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Thanks for the update. :evilb: Boat looks great. You should be proud of yourself. Keep up the good work. :evilb:

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Holly Moses,
Rob, thats gona bee so beauty with the new windshield!!!!!!!!!
You do process I see!! Yes iam thankful for that original-plexus part you have.Dont throw away ANY originalparts before asking me.. PLEASE!!! I'll give u my address soon...
Thanks to you n Barb.
I was buying two 502 Takeouts for my 312..... It was just crap so yesterday I left them at the engine shop.
I have spent like 15K now and I have no yet any good engines.....

Mange

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Rob.......

That looks great, can't wait to see the finished product. Keep up the good work...... :eek:

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Damn...I liked the paint before..can't wait to see her when she's done....Do you bro's do side work?? wanna paint my Scarab III next winter????? :evilb: :drink:

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Yes, Rob does paint work on the side. A friend of Rob's is also a painter and is helping us out with this projec. Rob and Eddie have been painting together for over 6 years and have many years of painting experience between them.

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WOW ! Great job folks ! Can't wait to see ya chuggin up the lagoon this summer !!!!

JM

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Man!!! That's going to be the sweetest looking Stinger around. Better go pick up those Whipples so she'll perform up to her looks.

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Lofty, I'm sure Rob mentioned his wife isn't as excited as he is about the whipples LOL??? Trust me, he's already been talking to me about contacting you when the time comes. Hopefully it can happen next winter.

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Barb,

What engines you got there?

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We have twin 454's with 525hp. Whipples are being talked about because I guess 70 isn't fast enough so we need to do 80 and well, I'm being taught (Rob and I have only been together for a few years) continuously that you can never go too fast LOL.

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I can honestly I am getting better about not making comments such as "why do we need to go that fast?" to my husband any more.

He looks at me as if I have 3 eyes!

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Rob and Barb-
Thanks for stopping by Sunday. It was nice to finally meet you. Thanks for the advice on the boat. Hope you're having as much fun sanding as we are. :D

Blocking is done!! Ready for more paint.

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Too fast!?!?!?! Is there such a thing? Barb, I hope I didn't stress you two out too much? I'm glad you got the panels ok. When I get them back for engraving we'll fix the angled bezel issue.

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Rob,
I am planing to make a "diamond plate" from bb to sb side.
Just to get rid of this ugly "plywood". Then I put back my bat-boxes at bb side.
A drawing in next post if you want the same!!


Mange

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Here you have the drawing.
What do you think?

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Rob should be spraying white tonight or tomorrow. He wants to do the white all at one time, but time isn't permitting that and there's no need to wait 2 days in order to get a full day to do so.

Should have some pics with color next week!!!!

Adam/Beth, don't hesitate to call if you need anything. We're just down the street! It's gonna be a great summer!

Barb

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There is no such thing as too fast Lofty (did I get that right Robster??)

No stress Lofty. Rob's the one stressing because he really, really wants them next year and it looks like he may have to wait 2 years on them:-((

We love our panels. You out did yourself Lofty!! I wished we had gotten your call about getting the pics of the gauges in the panels. We had put everything away and let me tell you, that's a lot of work! It's going to look sweet! Thanks for making our day and week on Tuesday!

Barb

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Mange, Rob's been going right from work to the boat so he hasn't been on OSO much (and neither have I for that fact).

We talked about doing diamond plate last year when we had the motors pulled but just ran out of money and time. I'll have Rob take a look at this sometime over the weekend.

Barb

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Barb,

Think the metal-sheet guy will have my plate ready nxt week. I'll post some pictures to show how it came out..

You do a great progress at your Stinger. Cant wait to see more pics..


Mange

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Mange,
Thats a great idea and will look sweet when its done.I wanted to do that last year but ran out of time an $$$$.
The boat is now all white and all border taping is done finally!!!!!!!!!!!I will throw some pics on as soon as I can.
Mange can you please pm us your address and country so I can send you the plate you need?Lofty did a swweeettt job on the new ones.I cant wait to rig all the new stuff.

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WOO HOO!!!!!!! Finally put some color on the boat last night. Will post pics sometime this weekend of the progress. By then there will more color on it. Should be clearing by Sun or Mon. Tonght the cockpit and control panels get painted (need to get those back to Lofty) and mask for the next set of colors.

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wana see wana see wana see!!!! Have to wait to weekend...

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Mange, we both leave the house by 7:20AM, get home at 5:30PM from work (that's if we don't drive straight to the place where our boat is), change clothes, maybe eat, at the boat by 6:10 or so and get home between 9:30 and 10PM if we're lucky.

I'm lucky we get our teeth brushed everyday!

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Rob -
You had mentioned that you have some extra gauges. I am interested in them if they're still available. Let me know.
Thanks,
Adam
[email protected]

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Adam-

We're painting our control panels now and then have to return them to CA for some final touches. Once we get them back we'll be installing our new gauges so we'll have several gauges available and you're welcome to take a look at which ones you may be able to use. Should be about 3 weeks by the time we are ready to install new gauges. If we forget please call or PM us around that time and we'll drop them off so you can take a look at them.

Barb

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By the way Adam, how's the boat coming along?

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Had a minor base coat color setback, but that's been fixed now. Finally picked up all the graphic colors today. Should start graphics by the weekend.

I had my plate today, fits perfect. I use stock bat-boxes and I'll paint the plate and boxes black. I know everybody tell me it has to be polished. But NO! Black is my choice! Im a little bit concervative..HAHAHAHAHA
So, what do you think?

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OK, we promised some color this weekend so here are a few. Will post a few with the base based with lines and then color. Very happy how it's coming out. Will paint the back sides and transom today and bow will be tomorrow.

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more lines........

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Scheme isn't a secret.....it's just been too late to post pics once we would get home from painting.

Finally, some color..............

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Dash plates came out great! Will clear them today so we can return them to Lofty for final touches. The cockpit is painted and will get pictures of it today.

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The picture does the dashplate no justice. It looks really good with the detailing in the flames.

So, that's it so far. Should be clearing by mid-week.

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Looks great Mange. We really would like to do the same to ours.

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very nice, looking good with those flames

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WOW... :eek: ............it's about time we got to see some pics on that project...Lookin' great, can't wait to see it in person.


Good luck with the final touches..............

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Rob,

You are doing something very sweet over there... thats a h@ll of a job and now we can see some great results.
I Like the style of intakes. thats hardcore!!

New pics nxt week??

Take care

Mange

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Hey Rob,

Were you the guy who was going to come up with some kind of zipper hatch door? I want to change mine, and I think it is the same as yours.

I'm curious if you are the one who mentioned it, and what you idea was.

Thanks!

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Yes fund, we are the ones who are replacing our current cabin door with a zipper door. It's in the process of being done as I type and should be done sometime next week.

I believe what Rob said we were going to have the vinyl edges sewed over an aluminum frame and screw that back onto our existing frame, and place a zipper down the middle that will go from the entire length of the cabin door with snaps on the bottom outside.

When that gets done we'll take some photos and post them as well.

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Thanks Barb.

I am pretty sure that I have the same companionway hatch opening that you guys do. Was formerly the folding door with the lifting top. The last guy who owned my boat took the doors of and you can still put them in place, but they are super heavy. I have been going without a door.

Maybe something like what you guys do would work for me.

Have a good one, thanks for the response.