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Cattitude 01-08-2002 03:16 PM

Merlin- can you fax me a sketch roughly to scale and proportional- side view. Just trying to learn from what worked. 501 936 7181. Thanks :)

aTX427 01-08-2002 07:46 PM

Cat, It should be easy to have some extra material added. I would just go to a drive repair shop if you need to. I would test it first. Or you could send it my way, we are having 70+ degrees weather here. :D

Garry 01-08-2002 11:46 PM

I am also very interested in your progress. We had the lavey(27 cat Hp 500EFI Whippled) out and it ran 98 on gps yesterday. I am considering the 2 imco as well. I am also debating on the imco stand off box.I think what we are planning is the stand off box (neutral) with the 2 shorty for a net raising of the x 1 inch. What gear ratio are you running ? Do you know the approx weight of your boat?

Cattitude 01-09-2002 08:00 AM

Garry,
I'm running the 1.36 ratio with a whippled 454mag. I also considered the extension box- it will change your CG which could also hurt you, I'll use spacers if the 2" proves to be too much.

Uncle Toys 01-10-2002 04:15 PM

Cattitude - New equipment sound great and it sounds like your going to pick up a lot of speed! Now you've got something to keep you excited while waiting for boat season.

Jerry May is a very nice guy! I've met him a Eliminator and he was the guy that put the 26"s on my boat at Havasu. Trivia point - his son is the PGA pro, Bob May - the Rockyesq guy who duked it out with Tiger Woods a couple of years ago at the PGA Championship. He's got a 30' Daytona with twin 1,100 hp engines (I believe). Watch from shore as Bob & Jerry did 140mph across the lake (water was like glass) and throwing a monster rooster. Hot Boat had a helicopter chasing them so may we will see some pictures some day.

Couldn't get my speedo to work with the shorters either -going to add a dash GPS. Any suggestions?

Cat & Mice 01-21-2002 01:06 AM

Hey UT, Don't you have a GPS? I don't have a speedo I just use the GPS. The Garmin 168 has a large display and you can make the seedo digits take up half of the screen, it makes the numbers about 1 1/2 inches tall. Works great and easy to retrofit.

Pyle

Uncle Toys 01-23-2002 05:20 PM

Thanks Cat&Mice. I have a hand held GPS, but need something to take up that space that was for the speedo and at my age, big numbers are helpful.

28Eliminator 02-28-2002 08:16 AM

Catitude, It's almost time to test that thing. :D
I'm very interested in your results. Anyone know if this helps on a 25 Eagle XP? A buddy of mine bought a new one last year with 496HO and is going to put a Whipple on it if Dustin ever gets the thing built, but he is also considering a 2" shorty.
As far as my boat, I just talked to Bruce from the board yesterday, and he is sending me a whipple to get my crate moving.;)

Cat, keep us posted!

Cattitude 02-28-2002 11:25 AM

Almost test time
 
If the weather will stay 50ish or better I'll be testing around the 9th. Supposed to snow this weekend! I need to spend a little more time on the install and I'll be ready to go. Sure looks good hanging off the transom!

FRMULTR 03-02-2002 06:56 PM

Uncle, I have the Nordskog indash GPS. Everything works fine with this unit. Big easy to see numbers, top speed recall, top RPM recall and compass readings all function fine. However, a friend of mine at Marine Perfofmance Products, has also installed the Gaffrig/Lovorsi GPS unit and found that one to be nicer because the wiring all plugs into the head unit . Also the sender is white instead of black like mine. Hope this helps you out.:cool: :cool: :cool:


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