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My 86 flat deck runs 90 on the trailer behind the Escalade ESV

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Originally Posted by osen007 (Post 3264443)

My 86 flat deck runs 90 on the trailer behind the Escalade ESV

:eek:

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Originally Posted by osen007 (Post 3264443)

My 86 flat deck runs 90 on the trailer behind the Escalade ESV

I bet it doesn't stop fast.....

Is there any ambiguity with respect to ownership??

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Originally Posted by offshoredrillin (Post 3264309)

I think its an awesome boat, however It needs a paint job to get away from the stigma of its past.

I gotta disgree. That paint job is the classiest of any Cigarette ever done in my opinion. I've got pics of that boat taken at Lip Ship when it was new. If the price was more realistic (given the current market for such toys/history), I'd be interested.

Kurt

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Originally Posted by osen007 (Post 3264443)

My 86 flat deck runs 90 on the trailer behind the Escalade ESV

Mine will not run 90 on the trailer behind my dually, I'll have a blowout first!:lolhit:

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Originally Posted by UrbanDisturbance (Post 3263999)

Nice boat! I doubt it runs in the mid 90's with 650hp engines. Maybe upper 80's.

Sounds like when I bought my Cigarette. Owner said he went 83mph. I can't get the boat past 72mph. LIED!!!!!

Yeah, that guy LIED to you big time it sounds like. The TS hull is completely different than the straight bottom.

The 525 TS Top Guns will run upper 80's with ease, and some have hit 90. I'm definitely not trying to argue at all, but that boat will definitely run in the low to mid 90's with those Zul 650's.

I can confirm this, because I had the EXACT same boat, drive/cabin setup, & engines in my TS Gun as Rice Hauler does, and mine ran 92-93mph everytime I wanted to do it:

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/7161/p2210073.jpg

I just had some labbed Mercury props on mine, so a nice set of Herings would very likely squeeze a couple of more mph out of it. Those engines actually make 650 on the dyno, but 625 at the prop:

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/7...andlake028.jpg

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Originally Posted by BLee (Post 3264578)

Man that was a nice boat.

So, I'll go ahead and ask... what's the stigma attached to this boat?

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Originally Posted by Shallow Minded (Post 3264828)

So, I'll go ahead and ask... what's the stigma attached to this boat?

It was stolen 3 or 4 years ago. I would not have any problem with it being my boat. :)