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Old 12-28-2008 | 07:49 PM
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The 32's with 525SCs were fast fast fast!!
Those engines loved a little air..so when Thunder Roy and us would crack the rear seat back an inch or two look out!
and they sounded like a steady stream of cats going through a fan..they SCREEEAAAMED!!
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Old 12-29-2008 | 07:20 AM
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and they sounded like a steady stream of cats going through a fan..they SCREEEAAAMED!!
The line of the month.
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Old 12-29-2008 | 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by chuckbeecher
The 32's with 525SCs were fast fast fast!!
Those engines loved a little air..so when Thunder Roy and us would crack the rear seat back an inch or two look out!
and they sounded like a steady stream of cats going through a fan..they SCREEEAAAMED!!
GPS SPEEDS???
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Old 12-29-2008 | 01:54 PM
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Originally Posted by rssteiny
GPS SPEEDS???

The GPS recall on one of them I saw adverstised with 525SC's and stellings boxes showed 86mph.
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Old 12-30-2008 | 03:49 PM
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Originally Posted by rssteiny
GPS SPEEDS???
86.7 on the hand held gps. Not bad for an 8k lb. boat with those little ol' 454's. Oh!! and those boats had wood in
them (floors, keels and furniture)
by the way that was with full fuel..2 men..2 women
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Old 12-30-2008 | 06:09 PM
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Originally Posted by chuckbeecher
86.7 on the hand held gps. Not bad for an 8k lb. boat with those little ol' 454's. Oh!! and those boats had wood in
them (floors, keels and furniture)
by the way that was with full fuel..2 men..2 women
Yeah, but you were under 200 back then and they ran a little faster despite the wood.
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Old 12-30-2008 | 06:12 PM
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That is the same speeds i got with my 32 thunder w/ 500hps the first couple years i had the boat, now i get 84 gps with 430 hrs on the motors. we will see this spring after i refresh and pony up a bit to 575 or 600 hp. hope to see 90
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Old 12-30-2008 | 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by rssteiny
That is the same speeds i got with my 32 thunder w/ 500hps the first couple years i had the boat, now i get 84 gps with 430 hrs on the motors. we will see this spring after i refresh and pony up a bit to 575 or 600 hp. hope to see 90
Back when we had the 525 SCs we also had low X-dimensions and 3 bladed Mirages.

Your "X" is to the moon with Bravos.

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Old 12-31-2008 | 09:12 AM
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Originally Posted by ActiveThunder
Yeah, but you were under 200 back then and they ran a little faster despite the wood.
All of the above is true!!
Thank you fellow older one for reminding me of that.
If I recall you seemed taller back then also!!!

I've played with most of the brands and the 32 Thunder has to be the BEST all around boat in the 29-38' range to date.
It would do anything any Cig, Beakboat,Sonic, Hustler ,Outerlimits, Sutphen or Apache would do.
Clark, Roy, Gerald, Barbie and I have put them to the test rubrail to rubrail..and that's a fact jack!!
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