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By Eric Colby

Rob Schooping of Hot to Go Racing in
his Whipple-charged cat during the

2013 PRA Alexandria Bay Poker Run.

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et’s play some word-association. When make sure we’re giving you all components as if you UN
I say, “Supercharger for performance bought it from the factory, yet, giving you components R
boats,” what’s the first name that pops that create envy every time someone lifts the hatch.”ER
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into your head? For most people in the go- The key to Whipple’s marine industry success comes P
fast-boat crowd, the name is Whipple.down to having the ability to re-map or re-write the L /
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The reason is simple. No supercharger manufacturer computer programming. Initially Dustin Whipple went N
has worked harder in the last decade to provide a complete to college for marketing, but soon realized a change was FE
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package to upgrade a typical performance boat engine.needed. “I realized that I’d be best suited for working on TE
“We’ll only build something if it can be 100 percent,” our products instead of just selling them,” he said. S
said Dustin Whipple, Vice President of Whipple Industries So Dustin self-taught himself to calibrate the electron- BY
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in Fresno, CA. “When we design a package we want toic control modules (ECMs) on popular high-performanceHO
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