I built a 23' Rinker about 10 years ago with a 468CI big block with Dart Heads, etc.. made 720 HP on the dyno. The boat when I bought had a bad 454 in it, put in the 468, redid the shafts on the Bravo drive, proped it properly, and went 82MPH on a radar gun. Was a hell of a sleeper, as no one expects a Rinker to run that good!
This is the coolest go fast sleeper boat ever created. There are some very old Glastron employees somewhere, grinning ear to ear. Id take this over a Donzi or a Formula any day. Love it.
A Glastron would be one of the few boats I'd be willing to overpower like that. They were built tough. And had a truly engineered hull shape. Almost like a mini Fountain.
Yer an idiot, Glastron boats had the thinnest sides that spider webbed every time it bumped a dock .....they were not built for durability..... they were built LIGHT WEIGHT
@@1959whitesox Yeah, at those speeds, you're running totally on the step. There's practically no hull in the water. But it's still has a stability for what it's doing. Good hull.
I need to have a whiskey and a cigar with this man... style points to the moon, and you can tell that it actually operates properly. I'd trade a 42' twin screw cigarette for this boat.
I live near a lake in australia, the sound of a v8 boat is very rare now, not only that but high performance two strokes as well. Nearly all outboard 4 stroke now. That old rig sounds glorious.
@@ricksmith4736 Yep. At the bottom. Always has been. Funny. The only thing that’s 76 anymore, is the frame and body. Everything else is aftermarket. My two other vettes cover the coolness factor, though the 76 still wins local shows.
475 hp small block chevy V8, 19 ft boat. That ladies and gentlemen is American engineering at its finest. This, and the triple gun turret of the Iowa class Battleship.
On that last run all it would take is a slight breeze across the water and I'd bet your boat would go airborne and begin flipping end over end. A lot of the boat was actually out of the water.
Funny, I have been on an HCB Estrella 65 with six 600HP V12's and even with all 72 cylinders moving, you can't hear them over the wind noise. Although it does get up and move! 👍🤠
Ski pro once offered a 525 hp small block -volvo duo prop combo for its 21 foot barefoot boat. Took a dart block rhs heads and a 156 blower to get there. There were later versions that were N.A using a dart 416 small block stroker combo ,78mph at 5600 rpm with f5 props .un drivable in more than 1 an a a half foot chop .
I’ve been in a Sea Ray 21ft Pachanga that have a 502 installed in it. It’d do 85mph, at that speed there was nothing but the drive in the water and it would chine walk sideways on flat water. Super fun, but scary too.
The exhaust is electronically controlled to go from open/loud to closed/muffled. The exhaust was open in the video. When closed you hear only a slight rumble. Except for this video I do not run it open in the mornings!
Oh how I love a Glastron SX-190….1984 or 85 I assume in the vid. One of the best there was or has been in its size class. Looks great and loves HP. Pop had one with stock 350. Swapped out to aluminum headers, custom cupped prop, few other minor tweaks, and slight up trim at full throttle and 62/63 mph was no problem and stable. Excellent power for hole shots pulling skiers with great top end to put a few bugs in your teeth. Always fun surprising the Checkmates and small Donzi’s when they realized they couldn’t always win. How I miss that boat.
@@gearsports26 Thanks. Your engine and boat combo is super nice. Did or do you have issues with cooling at top speed? The stock Mercruiser outdrive was a bit problematic with not being able to pickup enough cooling water at top speed, especially with slight up trim to reduce hull drag. Are you running the stock outdrive and/or did you modify to another water pickup method?
Hi @@mic4725, I am running the stock outdrive and the water pressure is pretty low at high speeds. However, I have not seen any cooling issues. This may be partly because the LT1 engine has aluminum heads and reverse cooling so the the heads get the cold lake water first and make maximum use of the available water. Also, I have not run continuous full throttle for more than a few minutes. The boat stability gets a bit sketchy above 65, so I typically punch up to top speed and then slow back down. I am also running a oil cooler plumbed into the water line coming from the outdrive and it keeps the oil temp around 220F at full throttle. I don't see either the oil or water temp creeping up during a run, but then again I don't go miles and miles at top speed.
There was an 18' Glastron on Lake Champlain in the late 80s running similar power. Not sure what his #s were, but he was consistently beating BigBlock Checkmate's and Scarabs!! Sleeper boat !!!
