Oops, went shopping 91 Top Gun
 

Well I went shopping as some know, 91 top gun, 555ci 620HP with Konrads.. boat is nice and sure was fun tonight!! Finally got the top gun I been saving for... took a while but she's all mine! Going to put my 700 ish hp 540's in it and see how she runs...! Saw 72@5000 gonna do the tlc she needs and enjoy it!

Happy for you Tim she looks really nice!........Cabin is a real upgrade!.....Congratulations!

Congratulations, nice Trailer also. Enjoy

I've only seen some of the posts with your adventure, but glad everything worked out for you in the end. Congrats man.

So the cat is now out of the bag! Congrats on your new gun! Should be a lot of fun!
what is your expected speed with your 540 in ?

wooohoooo !!!!

jealous...one of those will be my next boat congrats!!

Cool, saw Ronnie's videos on IG, how's she handle the rough stuff compared to the Mistress? (Looked a little bow happy, only complaint I have. Although I seem to have a better handle on how they like to run now, they are certainly a "drivers" boat).

Good Luck! Harvey's old boat. It originally came from my Neck of the woods in Upstate NY. I sold Harvey a Transmission and a Replacement TRS drive before he did the TRS conversion to Konrads. He did the conversion shortly after I did mine on the Old Mistress. If those were Harvey's original 555CI motors, they were nice pieces and ran great with Top Dollar Parts. Just for my Info, why are you removing that power?

Congrats! Hopefully this boat/build stays drama free.

Congrats Tim, looks nice! enjoy!

Congrats! I remember when that boat was painted (there's pics floating around OSO somewhere). You're gonna love that cabin! I've always said, best cabin in a performance boat in its class.

yes for sure different I can't even compare the 2, totally different animals, lake was good 3-5's or so yesterday fordtn5 minutes I owned boat we went out in it after I said "we will stay in beeakwall today while I learn boat" ya ok.... doing 45 or so it was bouncy haha ten the second trip hour later I ran 60-65 and it was great! Mistress busts through the waves this one rides on top and will cone out of the water, those 380 planes are amazing ice I started to see what it liked...

I would love to see what it used to be, I know it came from New York, there's people that say it went under at a dock years ago, no proof yet nor do I really care, boat is great and will be better as I fix things up it needs!

my engines make some more power, and built by me and after all the bs and $ I'm keeping them lol

I thought about keeping his and adding boost, Frickstyle and I decided that's a bad idea the konrads won't take what I would do then.. there are great parts in these engines but mine do also.

god me too!! I'm over it all!

I welcome any info or threads about the boat before Harvey had it... I researched and read everything he ever posted about it after he got it..(Harvey) super nice guy to deal with it was very cool to dr

I absolutely love the cabin it's so huge compared to the mistress

Yeah, by drivers boat I mean that it takes a lot of input to make it happy, and I have to throttle with my setup to keep it from kiting if you want to run with the tabs loosened up. I remember riding on your Mistress, quite different. This hull runs best over 70mph, water permitting, anything under that takes a lot of adjustment and porpoise. How did those engines run? 72 you said? Wonder what the diff will be with your engines, how much HP diff? Those are bigger cubes, right? Cam change on current (j/k) How much did the Mistress weigh? What pitch props on the Konrads and what rpm did it pull to top end? Just curious as I was working on that drive setup before I changed everything.

I was going to run 850-900hp thru them w/572s & a 420 MegeBlower. You could add centrifugal and go up to 850-875? Konrads might run a little faster than SSM? Less frictional losses/weight?

for sure was better at 65 all day long... mistress is 12,800 on a Myco steel trailer no fuel, Myco says trailer is 2000 so who knows I would say mistress is 10,500 no fuel with gear on it.

This ran 72@4900 yesterday with 28 Bravo1 Harvey said best speed was 26 bravo1 75.8@5200 ever but propped to cruise it around

Yeah, was going to say you're in between a 26 & 28. Pretty good speeds for not running a higher RPM, if you could get to to 5500 RPM..... 80? .

I would think dialed in I will see 77-78... maybe 80 on the right day

it sure I will think 77-78? Maybe 80 dialed in. No clue to be honest I didn't buy it to be fast, but for the purpose of overnighting every weekend

any clue on thread location? Year?

Cut the cabin out of it, speeds them up a bit.

Lol bought for cabin lol

She's PERDY😎

I know of someone who has a leftover cabin, if you want another one.

Congrats ! ! !

what do you mean

I remember the boat, and it did sink at one point in 2005/2006. The boat was acquired by Mike Fenton, a close friend of Dick Congel of RC congel (used to be a huge dealer here) Mike used to buy repo and insurance boats to flip. I watched that boat dry indoors with fans and drip methods for months the summer of 2006 at Congels. The sunken power was scrapped and it was converted to 502 mpis mated to the stock trs drives. It was cleaned and ready to go and was sold by Chris Martin from the Boat House in Constantia NY in the spring of 2007.

I don't recall. But there's info on it floating around.

That was before it was painted correct?

Just being a smartass.

Baronmarine on here cut the cabin all out of his Topgun and glassed in some frames. Bow sits about 10 inches higher at rest now and the boat doesn't rattle like it was starting to do after a few years of him beating his Gun like it owed him money.

Saw 96 this summer in it with 900s and #3As but it is propped for rough water acceleration and not topspeed, He doesn't like to go out unless it is 3-4s minimum.

not if it sunk.... thank you, thank you... be here all week, dont forget to tip the waitresses... try the veal...

no, I saw it drying with that paint. However I don't know if Mike was the one that had it painted maybe before it was completely dry.

I remember the guys in the service department saying they were trying to avoid drilling relief holes in the boat and that's why it was drying inside. Had fans in the cabin but when I saw it the boat was completely assembled

Thx, I knew someone would actually know the story, I bought it knowing the past and price was very right for mew to do so, I had a nice conversation with GlassDave before purchase, so he made me feel ok, I spent 2.5 hours going over the boat, found some things but nothing to keep me from buying it, especially with the engines and drives that it has, if I should find something I am not ok with the boat can either be taken to Dave (local) or I part it and find another, had it out on lake yesterday in some 3-5's did just fine, besides damn cabin door rattling I was told to get used to that in any Gun..

Sounds like me lol

A quick peek at cabin you can tell, I will have that redone later anyway if it's a keeper, passed a survey in 09 and recent showed 15% in a couple spots this May, Dave said don't sweat it, I did my own survey... I looked in places a surveyor does not, I am into a nice boat cheap, I can afford to make it nicer over the next few years if I chose, with a nice cleaning it shows very well.