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Re: Triton 100mph [Re: Ken A.] #12391528 08/18/17 08:48 PM
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Originally Posted By: Ken A.
I saw a brand new Skeeter tee bone a buoy on Fork one afternoon. Maybe he'll come on here and tell us about it... roflmao


who won?

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Re: Triton 100mph [Re: Ken A.] #12391592 08/18/17 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted By: Ken A.
I saw a brand new Skeeter tee bone a buoy on Fork one afternoon. Maybe he'll come on here and tell us about it... roflmao


That's just wrong....... smile

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Re: Triton 100mph [Re: formula462] #12391622 08/18/17 09:38 PM
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He is well known on BBC, that guy knows how to drive!

Re: Triton 100mph [Re: formula462] #12391674 08/18/17 10:08 PM
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I'll never understand why people are all about squeezing performance out of THEIR boat but anybody with a faster boat is dumb and dangerous....

Re: Triton 100mph [Re: formula462] #12391759 08/18/17 11:03 PM
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From the looks of the motor cowling it appears to be an older 300 ProMax and I'm sure it's warmed over. As for his driving skills those center console bass boats are a little bit easier to control then a side console. I've never driven Triton's version but I have driven Bullets and Allisons with center consols, the chine walking is so much easier to control.
Back to the Tritons. Back in 97 I had the one of the very first ones built, a TR21PD. IIRC it was hull number 23 rigged with a Merc 3.0L 225EFI. Bone stock it with a 25" trophy prop it would run 76-77 with me and all my gear and a half tank of fuel. First winter I had it I took it back to the factory for some gelcoat work on the cap and met with Roark Summerford, the hull designer who also was the designer of STV hulls. Come to find out the first 25 or so hulls were laid up light to be dealer demos. According to their records my hull weighed 1270lbs. Yes the first year Tritons were a handfull to drive and they did some mods the pad to make it easier for the average boater to drive. Soon as my 1yr warranty expired I had G-Force marine add the second set of butterflys to the intake, added 300ProMax heads, relived the exhaust by drilling the liner and the midsection under the cavitation plate (frigging loud), solid motor mounts, a 6" jack plate and a Land&Sea nose cone with low water pickups. My best speeds with the trolling motor on, 3 batteries, all my tackle and fuel slinging a 29" Yamaha HP semiclever prop worked over by Tillmans propellers it would bang the rev limiter @ 88 mph. With my buddies 29" Hoss Triton prop off his Allison it would bump 89 but the acceleration sucked. With two people and full livewells it would still run 82-83. Was going to change the ECU to the 300ProMax's for the extra 400 rpm's but ran out of money. Don't know how much faster the extra rev's would have gotten me and ended up selling it a few years later thanks to a crazy ex-wife who kept me one pay check away from broke.

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Re: Triton 100mph [Re: formula462] #12391822 08/19/17 12:05 AM
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That same boat he bought from hydrotec. They had a sho on it that went over 100 then he bought it and put the 300 merc on it. The sho was a 200 too.

Re: Triton 100mph [Re: the skipper] #12391851 08/19/17 12:27 AM
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Originally Posted By: the skipper
That same boat he bought from hydrotec. They had a sho on it that went over 100 then he bought it and put the 300 merc on it. The sho was a 200 too.


Knowing HydroTec it may have started as a 200 but I'm betting it has a stage 111 kit on it.

Re: Triton 100mph [Re: formula462] #12391900 08/19/17 01:12 AM
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I had my ranger going 82 last week

Re: Triton 100mph [Re: WAWI] #12391941 08/19/17 01:39 AM
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Originally Posted By: WAWI
I had my ranger going 82 last week


Down hill with a tail wind?

Re: Triton 100mph [Re: tmd11111] #12391946 08/19/17 01:43 AM
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Originally Posted By: tmd11111
Originally Posted By: WAWI
I had my ranger going 82 last week


Down hill with a tail wind?


On the trailer going down the high way?

Re: Triton 100mph [Re: Drodge] #12391949 08/19/17 01:45 AM
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Originally Posted By: WAWI
I had my ranger going 82 last week


Down hill with a tail wind?


On the trailer going down the high way?


Yep, i20 headed to pk. That tundra can pull lol.

Re: Triton 100mph [Re: WAWI] #12391978 08/19/17 02:12 AM
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I had my ranger going 82 last week
82mph right over the top of all that PK hydrilla?

Re: Triton 100mph [Re: formula462] #12392027 08/19/17 02:47 AM
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His graph game is weak

Re: Triton 100mph [Re: formula462] #12392080 08/19/17 03:17 AM
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Get to the fish faster right? I think anything of about 55-60 is a bit scary


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Re: Triton 100mph [Re: tmd11111] #12392128 08/19/17 04:17 AM
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Originally Posted By: tmd11111
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That same boat he bought from hydrotec. They had a sho on it that went over 100 then he bought it and put the 300 merc on it. The sho was a 200 too.


Knowing HydroTec it may have started as a 200 but I'm betting it has a stage 111 kit on it.

It may have had a "little" work to it. I know it was flashed. I heard something about camshaft and maybe heads. Lower unit of course. It's a bad mamajama

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