Charles Perdue
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WOW, Mr. Jim Wilson has done it again. He broke two NAMBA Heat racing records last weekend in Fremont, CA. on an offical NAMBA course.
On Saturday he shattered his old .21 Mono record by 11 seconds. With progressively faster heat times of 84 and 82 seconds, he finally recorded a run of 80.88 seconds (1:20.88). The boat was radared coming out of turn 6 at 61-64 mph.
On Sunday he lowered his Sport 21 record to 82.03 seconds (1:22.03).
The mono that he is running is a SD2 Seaducer powered by a CMB Valvola with a Brad Christy piston, a Brad Christy titanium rod, a Scott Bouchie custom 33K steel pipe, a 1614 chopper prop pitched at 3.1 inches, 70% nitro fuel and a prototype of the new Gen II Zoom .21 carb that will be avaliable the latter part of this year. The MC-9 plug was still glowing after 4 heats.
The Sport .21 hull is a scaled down Dave Frank Sport 40. The other details are the same except that the prop is a Mark Sholund X642 cupped to 4.29 inches.
For those of you that do not know Mr. Jim, he joined NAMBA in 1977 and has consistently held many heat racing records since 1979 in .21 Mono, .45 Mono, Sport 40, Sport .21 and .90 Rigger. He was the first boater to set a NAMBA heat racing record below 63 seconds (1:03).
On Saturday he shattered his old .21 Mono record by 11 seconds. With progressively faster heat times of 84 and 82 seconds, he finally recorded a run of 80.88 seconds (1:20.88). The boat was radared coming out of turn 6 at 61-64 mph.
On Sunday he lowered his Sport 21 record to 82.03 seconds (1:22.03).
The mono that he is running is a SD2 Seaducer powered by a CMB Valvola with a Brad Christy piston, a Brad Christy titanium rod, a Scott Bouchie custom 33K steel pipe, a 1614 chopper prop pitched at 3.1 inches, 70% nitro fuel and a prototype of the new Gen II Zoom .21 carb that will be avaliable the latter part of this year. The MC-9 plug was still glowing after 4 heats.
The Sport .21 hull is a scaled down Dave Frank Sport 40. The other details are the same except that the prop is a Mark Sholund X642 cupped to 4.29 inches.
For those of you that do not know Mr. Jim, he joined NAMBA in 1977 and has consistently held many heat racing records since 1979 in .21 Mono, .45 Mono, Sport 40, Sport .21 and .90 Rigger. He was the first boater to set a NAMBA heat racing record below 63 seconds (1:03).
