Mark, great seeing that you are putting the big power in.....Now if I could get my 38 in the nineties i could get a sticker too.....

Lets talk outdrives for a minute.

We have a fellow here on OSO that is one of the best outdrive guys you will find.

Dick Tryce
aka "Mr. Gadgets"

Dick's Performance Marine
[email protected]
616-403-1006

Dick has been a customer of mine for many years. Most of his outdrives have bearings in them that we supplied and he has always been a real pleasure to work with. I started hearing a lot of really good things about his work when we started attending poker runs up on Lake Erie. A lot of folks up there believe him to be the best set up man in the industry. He has built two pair of drives for me and while Bravo's have their limitations his will give you the best bang for the buck if you simply treat them right.

He will always shoot straight with you and is happy to answer any questions and help you out as needed. I greatly appreciate his advice and he as taught me a lot about drives.

Dick is a wonderful friend and we were honored to have him and his wife Kat join us on a poker run last year and I think he was even happier when we completed the run and his drives did not break! Talk about being under pressure.

Okay here are the rules according to Mr. Gadgets:

1) Don't nail it out of the hole.
2) Once on plane get up to 40+ MPH before getting into it hard.
3) KEEP THE PROPS IN THE WATER.
4) Change the oil regularly and use Royal Purple.

Dick has a beautiful Checkmate that he is building a new 1000 HP motor for just so he can test is ideas and improvements on the outdrives he builds. He is also an IMCO dealer and I hope you will all keep him in mind when you think outdrives.

He has built the outdrives for the fastest Baja at the LOTO shootout for several years now.

I hope you will check in on this thread Dick and say hello to everyone.

Thanks for everything

Mark

Blast from the past...

May 6, 2002

Baja factory Bucyrus, Ohio

This was the first time we saw our boat and they were rigging it.

Okay here are some more shots of the current rigging job. Note where they mounted the trim pumps!

These guys do fantastic work and this is the quality of work they want to do and would have loved to have done at Baja.

Check out this transom.

Again they totally rebuilt the transon assemblies, resealed them, replaced the drain plug, pulled off and resealed the A/C intake and added the water pick ups for the intercoolers.

Kevin raised the holes for the exhaust about 3/4 of an inch cleaned them up and fully glassed them in.

I've owned the boat now for 6+ years and never noticed that the swim platform was not on straight. Well they did and they filed in all the holes and redrilled them so it is correct and even straightened out the swim ladder which was slightly off center also.

Nice work guy!

Tom I think you are close enough that we can round up!

Please tell the wife hello from us.

A few misc shots from the Checkmate factory.

A big Thank You also to Jeff "SteelOutlawed" for getting my swim platform power coated.

It looks GREAT buddy.

Awesome project! Keep the pictures coming!

The wife shot a few pictures of me heading out to Bucyrus last month on the bike to check things out. I had a good friend that we ride with that was also coming but received a bad eye injury the day before and I made the trip by myself. It was nice to learn that Doug also rides a Harley as do many of the folks that work in the plant.

Clayton (Kustom Kolors) and his good buddy Darrell (tiny)broke out their choppers and we hit the big town of Bucyrus that night!