NICE. Looks real good.

The whole setup looks sick!

But I have to say, those fenders hanging down so far, especially in front of the forward axle worries me. If you drop all three axles off of a boat ramp you are going to do some serious damage to the fender. If it were me, I'd have them cut down shorter.

Thanks Brett

[QUOTE=kvogt;3960235]NICE. Looks real good.[/QUOTE
K your boat is sick....a lot of attention to detail, love the surface drives, just a bad ass boat all around, hope to see it in person one day... ]

Syd thanks for comments, the trailers sitting high in the ass end because theres no motors in the boat, hopfully it will level out a bit, I know the ramp very well that I use the whole trailer would have to be under the water before the wheels drop off, not saying it could happen if I take it somewhere else to boat, but I figure I can always cut them down if I have a problem, but I love the slammed look of the trailer, just built a drive guard for it also, I will post pics of that later...

I have been wet sanding, well dry sanding 800gt, 1000gt, 1500gt, 3000gt, the top half all day,fun:lolhit: I want to get the whole boat buffed out this weekend so I can mount the upper half SS hardware and the frame for the windscreen....
Pics of the windscreen frame I made, test fitted last night, than pulled it of this morning so I can wet sand the deck...[ATTACH=CONFIG]504594[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]504595[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]504596[/ATTACH]

Love the Look!!! It's coming out awesome! What's kinda speed does a Mystique run?

Great thread. Love it

Well Lime, Gotcigs has the sistership to mine and he runs 82 with 500efis, Boomer has the other sistership to mine and he has 540efi with some work, I think it makes about 650hp and was running 94mph, my motors are 509s whipple charged AFR335 heads, crane 691 cam about 8.5 to1 comp.ratio 14qt extreme pans oilpans, haven't dynoed yet, so will see what kind of HP[ATTACH=CONFIG]504970[/ATTACH]....here's some pics, before during and now of the motor[ATTACH=CONFIG]504960[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]504961[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]504962[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]504963[/ATTACH]ATTACH=CONFIG]504964[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]504965[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]504966[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]504967[/ATTACHATTACH=CONFIG]50496

How that OL coming???? thanks for the complement...

Wow! What a ton of work and what an awesome job! Nicely done man, nicely done!!

Amazing!!

No Half-90 on the valve covers? :D

Looks great!!!!

that thing is going to rock

Hey you an assume job on your boat too. always reading your thread..

Iced your boat is one of my favorates....also liked your old heading pic, tried to get my wife to hold one of my polished sportmaster shortys, just didn't have the same effect ...
Syd was going to do that, got sick of taping lines and thought I'd get enough flak about the 90and half paint job, I had planned on painting mine that way for over a year and a half, and now 3 of them popped up, 4 with mine and that Fountain in the past 2 months, oh well at least I went with a different color, luv that paint scheme though it made my boat look 5 times longer, and its a easy fix if we have any docking mishaps..

Blew a drive. Frustrated

I hope so K, the boat weight is 7800 dry, I'm thinking at the very least, 800hp a side, I could be wrong... I'm just going off of what I'm reading on here right now from a few other guys that are running whipped 509s, and I know the XR drives might be and issue, but I'm hoping with a lighter boat than a topgun I might be ok....for awhile will see I guess, not only that I got a friend that loves rebuilding drives, his scarab panther runs about 96mph and he runs bravos ones:evilb:...Joe

Pete what drives were you running?? thought you had #6 on there...

Bmax and this one only had 5 hours when an upper bearing took a crap then metal went thru every thing. Not sure if im going to fix this summer yet or not. Im on the comittee for Boyne thunder and this is the 3rd year in a row that Ive not had my boat.

Wow 94 would sure be nice !!! It's awesome man you've got an admirer here!

Thanks man! It's been a long road for me so I know exactly what you are going through!!

Its been a few since I gave an update, Been doing paint touchups and redos, which I hate doing, all I got to say about it is, don't use 3ms double sided quick release foam pad on a Cig, to many 90degree angles on the older ones.....Also been working on mounting my water pickup from Teague, those guys are top notch, Adrian fixed me up and made a custom water pickup for me, its a work of art...then I shortened and put a slight angle, polished and mounted my Teague 450 switchable exhaust tips, ditched the mufflers, was going to go with dry exhaust but Maryland has been on the noise kick the last few years....and I also put the engine flush plate together, and started to put the top row of gauges together till [ATTACH=CONFIG]505356[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]505357[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]505358[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]505359[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]505360[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]505361[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]505362[/ATTACH]I dropped one of the bezels and chipped the sh+t out of it....another paint redo:lolhit: Oh I put a before pic of the stern, notice I got rid of the ski hook:evilb:

I really like seeing build threads like this . . . keep the pictures coming.

