mr3dman

They were great motors for sure and can def be adapted for use in the boat. I'm just finding it hilarious that they kept a radiator rather than adapt to raw water cooling. Too damn funny. You have to keep the story going...

RT930turbo

Are those radiators or oil coolers? Look a little amall to be for coolant. Still, why not use a marine cooler

Looks like someone spent a ton of time on that project.

cash68

That is the strangest powerplant on a boat I've ever seen. LOL at the idea of dry exhaust that close to flammable things. Jesus christ. Whoever made it didn't know much about boats.

mr3dman

After a closer look the lines go to the tranny

scippy

iTrader: (3)

It's clear the person involved with this build has approched it like a "Survivor" series in rigging.........Just look at the proplusion system, it took some time to figure it out & weld it all together. Crude as it may be, it was much harder to do this "Survivor rigging" then go out and spend money on a marine engine & drives...............either crazy & cheap -or- a pact with the rigging devil!!

senzaspectre

Very interesting, so much for passing a Coast Guard Safty Inspection.....Where exactly did you find this boat and whats the story with it???

h2oboater

From the pic's it looks like the hull had a single engine with a TRS drive. I posted this in a post back in February [Never seen this one but??? This may be one of the boats that was used to haul square grouper. I heard that there were a few of Tom's boats set up with large hatches for hauling that product] after a few conversations with Mr Sheer Terror Bobby said the Signature hulls were a Magnum copy with one change, wider lift strakes. With this modification the hulls would ride higher not looking like they had a load of product in them.

gttdnbman

You guys should have been around before I bought this thing, I amazed at all the things you've caught. I am glad I bought it though I really like the lines and as much as I'd like to find more of them I'm glad its not an average boat. The radiators were for the powerglides witch I did end up getting water coils instead worked better and less battery draw. I am suprised that nobody questioned the trannys-how many boats have Park and 2 gears. Witch became a problem trying to go from reverse to drive, props didnt wanna stop. I found a pair of 327 pacemakers on ebay and bought them, I thought that that would solve my exhaust problem. After I started digging into them I found out that they were actually 283's and that didn't solve my tranny issues. I played around for the next couple of months and could come up with nothing that would be right, just my luck I found a guy with a 260 Power Quest that just had his engine rebuilt the last season and had a hot line on a 525 and XR drive that he wanted bad. I was talking to him that night on the phone and it was like 9 pm and he said where do you live, I told him and he said well I'm less than an hour away I 'll bring my boat to your house and you can here it run. Sure enough about midnight we shook hands and I bought his 98 7.4 MPI and his Bravo 1, engine drive complete. It was a blessing, I went to his shop Loaded everything up and took about a hundred pictures of his empty bilge, and a ton of measurements. So heres were my wife just shakes her head, I gutted the boat so in my barn were the new MPI, the used 283's and the SHO's and trannys and a boat with holes in it, I could tell she had her doubts I tryed to explain but what do you say -- It will work trust me!

cash68

Ha! Sounds like a move in the right direction tho. Good luck and post pics!

Padraig

I had a 1990 SHO. Motors ran great, had lots of fun embarrassing the kids in the Cameros who had no idea. The only bad part was the clutch,,,it was crap.