Lol have two glastron's 18ft cvx with a 350 aluminum heads, pop up pistons & bunch of other stuff done to it and nos on it lol and a 23ft glastron carlson, bought both in 87,new, building motor for 23 ft right now.
Thank you! Skiing is its main purpose. It doesn't have the small wake of a tournament ski boat, but the 8 seats and built-in 15 gal ice chest make great family ski days. It can store a barefoot boom, wet-suits, 3 slalom skis, 2 tubes (deflated) and all the ropes, gloves, lotions you need out of sight so everyone has moving around space. The engine makes sure that towing multiple slalom or barefoot skiers is never a problem. Plus it teaches the grand kids what a V8 sounds like and why they should want one.
Cool! reminds me of an old video, a Canadian speed shootout? where some guy has a nitrous SBC running over 100 IIRC. " 124, video called power boat top speed.
Oh yeah!! When I was younger I was a water ski demon. I’ve done 118 mph on skis! I’ve also wiped out at 118 mph. Skipped, rolled, and then flipped for about 300 yards. I came back to consciousness as my friends were pulling me back into the boat. 😮 What a rush!!! I was on one ski,on a full whip and passed the boat just as a small wave caused my ski to tuck under. I was catapulted off the ski and was flying like superman for about a hundred yards before I came down and hit the water. Hard,hard crash. The water is like hitting pavement at that speed, and it hurts. 😮
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Outdrive was the only thing in the water on that 75mph pass. 😂
There's nothing like the sound of a big V8 on the water! I don't know what it is, but it sounds like...victory!
a V-10 or V-12 sound even better! higher RPM and performance!
YES! And a V-16 or V-20 even MORE better!😆 @@lutomson3496
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Sounds like... noise pollution!
Big Block stroked rules...sound is everything,
I built a 23' Rinker about 10 years ago with a 468CI big block with Dart Heads, etc.. made 720 HP on the dyno. The boat when I bought had a bad 454 in it, put in the 468, redid the shafts on the Bravo drive, proped it properly, and went 82MPH on a radar gun. Was a hell of a sleeper, as no one expects a Rinker to run that good!
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@@sharonbraselton4302I’m sure it ate all of it.
Absolutely love this shit, this is my retirement boat ::)))
Had a 45 gallon tank, it would last a day on the water but no more... good thing for a trailer and gas stations!
This is the coolest go fast sleeper boat ever created. There are some very old Glastron employees somewhere, grinning ear to ear. Id take this over a Donzi or a Formula any day. Love it.
A Glastron would be one of the few boats I'd be willing to overpower like that. They were built tough. And had a truly engineered hull shape. Almost like a mini Fountain.
Yer an idiot, Glastron boats had the thinnest sides that spider webbed every time it bumped a dock .....they were not built for durability..... they were built LIGHT WEIGHT
Glaston and Fountain have history. Fountain worked for Glastron early on.
My 1999 20’ glastron does about 58 and tips side to side like this boat does in the end of the video lol
@@1959whitesox Yeah, at those speeds, you're running totally on the step. There's practically no hull in the water. But it's still has a stability for what it's doing. Good hull.
What year ?
Everyone on the lake woke up early that day ! The badge is a really nice touch too.
Reminds me of Live and let die, 007!! "My cousins got the fastest boat in the buyou, Boy!!" Sweet!!
One of the best boat videos on RUclips. Thank you.
Put a smile on my face for sure
This is the kind of content I demand
Nobody hotrods good quality practical boats like this. It's always a low slung sinkomatic Tahiti pos. This is so cool nice job!!!
Love it 👍I put a supercharger on my 351 Cleveland thats in my 95 Mastercraft, she scoots.🍻
What exhaust manifold are you using ?
Hell yes that's one fast mother trucker right there ! Take me for a spin I'll buy the beer lol
Come to central Indiana and we can do it!
I like how it's got the grand dad sleeper look to it .
And somewhere there's a corvette sporting an OMC V6
Not a lot of boat in the water at speed, beautiful sight
I had to revisit this video ! Nice boat and great sound ! 👍
Appeared to be approximately 1.2SF of hull in the water. Slick.
