With the right setup, prop and driver I feel sure the boat will run 110. Me personally I'd rather set it up for a quick 100 mph boat
Yep, Bill ran it 104 with a 24p prop. I, like you, have it set up to run 100 mph. On any day, with any load. If I pulled all the tools, oil, seats, fishing gear, etc out of it and ran it with 5 gallons of gas, who knows how fast it would run.
ANY XB2002 is capable of 110 mph. Shook proved that. Like patches said, it takes the right setup, prop and a driver with the right skillset and a big set of balls.
My 99.8 mph run (dont cheat me out of my .2mph Mike, LOL) was fully set up for fishing with seats in, all my gear and a full tank of gas. The only thing it didnt have was the trolling motor, because it had already bit the ghost and I had already taken it off. The trolling battery was in to ballast out the cranking battery. It was on a 10" plate with the propshaft set even with the pad. Raise the prop up to 1/2" above, where it used to be set at for racing and that would probably be good for another 3mph at least.
Again, I dont care to find out the limits of the hull. I have a fishing boat with a very conservative setup that runs 100mph. If someone else has one that runs 110mph, it wont matter on the lakes I boat on. I will be so far ahead of them that by the time they start running me down, we will be out of room.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but with the build I have on this motor, I am making at least as much HP as a stock drag, and while I dont have the overrev of a drag, I have more low end punch. Couple that with a 689 lb hull, and you are basically driving a boat that is going to accellerate like a stock layup XR2001 River racer.
My setup takes advantage of this hulls attributes. Light weight doesnt make it necessarily faster on the big end. In fact, it probably would make it harder to drive. Lightweight makes it quicker. Thats why my biggest props are 26's. If I want to put your eyeballs in the back of your head and still run 100mph, I will put my 22P drag prop on it and spin the crap out of it.