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I have a direct drive twin engine set up shaft to prop's needing only the transom housing & trim cylinder's...
I have a single engine set up shaft to prop with transom housing and trim....
I have two new drives all but the transom housing..

I am keeping all but two drive's they are new and I will sell them for $2000 each they are too clean to ask any thing less.... and I have a friend who wants them he needs cash I just want the money so show me the green and go 78mph with 260 hp.... I will be...

dig the little factory oil tag's, wired to the drives .....

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Originally Posted by tomuchstuff (Post 3093513)

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dose any one other then me think it's strange that 2 of the drives a cast patent pending? kind first gen! or that the 3 props are the exact same size and pitch as the 18ft twin disk test boat? the extra ball is still in a cloth bank bag like the ones banks move cash in like the guy told me...

may not be any thing but odd
I buy 6 drives knowing nothing about the surface drive system and get the right set up for an 18 with the correct props.....

there all new!!!!

Whats ur thought on the tab question above? Thanks for any info

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Originally Posted by JohnnyMarshall (Post 3093442)

would there be a big difference in the 280 or 380 Merc trim tabs? Ive noticed Phil puts on the 380's.

All I know about tabs is that them tab's on "Phil's boats" or the big long tabs look cool as he!!.. I mean just wicked.. the only point i can see to adding a such a larger tab to such a small boat other then the slickness factor is to make the boat act as a larger craft..... I know of much larger heaver off shore boats with smaller tabs, so you can trim a big boat with a smaller tab but more of the bottom is on plain due to how heavy a large boat is so there more water to trim..... if the boat is not heavy it may lift out of the water.... so the dead rise of the hull moves the smaller tab's out of the water at hi speed?? the longer tabs may be so they can still make contact with the water or a larger surface can make contact toward the end of the tab.... or they look cooler.. I have no idea.. have not looked in to it yet...

Can a local come by and check out your efforts? I'll be in the area Fri morn around 8am.

now that the days are longer I tend to work later and skip rush hour. 10:30ish to 7pm.. but only owners can walk in after 6pm but most days I am around..

Was across the street at banyan so I missed you. About to start a deck-off myself so I figured I'd get a look at what I'm in for.

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Originally Posted by handfulz28 (Post 3094201)

Was across the street at banyan so I missed you. About to start a deck-off myself so I figured I'd get a look at what I'm in for.

That's cool.. what are you building?

well just in line for the paint booth... I am going to paint the bottom and bilge and make her one piece to finish the body work on the deck...
I started messing with the window will up load what new soon....

keep us updated with more pictures! Good job on the project so far!

thanks...
I try a post some to night...
I primed the bottom in the paint both to day a gallon of hi build fallowed by wight 545.... I will mover her out for a final blocking before the bottom gets painted with awlgrip.... try to paint the bottom in the next day or so..

The wind screen mod has been just messing with me... I will have to post photos of it in "the looking at the boat stage" I am in now. with the window..