Velocity Vector

iTrader: (4)

There is an 1987 on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/39-DON-ARONO...wer_Motorboats

CIG3

Type "F" is good for trans fluid.

dereknkathy

generally, for switches, you can pull one out of the dash and google the numbers on it to find the manufacturer-dist for them.

cig92

i know your boat very well, it's a cool piece. good luck with it but i highly urge you to open your motors up!!! i went through the motor building process with this man (ROB) way too many times (5 times) 10 motors. kept giving him the benefit and kept getting it right up the ol pooper. he was so convincing that i truly believed him every time he had and excuse and said he was going to make good on them. as my boat sat there for months at a time in the middle of the summer and he never touched it i would end up pulling the motors myself with a friend and giving rob the long blocks and he still couldn't get things moving. (lost 2 summers) i could tell you stories for days but i will spare you the saga. i will say that when i gave him a hand full of cash and he said i needed stud girdles and top of the line rhoads lifters i got nothing of the sort when i went to pick up my motor next spring and i was like wtf, he said i didn't need them. lol i also got my credit card charged without my approval along with 7 of my other friends that were doing business with ROB. one of the cards was hit with a 12k charge and the gentleman that owned the card let him pay it back over the course of 6-8 months. there is a lot more to this story but the bottom line here is the fact that his shop HTG is now a pizzeria. i know someone will chime in a say that there are two sides to every story but that dose not apply here. i will be happy to post pictures of the parts that did not belong in my motors and the used welded oil pump, three different kinds of head bolts (all used) etc etc etc TEAR THEM DOWN

88bullet

iTrader: (1)

i would definitely pull those motors out and tear them down. that boat had major cooling issues that never got straightened out when it was at HTG. it melted some motors while it was here. as for Cig92's motors i was the poor bastard that pulled the motors an ungodly amount of times. 90% of the motors built barely made it 15 min. here are a couple pics. after thousands of dollars and no lube we changed builders and the boat has never run better. [ATTACH=CONFIG]515638[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]515639[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]515640[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]515641[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]515642[/ATTACH]

cig92

that's just the tip of it!!!!!!

ahlenius

Thanks Welfare got that and have some on the way!!

ahlenius

Ouch!!! Thats exactly why i did not run the boat! Ok I understand you feel that you were dealt a bad hand and it sucks! The fellow i bought the boat from bought all the parts himself and Rob put it together. and i know at considerable cost. I was advised of the problems and Rob told me how it needed to be fixed. I need to reserve judgement on the guy as he did go out of his way to let me see the engines run in sub zero temps in feb, and they sounded good. He did get the parts to me to redo the cooling system eventually. So with that said going forward i would greatly accept any ideas on how to revamp the cooling system that incorporated the pickups from the old TRS drives for naturally aspirated engines to the now super charged ones Thanks for the heads up i will proceed with caution!!

ahlenius

Also 88bullet please let me know what motors were melted the original ones? And exactly how badly was the new right(starboard) engine overheated? and how was it fixed?I can tell you that engines cooling system seawater valve(starboard) was seized half way closed. The owner was not so mechanically inclined but i would like to hear what you know its important thanks if need be E-mail or PM thanks

frickstyle

i don't think it's supposed to look like that!