Zul 700s. Anyone recognize these motors
 

anyone recognize these motors trying to find out the history/ build info on them

thanks. By looking at the paint I’d say they may have been in a gladiator

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...082cb9b0b.jpeg

I don’t remember Zul building 700 with blowers but I can be wrong

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...11b2adbf8.jpeg

There was a purple gladiator for sale recently with supercharged zuls.

Yea I think all the zul 700s were tunnel ram na motors.

That's what I was thinking. 700 seems to small for Zul blowers. Never seen that.

i agree. With the paint on the flame arrestor it leads me to believe they came out of a gladiator, just trying to track where these motors came from and if they are actually zuls, or were they 700 tunnel rams and someone put a blower on them ect

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.off...17639aebee.jpg

I've seen SC900's but even an old thread has tunnels on everything 700hp and under

https://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/...ner-oso-2.html

Richie had a few diff combos for hitting his hp numbers, his tunnel rams were all higher compressions, but most of his blown motors for longevity were a little higher compression and lower 4-5 lb boost.. made them very reliable and still hit the numbers he wanted

yea i just never seen a 700 supercharged

I would tend to think someone just reused the air filter covers

kinda my thoughts

Are the valve covers paint matched to the cleaner,

whole motors black incuding the vc which is another red flag to me that its not a zul motor

Never mind then LOL

the pic that i posted was from a 42x

these motors are in a 42x now and said to be zul 700s

looking at the paint scheme on the arrestors they look to be like most of the glads that had zuls was the only reason i said glad,

Well ****. Someone just put the flame arrestor on those motors.

what year is the 42 ?

It’s a 04

Is your avatar 1st Gun

yes I just sold it. Looking at a 42x now

good luck they are cool boats, ran with a few @ LOTO at the Cig event

Yea. Looking at one with these motors in it and trying to see what they actually are. I don’t believe they are zuls.

what year? After say 2012 or so richie was winding down towards retirement so he wasnt doing tons of engines, so that may be a clue as well

Unless the current owner of the 42 has the paperwork to back up the claim that the engines are Zul's, offer accordingly..... a pair Zul flame arrestor in the "swap shop" is worth what?? but makes a good addition to an engine bay cosmetically.

I may be off base but one of the first things I noticed about the Zul engines ( and I liked) was the tunnel rams - same as the mid/late 80's 700 ( or were they 750hp?) Merc racing engines. They just stand out from a B&M SC

Thanks. Everyone seems to have the same opinion as me. I will see what’s up with them when I look at the boat next week.

Is this an NXT boat ?

No it’s a bravo Xr ITS boat

They look like Gary’s engines in his 42x.

they are. I’m going up to his place next week to look at it. And just looking for where the motors came from since his boat was a 525 whipple boat originally.

That 42x that TNT has is sweet! I believe I saw it in key West poker run weekend.

Just an FYI. I'm not saying the engines are or are not built by Zul. Yes. when he was building all the power for Lip-Ship they were professionally painted matching the boat. But, judging now if the engines are built by Rich strictly by color or lack of paperwork is useless! I have engines built by Rich. Probably done originally a decade ago. Have been freshened a couple of times since including this past summer. My engines are black with valve covers and arrestors as they came out of the box. Not one piece of paperwork this last time. Rich said he did this and that you owe me "X" I said "here ya' go, Zul you are the man, thanks". That was it end, of story. Haha, the guy is still the best.

No I agree. I’m just trying to track the linieage of the motors. As far as I know Ritchie dident do 700 blower motors. If the motor started life as a tunnel ram na motor that someone rebuilt and dropped compression and swapped cams and dropped the blower on it is fine but that’s not a zul motor in my opinion if Ritchie dident do it. It won’t turn me off from the boat just like to know the facts

What did Gary say? He’s a straight shooter. I’ve known him for 20 years. I do understand it’s good to do some due diligence though.

garys been straight with me, and i have no issues with him or the boat, he said we can call the guy he got them from when i got there

just doing my homework,