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I bought my first Cig last July, 1989 Cafe Racer. I'm done boating for the season and started refurbish last weekend; pulled the seats. Let's do this :-)

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Nice overhaul Tank. The gauge arrangement is super clean... you have to be happy with the outcome!

How effective are the cav plates?

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Originally Posted by speicher lane (Post 4765569)

Nice overhaul Tank. The gauge arrangement is super clean... you have to be happy with the outcome!

How effective are the cav plates?

i live the gauges and GPS. Love the way they turned out. Super happy. Put heads up drive and tab indicators in the dash so got rid of the stock set up.

i talked about the cab plates on another thread but I’ll say it again. I was FLOORED how well they work and the difference they make. My son in law owns his own shop in havasu and is doing all the work. He threw them on the new drives with out saying anything and when I saw it I was like WTF is up with the “whales tail”? I ran the boat a few weeks ago and put over 300 miles on it. Can’t even explain the difference. Crazy. Planes out right away with zero tab. I can run flat water with tabes you and drives kicked out a bit with zero porpoise. It’s crazy. They’re cheap too. I think like $275 or something a side.

here’s a video of us running a few weeks ago.

boats almost done. Comes out of paint next week. Then gets seadek and a few little things buttoned up and done.

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Originally Posted by Shawnandkathi (Post 4765512)

I’m interested in following your progress. What year is your Cafe. I have it’s sister! Mine is 1989 and all original so if you need pics or measurements let me know.
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She's 1990. Is yours the one I just saw that sold on Facebook recently (iirc with the hawk power) or is there a triplet? And what is that mounted in front of the receiver for your Nav light?

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Originally Posted by cigrocket (Post 4765539)

I'd replace the teak with starboard. Use the teak pieces for a template. really updates the look if you are going down the rabbit hole anyway.

got any pics of that?

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Originally Posted by Shawnandkathi (Post 4765520)

Cabin door roller - Lip-Ship (Not cheap)
Lip-Ship Performance -- Cigarette Racing Team

There's plenty of things im happy to buy from Lipship but that one would be a last resort. I found a guy yesterday who will make custom Delrin rollers for around 8 bucks each. Sent one off today for him to copy, should take a week or two. I will report back and post his details if they work out.

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Originally Posted by blown (Post 4765581)

She's 1990. Is yours the one I just saw that sold on Facebook recently (iirc with the hawk power) or is there a triplet? And what is that mounted in front of the receiver for your Nav light?

Yes it’s the one. I think it’s part of the old Northstar 800x I’ll be digging more into that when I update with a new GPS

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Originally Posted by blown (Post 4765372)

She looks great from 20 feet away but showing her age up close. The paint if I recall correctly was called a champion stripe. Part of me wants to update with the same motif and part wants blue hullsides with a silver stripe, we'll see what wins out eventually..

If you decide to go blue, I've got seven OEM cabin pillows you are welcome to. I'm taking my cafe to a yellow motif.

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