Click on the photo for a 20 second video.

Taken in my friend's Stratus 201. I think we were doing around 50 at the time.

Sucker chine walks like a mofo once you get up to 75.

The 201 is a very nice ride, must be reading speedo though, 75 is about the max a 201 will run with an HO and running light. Chine walk at 70+ is very common for a fully aired out 201. If the setup is right, some seat time learning to drive it will take care of the chine walk. Even when you are used to it, a true 75 - 80 mph is haullinass.

A couple of years ago I built a motor for a friends 94, 201 that would barely hit 62 with his Johnson 200. I also added a 10" jackplate, dialed in the setup and had a prop blueprinted and custom tuned but it now runs 78 with T-load and two people. Motor looks like a bone stock 200, even with the cover off and everybody in his club has asked him just how much hp he's running, he just points at the 200 decals on the cover. Of course they could ask him how many 200's will turn a 28" raker 6,400 rpm on a 201 with a full load. He still can't run with my Javelin though.

Posted by: Way2slow Posted on: Today at 3:30pm

it now runs 78 with T-load and two people

YIKES!!! That has got to be sweet!!!

Way2Slow want to do 96 150  come on let some tricks out of the bag???  

The boat in the video has a jackplate and a wedge.

It is a d**n nice boat.  Riding in that thing one day makes me sick once I come back to my 18 year old Glasstream.

Sorry Stratosdadri, you have the wrong motor. The 60 degree motors have a very restrictive exhaust that pretty much places a quick limit on the available hp from those motors. They can be built to put out 225 - 245 hp but the expense outweighs the gain. The 3.0 90 degree motor is very easy to get bunches of power from. On a 93 or newer motor, I normally get about 280 hp at 6,000 - 6,200 rpm and 290 lbs of torque at 4,500 from using all factory OEM parts. With after special after market heads and intakes, mine does 314 hp. I have one that puts out 340 hp at 7,300 rpm on pump gass but won't push a heavy bass boat any faster than my 314 hp motor. It will push a Bullet or Allison well into the 100's though. We had a 20 ft Bullet to 113 with out a whole lot of setup and tweaking.

Now if you really want to build a true monstor motor, the 3.3L ficht blocks can be made to make some true monster power. One of these days I'm gonna have to break down and get me one of those blocks to build. I'm talking 340 hp at less than 6,200 rpm and 330 lbs of torgue and

Thanks for the reply, hopefully she never poops, but if she does then it will worked a bit. In my early days it was cars and trucks then came the kids, now the kids want to go fast in the boats. Cams and headers have become jackplates and B&B props. But those blue bottles of funny gas are the same

Y'ALL!

Need to quit this kind of talk so early in the morning!

I gotta go to work

Well maybe my stomach is a little upset

Ouch! My back hurts

Focus son focus, you gotta to work

Atten Catts supervisor

Catt will need to be out of work for up to 10 days. He is under Dr's care.   4hours of fishing twice a day followed by lots of R & R.  3 times if needed. Do not exceed 4 times per day unless supervised by me.

DR StratosDADRI.   BASS MD..  

CAN YOU SAY HEMI?????

The 201 is a very nice ride, must be reading speedo though, 75 is about the max a 201 will run with an HO and running light. Chine walk at 70+ is very common for a fully aired out 201. If the setup is right, some seat time learning to drive it will take care of the chine walk. Even when you are used to it, a true 75 - 80 mph is haullinass.

All of the new 201 with either a 225 or 250 will run 75 from the factory now.  Some are pushing past 80 now.  I have 05 201 with a 225 etec ho, and it will run 77 all day, and I know nothing about setups.  I know a few 201 with 225 etec ho that are at 80.  With more left in them.  The motor for speed is the 250 hammer, they are past 80...

hey way2slow, a friend picked up a blazer 202pro v with a merc 300 on it.  we were running in the low 70's - at 4400 rpm   starts walking horribly, so we never really got it above that.  ;D

Back in the early 80's while in HS, my best freinds dad owned a Champion dealership...and then Ranger when champ QC took a dive. Anyways, his old man would let us take out any boat they had on the used line as long as we bought it back in one peice. At on time they had a 16'8 champ with a 235 rude.....now, you wanna talk about chine walk! No GPS back then so I don't know how fast we had her up to but my buddy had her aired out to the max. He'd spend countless hours down at the ramp changing props and playing with jack plates to squeeeze the last possible drop of speed out of the boats back then....probably not that much nowadays.

My buddy now owns that dearlership...after selling out to Cabelas breifly and giving his Ranger spot to them, he's back to selling Champions.

one guy i fish with runs a 20ft bullet w/ a souped up Merc225. One of the smoothest ride around at 70+. We have ran as fast as 90.  Never scared me or got loose. Just have to start slowing down a good ways from bridges.

That is a sweet looking boat.  Nothing like hitting 70+ on the water

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Back in the early 80's while in HS, my best freinds dad owned a Champion dealership...and then Ranger when champ QC took a dive. Anyways, his old man would let us take out any boat they had on the used line as long as we bought it back in one peice. At on time they had a 16'8 champ with a 235 rude.....now, you wanna talk about chine walk! No GPS back then so I don't know how fast we had her up to but my buddy had her aired out to the max. He'd spend countless hours down at the ramp changing props and playing with jack plates to squeeeze the last possible drop of speed out of the boats back then....probably not that much nowadays.

My buddy now owns that dearlership...after selling out to Cabelas breifly and giving his Ranger spot to them, he's back to selling Champions.

Hmm.. that 168V champ with the 235 sounds like one that's talked about here a few times.

I had a 168 with a Yammie ProV150 on it, Propped right, it was a scary ride at WOT. Easily in the mid 70's.

BTW, go over to Scream and Fly .com and check out the Jasper river run video.

Some awesome high performance boats going very, very fast with some real neck snapping holeshots to boot.  

This is my neighbor's boat, this picture is on 6-Mile

Boat

2005 Liberator Tunnel Hull

Length: 18 Ft   Weight: 550 lbs

Outboard

Mariner S3000

Propshaft-rated Horsepower: 300 (224kw)

Peak Horsepower @ 9000 rpm

Displacement: 153 cu. in. (2507 cc)

Bore: 3.50/89

Stroke: 2.65/67

Gear Ratio: 15:17 IV SSM

Shaft Length: 12 in. (305 mm)

Weight: 275 lb (125kg)

Prop: 5 blade Cleaver 10-1/4 dia./15 Pitch

Top Speed: 125 mph (radar gun)

One of my buddy's has a hull similiar to that with a highly modified Johnson 300.

The front of the boat has a trolling motor and removable chair.

He is definately a sick puppy.

Catt, that boat has a nice long casting deck on each side as well.    

This is my neighbor's boat, this picture is on 6-Mile

Boat

2005 Liberator Tunnel Hull

Length: 18 Ft   Weight: 550 lbs

Outboard

Mariner S3000

Propshaft-rated Horsepower: 300 (224kw)

Peak Horsepower @ 9000 rpm

Displacement: 153 cu. in. (2507 cc)

Bore: 3.50/89

Stroke: 2.65/67

Gear Ratio: 15:17 IV SSM

Shaft Length: 12 in. (305 mm)

Weight: 275 lb (125kg)

Prop: 5 blade Cleaver 10-1/4 dia./15 Pitch

Top Speed: 125 mph (radar gun)

Will it should be fast.... get your boy to post it up on texashotboats.com