Just two days ago I was looking for that fraction of a mph to up my P-Ltd Cat record. SAW record time trials are like that I pulled the teflon from my .250 stuffing tube to free the .150 flex just a tiny bit. Picked up less than I needed but there was some rather noisy harmonics coming from the boat during the passes. The law of conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only converted. In this case, the energy from the motor was being converted to the normal amount of heat (helped by icing down the cooling circuit prior to the passes) and NOISE from the driveline harmonics. Put the teflon back in, eliminated the noise/harmonics/energy loss. Finally got the new record btw
Jay is correct (as always) ; when underway the flex has linear force exerted on it that differs from unloaded bench trials - keep that in mind.
2008 NAMBA P-Mono & P-Offshore Nat'l 2-Lap Record Holder; '15 P-Cat, P-Ltd Cat 2-Lap
2009/2010 NAMBA P-Sport Hydro Nat'l 2-Lap Record Holder, '13 SCSTA P-Ltd Cat High Points
'11 NAMBA [P-Ltd] : Mono, Offshore, OPC, Sport Hydro; '06 LSO, '12,'13,'14 P Ltd Cat /Mono
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