I had the same model 1986 with a 305 Merc 230 hp with a prop change I could get a little over 50 mph this is a beautiful boat love to see more of it
Thanks for your interest, a longer video highlighting the engine build process is here ruclips.net/video/Nt4qrTLOHj4/видео.html
@@gearsports26 I saw it pretty cool what a clean build
@@1pieman Thank you and have a Happy New Year!
I need to have a whiskey and a cigar with this man... style points to the moon, and you can tell that it actually operates properly. I'd trade a 42' twin screw cigarette for this boat.
Wow that a nice boat, she create a wake at idle in forward, love the badges. Really nice clean, fast boat.
Sounds awesome and the glastron looks beautiful. Well done
Thank you!
Sounds absolutely incredible
Love it. Great build.
This Video made me very Happy!
Glastron & Sanger Pickle Forks= 2 of the best for speed hop ups. Sounding great.
Wow, that's nuts. I love it!
I live near a lake in australia, the sound of a v8 boat is very rare now, not only that but high performance two strokes as well. Nearly all outboard 4 stroke now. That old rig sounds glorious.
Nice setup sounds good.
She gets down and boogies that's for sure! Nice job!
Holy cow,that is a monster,you have the sleeper theme interior color wise of course not running, great job.
Awesome boat!
Very nice boat. Those old Glasstron boats were built to run.
LT1 baby... Sounds awesome
As a vette guy, this is so bad ass. Little boat. Big motor. It works. Well done.
A 76 Vette?? At the absolute BOTTOM of the corvette hierarchy.....
@@ricksmith4736 Yep. At the bottom. Always has been. Funny. The only thing that’s 76 anymore, is the frame and body. Everything else is aftermarket. My two other vettes cover the coolness factor, though the 76 still wins local shows.
In my 20's I owned a 16ft Regatta jet boat with the 1970's 454 LS7. The thing was a beast and stupid fun to drive.
That sounds great
Sounds grrrrrrrrreat 🙌🏼
Hull designs from the 80 's rocked.. your Glass is able to fly very stable at speed. just use a little arc in that steering to hold the boat down Kool
Yup! Chine walk looked very controllable
475 hp small block chevy V8, 19 ft boat. That ladies and gentlemen is American engineering at its finest. This, and the triple gun turret of the Iowa class Battleship.
Gave me chills!
Well done sir
Sounded damn good! ❤
On that last run all it would take is a slight breeze across the water and I'd bet your boat would go airborne and begin flipping end over end. A lot of the boat was actually out of the water.
yes it looks like a death trap to me.
So much beige gelcoat! That thing just screams vintage.
Nicely balanced ! 😊
Very nice!
She plays one sweet song.
Sweet flyby sound
Shoe horned! Ya put that big block in a Vega.
1974 my sister's boyfriend had a 19 ft glass Tron with a 455 in it used to take me to Lake of the Ozarks fly baby fly
That sound 👌
That's one badass ride
Thanks!
Funny, I have been on an HCB Estrella 65 with six 600HP V12's and even with all 72 cylinders moving, you can't hear them over the wind noise. Although it does get up and move! 👍🤠
Ski pro once offered a 525 hp small block -volvo duo prop combo for its 21 foot barefoot boat. Took a dart block rhs heads and a 156 blower to get there. There were later versions that were N.A using a dart 416 small block stroker combo ,78mph at 5600 rpm with f5 props .un drivable in more than 1 an a a half foot chop .
luv it ❤!..outstanding !!
Thats AWESOME!
I’ve been in a Sea Ray 21ft Pachanga that have a 502 installed in it.
It’d do 85mph, at that speed there was nothing but the drive in the water and it would chine walk sideways on flat water. Super fun, but scary too.
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Do you think that's the speed limit of the boat ?
@@jesse75 yes it it is
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Yea your neighbors love that shot in the morning! Pure America 😂
The exhaust is electronically controlled to go from open/loud to closed/muffled. The exhaust was open in the video. When closed you hear only a slight rumble. Except for this video I do not run it open in the mornings!
Glastron, the Volvo of the marine world.
Oh how I love a Glastron SX-190….1984 or 85 I assume in the vid. One of the best there was or has been in its size class. Looks great and loves HP. Pop had one with stock 350. Swapped out to aluminum headers, custom cupped prop, few other minor tweaks, and slight up trim at full throttle and 62/63 mph was no problem and stable. Excellent power for hole shots pulling skiers with great top end to put a few bugs in your teeth. Always fun surprising the Checkmates and small Donzi’s when they realized they couldn’t always win. How I miss that boat.
