85 Mistress mid summer repower.....:)
 

My 85 Mistress has 460 MArk IV engines with a few small mods, ran a best of 64.8 one time, I wanna see over 70.... anything over 70 will make me happy...

So, I grabbed a buddys old boat that has 565CI 600hp engines, aluminum heads and all the good stuff, made approx. 650 ftlbs waiting on dyno sheets in mail from last owner...TRS boat...

I am going over a few thin gs and making them the way I want them, using my crossovers, exhaust and such.... ran boat home from island yesterday and had engines out by 10PM.... hope to be back in 2 weeks....

last slow drive by..... 60mph flat water....click first pic for slow video, at least shes LOUD... lol

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2 weeks??? wtf??? i have to go to cleveland this weekend to pick my boat up. (slight trailer failure on the way home yesterday) i was hoping to see that thing out and discuss the new mods over a couple silver 12oz'ers

I coulda been done this weekend, but I wanna do some cosmetic stuff while its apart.....

what happened?

broke an axle in cleveland. limped it to Benders shop. he lifted the boat off the trailer for me and took the trailer to get 3 new axles made at his friends shop. should be done by the end of the week. gotta run back out and drag it home

Good luck with the re power. 70 is plenty fast on the Great Lakes 90 percent of the time.

Going to be another week, the builder did not realize Inconel was a good idea, so I ripped them down and I am doing heads real fast, should be putting engines in Sunday if all goes well, be in next weekend I hope!!

Lookin good.... see ya out there soon

Force, the cherry pickers go high enough to get em out of the boat? They jacked all sky high?

No, I use tow motor, but cherry picker almost could.... its a very heavy duty home made one...

Force should hit over 70, cherry picker wouldn't do it when we pulled 502's out. My project is moving slower than I want. Wifes busting my balls about not running this year. Going to look at a 72 magnum sport this Sunday boy she's gonna be pissed but she didn't say what we were going to be running in!!! The stuff we do to keep our better halfs happy.