thanks dude. I won’t get rid of that thing I have no reason to. I’ll have it down there at some point so you can check it out

Well, I NEVER thought it would escalate to this, but we are NOTCHED!

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after going and back and forth on the idea, I figured that IF there was going to be a time, this would be it. So after taking measurements from the Apache next it, we have a notched transom. The new center stringer was almost perfectly made for it.

Got ballzzzz?
bigger than mines!

Wow, okay then ! lol

What are the benefits of adding a notch ?

Good for you !! Not too many would go this far !.... but I will say, my 1992 Bullet with the notch was noticeably faster than my current 1988 Bullet with no notch, with similar power. That "cleaner" water apparently makes a diff. Adding a pair of blowers to the 88' took care of that difference, but the notch works!

You get a longer lever for the propeller to lift the bow.

Pushing the end of the bottom of the boat forward puts the propellers in "less disturbed"(water with air bubbles) water and cuts down on prop slip.

Wow, you have the gas pedal on the floor on this project. Love it.

Kreed,
Generally speaking, is there any loss on ride quality in rough water with a notch? Do you notice any other differences? Just curious.

I would assume the ride quality would be fine, it still has a 24 degree bottom. Right?

Our Cafe Racer had no notch, our two Top Guns had notches. I'll take the notch all day. Ride quality is better I found - less porpoise, more efficient with notch. Of course the Cafe was a bravo boat and the guns were both SSM boats so CJ was different too.

This is a similar effect you get with extension boxes??

Yes

looks awesome Nick! that apache used to be all black and called Shaka...

yessir! That was the boat that was a bow rider for a short period of time.

hey I just shot you a PM for some drive height info.

Hi Nick nice work . I put a notch in my 1985 Kevlar flat deck when put on the ssm no 5 drives on . How big is your notch. I reached out to Phil Lip**** and he advised me to go with a 10 inch notch as opposed to what ever the standard Cig notch was. The boat handles great and jumps up on plane with the 5 drives . If you are going with sixes I imagine the improvements will be even better. Keep up the great work. Rick G .

Thanks Rick! Your thread inspired me a lot about adding the notch. I think you and I may be the only ones who have done it. I mimicked the 41 Apache so I believe the notch was 11” give or take.

Well, can’t believe how well this crew did in about a months time. Hatch done in primer, transom with notch done in primer, bilge prepped and painted. Off to get some holes drilled for drives!

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Very impressive!

That is some impressive work done right there! Especially in only a months' time.

Well.. been a little, but damn are we close now

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Anyone have a set of #6 drives for sale? Or anyone want to buy a set of #5’s and boxes? Didn’t think I’d be ready this soon lol.

Holy **** and I thought I worked fast !!
Love the 6`s and so will you !
Amazing progress.
Keep it up !

What color are you painting the hatch?

black for now
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What hp are you going to put in there?
nice azz by the way !!!🏁🏁

Building some 540s w/ aluminum heads, putting my blowers on them. Probably going to be around 800-850 if I were to guess. Not looking to make crazy power just yet. Over next down season I’d like to build a nice set of EFI motors. But we’ll see.

Also forgot to mention after cutting the holes for the drives we thought it would be stupid not to blueprint the last 5-6ft of the bottom. And good thing we did bc it had a pretty bad “hook”. Don’t have a ton of pictures of that but here she is blocked up.
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Farmer Jon did it first but I also put in a gradual "hook" in the last foot of the boat and it helped quite a bit with hop.
There`s a whole thred about somewhere on here

how big of a hook did you do?

I’m sure that helps with straight bottom but now that I have about an 11” notch it may act differently.

12" I believe.

I think I need to drop my boat off to you ... great work

How is your boat coming Ironman?

Its back in the paint booth at least.... hoping we start putting pieces back on it soon.

Absolutely incredible!! That things gonna look REEEEEEEEAL nice with some 6's hanging off the back!

Bag secured! Need to be gone through and cleaned up but sixes are in hand. Talk about a relief..
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Great catch! Are they dry sump or wet sump?

Dry sump.. nice!

What are the tubes for? Some sort of cooling feature or something? Seen a few boats with these.

Sam,

Prop ventilation during planing. Allows them to slip some to get engine RPMs up. I asked the same question a couple years ago.

Thanks. Brad.