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Racing On AND Over Water And Beating EFI!

For the past year PRO-SYSTEMS has been doing some pretty serious Research and development in the Marine racing classes. These classes really abuse powerplants and require some serious work to the carburetion to perform. Fuel injection for the most part in off shore boat racing is proven kind of unreliable and a bit of a hassle so most marine race engine builders use carburetion.

The Planetman boat owned by Tim Ciasulli of Far Hills, NJ is about as extreme as they come in the prop driven ranks. This boat dominated the 2000 Super Boat series and racked up the world record, resetting it to 181 mph on the water. The Planetman boat is powered by some seriously supercharged Sterling Performance built powerplants (248-684-5040) and PRO-SYSTEMS designed Dominator Marine carburetors, this boat not only consumed ridiculous amounts of fuel reroute to its championship it tore up its fair share of water too (see photo).

Jeff (Chief Dyno Operator) at Sterling Performance has always worked with PRO-SYSTEMS on their new programs. Jeff is simple and to the point: "If Pro-Systems carburetors weren't the best, I wouldn't buy them". Jeff also states: You guys have a couple more records and championships with us this year too...but if I told you who they were...I'd have to kill ya' Thanks Jeff the check is in the mail (wink).

Patrick James, President of PRO-SYSTEMS says: We do al ot of dynoing and build a lot of carburetor designs for Sterling Performance to test and race on. A good working relationship with your builder is the key to success. Jeff knows what these engines need to do on the dyno to perform on the water. A good dyno operator or poor dyno analysis can make or break a program. We all learned a lot during this project and we're very proud of our accomplishments as a result of our relationship with Sterling Performance.

Our company does alot of work in the Marine field but this class is probably our greatest challenge. Our R and D in NHRA Pro-Stock has bled over into these classes and the implementation of the learned technology really paid off. Fuel curves and atomization technology is critical in marine applications and although NHRA Pro-Stock carbs won't work on a marine engine for even a moment, the concepts of fuel preparation and signal modifications are key.

Thanks to everyone at Sterling for giving us a championship in our first effort in this class.

Recently our newest design tunnel ram Dominators on an 1100 hp Comp/Eliminator engine out performed EFI. This test performed at the Lukovich Racing Engine facility really proved this new learned technology really works and can even outshine EFI. Contact John at Lukovich racing for details about this session (Lukovichracing.com 248.280.0240) To quote his son Jeff Lukovich (Chief dyno operator at Lukovich racing): "The EFI guy was tearing his hair out, altering injector timing and rail pressures etc..but everytime we would unbolt his EFI system and just bolt the PRO-SYSTEMS carbs on the top of "HIS" EFI manifold, the engine would out accelerate and outperform the EFI everytime".

Note to our customers: We recently moved into a new larger facility to serve you better so change your rolodexes and speed dial settings, our new addy is listed at the front page.

Glad you stopped in and if you have any questions feel free to e-mail or call.

Patrick James