Re: Top Gun - 1987
 

Bump! :D :rolleyes:

Soon we are going to Denmark after the boat, how do we find out if the boat is a Fiberglass/Kevlar/Carbon TG?

You want to look at the hull from the inside. If you can see the "fiberglass" and it is gold in colour it is kevlar. I don´t think it is a Carbon version your friend bought. I saw the old buildsheets on a few boats and spoke to a few people and many of the #3 drive boats also was Kevlar but not all it has to do with HP as well. My old 1989 with #3´s and 2x750HP was a kevlar boat. It would run 80 mph on a good day.

Jesper

It looked like the "fiberglass" was gold-colored, but I will take some pictures tomorrow and post them and hopefully some expert will comment them.

And now another problem, do anyone know how long the k-plane indicator cables are for a Top Gun -87? I tried to look at the ends of them, but i couldnt see the mark that indicated on their length?
In wich end of the cable are they marked?

/Lukas

How do you know its 575's? boat looks good though! gotta love those old tie bars!

By looking at them. :cool:

i just ask because ive seen "575" that were nowhere near 575's but ok. get rid of the flame arestor and show me how you know its a 575... because it has big drives? because of the headers....

Nope, I do trust the seller big time.

understandable... i was just curious. dont like to see people get burned.

Now 350 is normal for a powerboat from 1987 in Europe.
Our own boat is from 1981 with 390hrs and has closed cooling engines.
And then there´s a 1987 Scarab 38KV MV edition that has only 128hrs quite close to both of us. In fact it´s seldom any boat has 1000hrs on the hull, come to think of it I have prolly never seen(=not paid attention to) one either
Are you running the TG already and what did the engines turn out to be, to me they look like 420´s?
Tomorrow I´ll check a Kevlar Scarab that is already in the drink.

They look just like the merc 575's in the merc catalog from back then.