Finally Have My 382!!!!
 

Hello All!

After four weeks of dealing and waiting my father and I finally bought our 382. We picked it up on Saturday and went for a ride down to fort myers beach. The boat is amazing. It needs some cleaning but it will be perfect when I get done. Thanks for all of your help!

Here are a few pictures!

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so what's in there? HP 500? You liked the ride compare to your 311 ?

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She's a real looker. Congrats!

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Sweet!!!!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D

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Is that the one I saw salvaged out of New Orleans ?????

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:D :D :D :D :drink:

Just messin with ya ..... very nice .... seen the 311 out there ???? m

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I was happy with the ride in my 311.... untill I drove the 382. The difference is night and day! places where I had to slow down with the 311 I don't even notice with this one.......

The boat has 502 mpi's not 500 efi's. The boat still ran 67 on GPS with full fuel and three people. Motor upgrades are in the process. Looking for something around 75!

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LMAO! :D

This one was originally in NY and then went to miami a two years ago. Was still the origial owner......

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beautiful boat Don ....

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If you are asking about my old 311, yes I have seen it around. The new owner calls me about once a week to talk about the boat. He is taking very good care of her...........

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Great looking boat.

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Same experience with my move from the 311 to a 382. Noticed this at a GLSCS race running my 311 along with the Formula pace boat. Even though my 311 was faster, the 382 would walk away from me in the rough stuff, so I HAD to get one!

Congradulations on your new boat.

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VERY nice looking ride. Congrats...:drink: :drink:

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Nice choice, love those graphics and you got the SS windshield!

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Nice lookin' ride !! Good luck with her. ERIK

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what year? And what are you going to do to the motors to get the extra 8 MPH?

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It is a 1998 with 502 MPI's. I took a few more pictures today when I was waxing the boat.

As far as gaining 8 mph. I am looking into many things but haven't made any choices yet. Hopefully will make some shortly.

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Darn nice lookin boat :D :D Once I get this cottage sold I am going to buy a 357 or a earlier 382. I have a couple in mind right now

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Sweet ride!! I have a38 PQ with the same power and Im looking for some extra power as well. You might want to check out crockettmarineengines.com Tyler has a 502 MPI upgrade that gets you about 100 to 110 HP for around 6 k.

Were you running in salt or fresh water to get you 68 MPH number?

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I am planning on calling Tyler this week. And When I reached 67 MPH it was in the Gulf on a day that was in the mid 70's and low humidity...........

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FYI, T- 525hp will push that boat 76mph fully loaded.

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Here is more info, thoughts, on the 502 upgrade, I have been mulling it over trying to figure out the best way to get the 500 HP mark, I was convinced the Crockett upgrade was the way to go, but on second thought if you bought a used pair of HP500s and sold your motors you would be about the same money as doing the upgrade. Im looking at it like this, there is a pair of 500s in the classifides for 24k, I got to think your 502s are worth 10 to 12k, so say 11k, now you have 13k plus install in the 500s, and you have "factory" power that I would think make your boat a bit more valuable. And I dont think you would have spent any more money after it was all said and done.
You only have 470 HP not the 525 that Crokcett says you will get, but add some CMI headers and you may creep up to the 500HP mark.

Plus there was a thread, in the general boating section I think, about a guy who had about the same thing done and got only 2 MPH. I think Arizona speed or something like that sold him the upgrade kit, I do know he never had them dynoed, so who knowes how much HP he really got. But I got to tell ya that that tread made me rethink the upgrade deal. I think Im going to lead in the direction of a nice used pair of 500HPs.

Just my 2 cents and in no way am I beating on the people who did the upgrade on the other dudes boat, just telling you what was said. :D

What ever you do keep us in the loop and good luck :drink:

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Thanks for the info!