Congrats on getting her wet. looks pretty good in the pics. What are you planning for a windshield? I think it kinda looks pretty bad a$$ old school race boat without one.
Valve covers: Did the fabricated ones not fit with your exhaust?
My choices were wait another 2 weeks for dyno time (in Ohio) or get the engines back. I was anxious to get the boat in the water so I told the guys to just bring them. I'm still on the fence if that was the right thing to do. I really wanted to have a good benchmark of real HP #'s to plot the hp curves to the boat speeds. - at the end of the day I'll enjoy the boat and get a pretty good idea of the power from the speed. there is alot of history with these hulls and drive combinations out there to compare.
As for the valve covers - they would not clear the exhaust with the RHS heads - so the old ones had to go back on - for now. I am making exhaust flange spacers so we can use them.
I live near the Toms River Golf course and am usually around if you want to take a look at the progress.
let me know
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Great PM me a phone number and address I am off for the next week Working on some updates to my 35 as well ... like to ask and see what you did with the bilge.
chris, i,m jim i had the brown 28 that i sold this summer, if you need an original windshield i might know someone who has one, its the short aluminum one.i know your boat had the taller one and my 28 had the tinted plexiglass one. pm me if your interested. i also have transmissions and alot of new parts available.
thanks for the offer - Im planning on building a fairing about 1/2 the height of the high windshield. I mocked one up out of 1/4 plywood at full height and it was way too high. it looked out of proportion with the boat. So I kept cutting it down untill I thought it looked good. I plan on making it out of 1"decolite and then painting it. I also plan on making it removable in case it needs to be changed later.
i may take you up on the trans parts after I see what happeded to my Stbd merctrans.
Hey Chrissbb,
I have a 1980 28ss also And i live here in Towson Maryland. I, grew up in brick nj. I come up a few times a year in the summer . I used to live on the Metedeconk river I know the area well.Maybe next summer I'll drag the boat up and we can cruise together.
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Working on some updates to my 35 as well ... like to ask and see what you did with the bilge.
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