Chris Cat Conversion
Chris Cat Conversion
10-05-2007 | 03:07 PM
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From: St Louis/LOTO
The American Offshore 3100 is a lighter layup of a chris cat with bravos.
There was an American Ofshore with Bravos that used to run around 130mph at LOTO. However, he had to move the engines forward and use a short driveshaft.
I think the COG of the design was intended for engines mounted farther forward than a traditional bravo setup, as opposed to the transmission/SSM setup.
The boats are still pretty fast with transmissions and speedmaster for a 25 year old design.
Gary
There was an American Ofshore with Bravos that used to run around 130mph at LOTO. However, he had to move the engines forward and use a short driveshaft.
I think the COG of the design was intended for engines mounted farther forward than a traditional bravo setup, as opposed to the transmission/SSM setup.
The boats are still pretty fast with transmissions and speedmaster for a 25 year old design.
Gary
10-05-2007 | 03:28 PM
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From: Virginia Beach, VA
I was thinking the same way. Leave the engines in the same place and run a jack shaft with boxes & shorties. I have SSM 3's on my Cig now and am starting to worry about getting parts without having to donate a kidney.
