Live January 15! Factory Billet Video, II—186 MPH And On Time For A Birthday Party
Things weren’t looking great for the Factory Billet team of Jim Schultz and Mike Faucher after their first pass at the 2023 Lake of the Ozarks Shootout. Their Saturday run in the 51-foot Outerlimits V-bottom on the three-quarter-mile course produced an unimpressive—at least for them—162-mph result. They’d gone four miles per hour faster at the 2022 event.
Airing January 15, the second Factory Billet video produced by Scrapyard Media is every bit as entertaining as the first. Photo by Pete Boden copyright Shoot 2 Thrill Pix.
The turbocharger waste-gate demons that plagued them weren’t ready to surrender. Their 170-mile goal for the Central Missouri seemed out of reach, at least as Schultz and Faucher scrambled for a solution on Saturday afternoon and evening.
Then came their remarkable 184-mph pass on Sunday. The result was as mind-bending for the dynamic cockpit duo as it was fortuitous for the Scrapyard Media team capturing and producing a video on the effort in collaboration with speedonthewater.com. It pretty much begged for a “Part II. And Schultz immediately committed to just that after watching the first video, which has been viewed more than 425,000 times on the Speed On The Water YouTube channel.
No longer for sale as Schultz had planned if he and Faucher reached 170 mph, Factory Billet returned to the Shootout in 2024 to attempt to raise the V-bottom speed-record bar. But there was a catch—Schultz had one chance as he had to be in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for a far more important event that afternoon.
His now five-year-old daughter’s birthday party. Missing princesses and mermaids cavorting around a swimming pool was not an option.
Led by Jim Schultz (far right), the Factory Billet team continues to amazing high-performance boating fans. Photo by Scrapyard media.
On their first and only pass, Schultz and Faucher bumped up their record to 186 mph. By the time the crew had put the 51-footer back on trailer in a blinding rainstorm, Schultz was on his way back to South Florida.
It’s a great story, and once again the Scrapyard Media team, led by Bobby Boyd this time around, nailed it in its 20-plus-minute video. But the video also takes viewers behind the scenes and down memory lane with the Factory Billet.
Because the story is a lot more than just two brave guys with the stones required to push a 6,000-plus-hp V-bottom to its top-speed limits. It took years of focused, consistent and expensive effort to get there. The building blocks, as you’ll learn from the video, were endless.
See for yourself on Wednesday, January 15.
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