settled in the two Alcantara lined carbon fiber bucket seats in the front. Jalopnik video producer Adam Milt and two other Mercury employees crammed themselves into the backseat. Screens, buttons and switches dotted and sparse carbon fiber dashboard splayed before me. It all looked very complicated. Beyond the tiny front window, the boats long nose expanded outwards. This was all bulkhead for strength and protection against crashesthe largest crumple zone that Id ever seen. Kleitz carefully navigated the lance out of the marina, pointed it uptown and opened up the throttle. It was spooky. I waited for the murderous G force, for the deafening roar of the engines. It never came. Yes, I heard the turbos spooling upa massive whooshing sound. Yes, I felt the accelerationa magnetic pull that glued me to my seat. Yes, I watched the numbers on the digital speedometer fly into the triple digitsalmost instantly. But as far as noise and cabin vibration went, we could have been going a mere 4. The Hudson which, to my knowledge, has no speed limit was fairly calm that day, which Im sure helped with the ride quality, but I still expected more violence from a vessel traveling that quickly over water. It was utterly effortless. I wasnt driving the boat, but even from the passenger seat I could feel that wed barely scratched the surface of what this thing was capable of. Curious still, I raised myself from the seat and stuck my head out the roof just to see. Keep your sunglasses on, Kleitz cautioned. Ive lost contact lenses that way. The rushing wind caught me square in the face, ballooning my cheeks out cartoonishly. There was the ferocity I was looking for. I asked Kleitz if he used full throttle for our run. He chuckled in the same way that wealthy people chuckle when you ask if the entree you ordered for dinner was too expensive. No, not at all. Emblazoned on the side of this SV 4. That is how fast this boat went to set the one kilometer speed record back in 2. The number itself is an average, taken from two separate one kilometer passes one against the current and one with it. The speeds for those runs were 1. Its worth pointing out that the boat was powered by twin 1,6. The SV 4. 3 is based on a regular Outerlimits v bottom boat. This one had been stripped out and race preppedbasically the difference between an Acura NSX road car and an NSX GT3 race car. There was an option for a five point safety harness. Kleitz mentioned that he was building an SV 4. He called it a pleasure craft, which, in turn, made me laugh. Sure, if you find stuffing two massive V8 racing engines into a pencil like body, making it capable of hitting nearly 2. Of course, if boats arent your thing, you can always pack one of those engines into a car. Twin Turbo Big Block Tantrum. The First Ever Street Car with Mercury Racings Twin Turbo Read more Read. Update 1. 1 3. 2 a. This post has been updated with video.
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