Got a quick race story for ya, the first Jetboat race I ever actually participated in was in Oregon on the Rogue River in 1989, my buddy had this old boat and was determined to race it up the mighty Rogue, pretty much no matter what, he spent the better part of a year prepping the boat, getting all of his safety gear together and making sure everything was "perfect", got down to the wire and tested in the weeks before the race, got to race day and the boat would not run past 1200 RPM, no other problems, just would only idle and die...He was so frustrated he put the boat back on the trailer and simply parked it, I went over to the boat with my other freind and said to him "we cannot let this thing beat us", we looked at everything; tach, wireing, carb., carb linkage, name something, finally I pulled the coil out of the boat and took the one out of my Blazer (GM HEI) bolted it in and the thing took off like it was scared...we made the starting line with a whole minute and a half to spare....we raced several more times together after that, unfortunately, we all grew up, got married, had kids, mortgages, and responsibilities that kept us from risking life and limb, but the stories will last forever, I am seriously trying to get back into the raceing scene again, but on a limited scale...
I guess what I'm trying to say is, and I think Ralph would agree, about half, if not more of the fun/challenge is getting to run in the first place.
The amount of challenges vary; money, technical difficulties, weather and so on, but the way you handle them should stay the same...one at a time.
Sorry to hear about the problems Brad, but what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
GT
