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Livery tweak for Todd Kelly

Todd Kelly will run a Boatsales livery on his Nissan Supercar at this weekend’s Townsville 400.

Boatsales joins Nissan Motorsport

Boatsales joins Nissan Motorsport

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Todd Kelly, Nissan Motorsports
Todd Kelly, Nissan Motorsports
Boatsales joins Nissan Motorsport

Boatsales, a sister company of Kelly’s primary sponsor carsales.com.au, is an online marketplace for boats.

And that’s right up Kelly’s alley, the Mildura-born driver a keen waterskier.

He even has a ski boat powered by a modified 5.2-litre, V8 Nissan engine.

“It’s a 5.2 litre, so we have just bored it out a little bit more than the race cars,” said Kelly.

“The exhaust system is also slightly different to optimise the RPM we pull on the boat, which is around 8,500. The inlet manifolds are also a little different to get the RPM and the power curve that we want as well, it makes about 720 horsepower.

“But if we played with it a bit more and sorted a few more bits out, we’d be able to get a little bit more out of it than that. We haven’t even optimised the hull yet, we’ve been playing around with propellers and bits and pieces to get a bit more out of it.

“But it basically it does almost 100mph with two skiers, which is pretty competitive for a 5.2 litre engine.”

Kelly has already run Carsales, Bikesales, and Trucksales liveries so far this season.

“Carsales is such a great brand to work with,” added Kelly.

“With everything that Rick [Kelly] and I are into, like earth mowing equipment, caravans or boats, the Carsales brand covers it. We’ve been able to do some really fun things with Carsales, Bikesales, Trucksales and Boatsales this year, so hopefully we can do a lot more.”

 

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