Chris, what an absolutely amazing “refresh,” Remedy looks better than new Im sure! I will most certainly be using a few of these fine details for a reference when the time comes to give Stealin’ Thunder a little attention.(Hopefully sooner than later) Only question I have would be is if you are going to have to mess with the bottom at all with the extra horsepower or can it be dialed in with props just as easily?

I have a few people helping me on this side of things and I think we are going to be able to use props and drive spacers to get to where we need to be. Thank you for the compliment and you should bring Stealin' Thunder down to Kuttawa Cannonball Run this year. It looks like we are going to have quite a few AT's there this year.

Finally everything is together and ready for a shakedown run. Here's a few shots I got after Eddie and Travis finished up setting the indicators and drives.https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...7a1b16eeb9.jpg
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Any new news from the shakedown runs? assuming it has been is the water.

Weather was not up to par for a bit there towards the end of Feb. Earlier this month Eddie ran it on the hose and discovered a bad agi box which would make a few gauges quit working for a split second. Mercury sent the wrong one and we will be getting the new one in a day or so. Also they had the gates wide open on old hickory lake because of water level, so that was pulling trash into the channel. We could've ran with the bad agi box, but didn't want to chance tearing something up by hitting something in the water. Weather and and lake water is looking good for next week. I will be updating this as soon as we get a chance to run it. We are trying out herring, hydromotive and maximus props that are all 5 blade 34 pitch.

Which gauges did you have not working? I notice my oil pressure gauges and I other one that I can recall right now occasionally wont read anything and I believe it throws an alarm on my smartcaft but it instantly clears itself every time. However when I read oil pressure through smartcraft theres never an issue. Wondering if maybe I also have a bad agi unit.

those nose cones are pretty close to the trailer ?

There is about 1 inch of distance between the tip of the nose cone and the trailer. When the 1/2 inch drive spacers were installed it was really close. Also my winch strap is marked so that it sit in the same position every time when loaded. The pics are kind of deceiving on how close it actually is and it's actually plenty of room there if looking in person.

It was the oil pressure gauge, tach for sure and maybe one more. One of my boxes had been replaced already a few years ago. I would say yours is probably the agi box as well, since the alarm clears itself instantly since there is no fault remaining. Also when reading through smartcraft it won't show any drops when it happens, due to it not being read through the agi box. My gauge screen on the garmin had no issues on the gauges when the drops happened.

Great posts in the process of doing some updates myself and its good to see others progress!