It takes her a minute to get up on plane, definitely not as quick as a new boat, but she gets there... I haven't seen another chris cat so I don't know how it compares to any others but I don't mind. As for interior a guy here in town that did my role bar boat is probably goin to do it for me. Shop is called No Coast Customs the guy's name is Eli. I have known him for a while and he use to be a fellow boater as well, but just sold his Donzi this year.

Bigo: Thanks, I have the spacers in mine and debating taking them out. How much Hp do you have. I have 454's bored to 468, put new heads and cams in them and dyno at 475.

Wannabe

I am running 2's without spacers as well, about 625hp a side. Comes up on plane at about 3500-3800 rpm and then bites pretty hard.

My Chris Cat with ASD8 (drives down) comes up nice ~3000with low throttle no need to push it..

Our old Chris cat with speedie II's took a long time to plane out. Not sure if there were spacers or not.

Wannabe, Try giving Dave at XT-Innovators a call. He did the upgrade to my cockpit and cabin. Nice work.

Bigo, Keep up the great work. Keep the pics coming. Like seeing others doing their Cat restoration projects.

Will do! Its gonna be kind of slow going, the next couple months I have a wedding I am part of a trip to Arizona and a vacation to puerto Rico. I'm still hoping to have her back on the water by the 4th of July.

Well what is interesting is mine is a first year cat and my drives appear to be mounted much higher on the transom than Bigo's. Looking at his pics and mine my current X dimension is only a little lower with the spacers in. Taking them out might put me a too high an X and make planing tough. Right now I trim in and they bite around 3000-3500 and can hold a plane all the way down to 30 mph- it's a wet ride at that speed.

Wannabe

Thats about how mine is. I got to spin them loose and hold it at about 3500 and then as she starts to come up and bite i back her off. I am running bone stock mark IV 502's so I think I am somewhere aroune the 385hp mark, but I could be wrong. I can't remember what they were rated at.

We installed the spacers in your #2's Wannabe. If you want to take them out, we have the hardware you will need. However, it's not going to work very well unless you go to a much larger diameter prop. (then you can start replacing propshafts and/or bearings), or put trim tabs/tunnel tab on the boat. Once on plane without spacers, the boat will work fine except the "Linder" hop will be somewhat more noticable with the reduced bow lift.