You are correct that this boat is a 1984.
@@gearsports26 Thanks. Your engine and boat combo is super nice. Did or do you have issues with cooling at top speed? The stock Mercruiser outdrive was a bit problematic with not being able to pickup enough cooling water at top speed, especially with slight up trim to reduce hull drag. Are you running the stock outdrive and/or did you modify to another water pickup method?
Hi @@mic4725, I am running the stock outdrive and the water pressure is pretty low at high speeds. However, I have not seen any cooling issues. This may be partly because the LT1 engine has aluminum heads and reverse cooling so the the heads get the cold lake water first and make maximum use of the available water. Also, I have not run continuous full throttle for more than a few minutes. The boat stability gets a bit sketchy above 65, so I typically punch up to top speed and then slow back down. I am also running a oil cooler plumbed into the water line coming from the outdrive and it keeps the oil temp around 220F at full throttle. I don't see either the oil or water temp creeping up during a run, but then again I don't go miles and miles at top speed.
There was an 18' Glastron on Lake Champlain in the late 80s running similar power. Not sure what his #s were, but he was consistently beating BigBlock Checkmate's and Scarabs!! Sleeper boat !!!
Sounds great and similar to my ford 351 in my British built Shakespeare 650 MK2
My brother has a Ls7 powered Malibu, boy does it sound nice at full noise.
thats so badass
It looks like it planes off really nicely at speed! At that camera angle, one can see under nearly the whole boat as it passes!
my 340 BUILT mopar did 600hp @ 9000rpm in my tractor puller in Aus in the 80;s lol
Sweet Jeeeesus that holeshot!
Sweet boat.
So sweet. Lemme buy it
Awsome sounds great
Hooray for the classic glastron
Crazy fast. Wow.
Barely any friction the way she was riding... very sweet
Lol have two glastron's 18ft cvx with a 350 aluminum heads, pop up pistons & bunch of other stuff done to it and nos on it lol and a 23ft glastron carlson, bought both in 87,new, building motor for 23 ft right now.
If a boat smoked unfiltered Camels and put moonshine in its coffee every day, that'd be her.
You leave the keys in it, Roger Moore will jump in it
That is the ultimate family ski boat
Thank you! Skiing is its main purpose. It doesn't have the small wake of a tournament ski boat, but the 8 seats and built-in 15 gal ice chest make great family ski days. It can store a barefoot boom, wet-suits, 3 slalom skis, 2 tubes (deflated) and all the ropes, gloves, lotions you need out of sight so everyone has moving around space. The engine makes sure that towing multiple slalom or barefoot skiers is never a problem. Plus it teaches the grand kids what a V8 sounds like and why they should want one.
Awesome 👍
That sob is almost as fast as my 35hp mercury on a 14 foot tri hull. 😆
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Only thing in the water is the prop.. Love it :)
Thats fkn awesome!!
Well that looks fun...
OHHHH It was an LT1 no wonder it sounded so good!
Super nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That thing is scary fast!
Cool! reminds me of an old video, a Canadian speed shootout? where some guy has a nitrous SBC running over 100 IIRC. " 124, video called power boat top speed.
Dayum! Hope owner has a stash of spare out drives laying around!
Baddeat boat on the lake 🔥
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Very cool
I still remember the sound of the Glastron-Carlson CV21 in the Live and Let Die chase scene.
Thats sweet
Death if tried on anything but dead calmness. The only thing touching the water was the prop.
SWEET!
I never heard of a sleeper boat
AWSOME..!!
Let me get my ski’s…!!
Oh yeah!! When I was younger I was a water ski demon. I’ve done 118 mph on skis! I’ve also wiped out at 118 mph. Skipped, rolled, and then flipped for about 300 yards. I came back to consciousness as my friends were pulling me back into the boat. 😮 What a rush!!! I was on one ski,on a full whip and passed the boat just as a small wave caused my ski to tuck under. I was catapulted off the ski and was flying like superman for about a hundred yards before I came down and hit the water. Hard,hard crash. The water is like hitting pavement at that speed, and it hurts. 😮
Awesome
In the background you can hear the sounds of Darwin rubbing his hands together.
Sounds sweet as honey 🍯
Luv it