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The Whipple 500 hp and 525hp EFI SC kit, which bolts on stock The muscle and power inside Rob Schooping’s Hot to Go Racing

engines and increases power by more than 50 percent from stock Whipple-charged catamaran.
using all factory electronics and safety functions.

in Valencia, CA. that may have been the such as Chief Engines, Potter Performance
Dustin Whipple, Vice President of
most important project that Whipple has and Precision Marine. Today, virtually every Whipple Industries in Fresno, CA.
worked on. Dustin set up a Whipple super- performance engine builder in the marine

charger on a MerCruiser 502 MAG MPI in industry turns to Whipple Superchargers
a Carrera 25’ catamaran. Then he, Teague for supercharger applications. For all of
and Matt Trulio, who was then the editor the 1,000 supercharger kits available to the

at Powerboat magazine, took a ride and marine industry, Dustin does nearly all the
Teague and Trulio were blown away.computer work and is constantly testing

From there, it was word of mouth and on a dynamometer at the Whipple head-
Dustin’s hustle that got his products into quarters in Fresno and real world testing in
boats on the West Coast. In addition to the boats all over the world.

Teague Custom Marine, Dustin Whipple “We spent millions in the last 15 years
approached many other engine builders, building engines, dynos, and testing,”

explaining to them, “I can offer you the says Dustin. “We don’t have a huge staff
computer, injector, and manifolds that as far as sales people and we put all the

will work on all your big block engine money back into the product. The reason
combinations,” explained Dustin. “We we continue in marine is we did a major
gave them the air/fuel solution.”initial investment and now it’s picking

The relationship with Teague Custom back up.”
Marine continued when Bob Teague The best endorsement for Whipple

decided to make his entire model line superchargers is the plethora of custom-
compliant with California Air Resources ers who use their boats every weekend for
Board (CARB) emissions compliance. “It hours at a time at full throttle.

took both of us to get the projects up and “We have a majority of customers
going,” explained Whipple. “They already who have our products on their boat

had a good platform, so we didn’t have and they’ve proven that they can make it
to do too much R and D on the engines from point A to Point B and have plenty of
themselves,” he said.power on demand, yet when you want to

Whipple eventually worked its way into idle around, its like it was stock package.”
the East Coast market with companiessaid Dustin. PRA

ERCHARGERS IS THE PLETHORA OF CUSTOMERS

OR HOURS AT A TIME AT FULL THROTTLE...”

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