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WE BROKE EVERYTHING! PART 2 OF RACING A 1,300HP DRAG BOAT

Mike Finnegan's Garage is Part 2 of a 3 Part Series about my first weekend back behind the wheel of a real drag boat and it did not go well. We had parts fall off the boat, corroded parts that didn't work, and we ended the day with a motor milkshake and broken valve springs. But, we did make a couple of really good passes down the liquid dragstrip at over 131 mph in our naturally aspirated 2016 Ralls Precision Machine Cheyenne jet boat and so I'm still very happy. What makes this boat unique is that Andy Ralls cnc-machined all of the aluminum hardware on this boat to be as light as possible. He also had E-Ticket Boats in Lake Havasu, Arizona, laminate the hull entirely from carbon fiber. KMG Boats painted the red, black and gray hues, while Marine Performance Design blueprinted the Dominator jet drive. The boat is powered by a naturally-aspirated 632ci, 10.5 liter aluminum Big Block Chevy engine that produces 1,300hp without nitrous, or turbos or a supercharger. The engine was origi

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  • Originally Aired November 26, 2022
  • Runtime 46 minutes
  • Created December 2, 2022 by
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  • Modified December 2, 2022 by
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