Well its been over a month without any photos so here's a few pics of what I've been working on, console and wiring, windscreen, and forward hatches...[ATTACH=CONFIG]508183[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]508184[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]508185[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]508186[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]508187[/ATTACH] Kind of went crazy with the bolts that hold the Plexiglas on my homemade windscreen, oh well it's not going to blow off, I think I'm going to paint the bottom of the plexiglas windscreen yellow, I thought the yellow frame would show up better through the Plexiglas, also the little shocks that hold up the forward hatches lasted one, opening and closing before 3 of them blew out, and they were brand new...got to buy the ones that got the guarantee on them LoL....the motors are ready to get dynoed by someone, just don't who yet, thinking Richie Zul, maybe Nickerson, can anyone recommend some other options or what they think about the 2 I picked, I'm in the Mid Atlantic area, don't mined traveling...so any help would be appreciated...[ATTACH=CONFIG]508188[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]508189[/ATTACH]

http://www.sonnysracingengines.com/ in SW Virginia.

Here's few updates on my project, finally got the cabin and the cockpit, together, had to put a new headliner and side vinyl in the cabin, I also painted all the switch, radio, hatch surrounds to match the outside, the seats and cockpit panels were in great shape just need a good cleaning, I was going to redo the interior but just couldn't justify doing it, like I said they were in great shape, I did recover the hatch pad, and switched the cabin oval with the sun pad oval, the cabin oval was perfect, so now its on the sun pad. Hey she's just a little cover girl cabin and doesn't have all the amenity's of home but think it turned out pretty good.. I still got some wiring to do, stereo, GPS, tachs, and gps speedo...wiring is not my strong point, but i will get it worked out.. Going to try to work on it through out the winter, got some things to do to the motors and drives, the bilge needs the pumps and hoses installed, sea strainers and water lines, fuel lines....come on spring...[ATTACH=CONFIG]511745[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]511746[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]511747[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]511748[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]511749[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]511750[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]511751[/ATTACH]

Looking good Joe!

Thanks Curt...any bites on yours???

Looks GREAT!!!!!

You have an awesome boat!

Nothing serious yet.

Thanks ICDEDPPL, Now your boat is assume....one of my favorite flat decks,

Thanks scippy

Beautiful boat! I really like the yellow.

Awesome work!!!

Thanks a lot for the complement's guys, this project is been going on three years its good to be at the tail end, it just sucks its winter (got snow ferries here today) come on spring.....

Boat looks great, have snow here to. Winterized mine a few weeks ago, winter setting in

Man, what a transformation! That boat could not have fallen into more capable hands! Hope you get to enjoy it next season.

Kurt

Thanks for the kind words Kurt, that means a lot coming from a guy that owns the badest Mystique ever. You have ridden in the my boat before me:lolhit:, I never had the this boat on the water, bought it and took it apart, it has come a long way, hope to use it this coming year, but changed a lot of things, and everyone knows what happens when you start changing things, that usually means a lot of bugs to work out, unless I get real lucky and everything works together without an issue....[ATTACH=CONFIG]512312[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]512313[/ATTACH]

We need to meet up this summer, would like to check out the machine. I am in upstate NY. and I see you are in Penn. Need to bring that up to NYS and stretch her legs out. Going to be a long winter.

Thanks for the invite cigrocket, might just have to do that... I live in SE.Pennsylvaina so I'm 45min from NE Maryland and the Chesapeake bay so hopfully I can stretch her legs out there also:evilb:....Your boat is also super nice, I like the interior, did you have her up sale a few months ago???

That trailer came out amazing.. that must have taken some elbow grease holy cow!

ICDEDPPL, it wasn't to bad, used SOS pads on it first, then buffed it with 3M extra cut compound, than buff it again with mothers Alum polish,..... than to keep up on it, I just use my DA sander with a Black application pad from harbor freight and that liquid mothers polish, apply it with that, than I'll take a micro fiber towel put over the black pad on the DA to take it off and polish it at the same time, comes out like a mirror...

VERY VERY nice job! Excellent Quality & Detail. These boats are worth the effort...The 30's are rare and phenomenal boats...It's always great to see someone with such great passion...