Top Gun - 1987
 

A friend of mine bought this
boat last week. What do you folks think about the rigging?

He paid around 48k for the complete boat. A good deal?

Re: Top Gun - 1987
 

seems like a good deal.....if it's running......

Mike

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They gave him a guarantee that the motors and the drivers would be running when he picked up the boat, we were in a hurry when we looked at the boat, not a frenzy hurry but we flew to Denmark from Finland and needed to get on the plane back to Finland the same day.

I exptected the boat beeing in a much worse condition that it was. Everything seemed to be in a good condition, all the hydraulics/electric worked. And the gelcoat/stringers etc was also in a good condition, I got hundred of pics on the boat in all sorts of views. The boat came to St.Tropez new, and was there to 06. 350hours since new I thougt was a utophia when I saw the ad, but after I saw it IRL i belive it.

We will rebuild the cylinderheads this year and for the season 08 we will look at the bottoms of the motors.

If the motors are OK, do you folks think that 70-73mph is possible?

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Thermostat housings are missing, so I assume it's not running.

If it's a sound hull, he has all winter to turn it into a something he'll enjoy.

Good luck. There's a lot of satisfaction in bringing a little older boat back to life.

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They hade the motors "winter conserved", I dont know the english expression for it. :(

Thats was why we couldnt start the engines because they was full of glycol.

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Looks Like A pretty nice boat for the money I own a 38 88 model motors may need cleaned up but looks nice for the year.

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For now I am wondering, is it an Kevlar or Fiberglass boat?

Re: Top Gun - 1987
 

Needs A Steering Wheel.:D :D
Nice Boat.

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Think that was the look for steering wheels back in -87. :D

Re: Top Gun - 1987
 

I wouldnt know.:drink:

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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.

And like a 420 too sans the intakes.
Whats the carb in it. I figure it has Weiand TeamG intakes with a Holley Dominator 4500 flange so that would tell NOT being 420´s or the intakes have been changed from stock 420´s as they had two planes.

Also the block is a Bowtie instead of a GM production one as it´s not possible to build a 540 out of a stock block.. not even a tall deck.
It´s been a few years I dug into a boat with triple 575´s (Cougar 46).

It´s Holley 1050´s on them. And its bowtie block, and the 575´s was built of bowtie blocks.