Nice looking 242

Your 311 is awesome ...... Great colours ..... Have you had this since new?

hey twins,
No, i picked secret formula up at the beginning of boating season this year with only 250 hours...probably paid too much. I took it out three times and hydrolocked a motor due to ingestion through the stock manifolds....that's when i bought the imco's. They had to install a whole new block because i spun a main so bad in the process, so after a month or two i got it back and it stayed together for 1 hour and broke a lifter in half! Another couple weeks and i get her back and have put 15 hrs on the new motor so far in the last month. Love the boat, i want to ditch the silent thunder and put an extreme marine platform with new tips on some time. Next step is stereo and dash upgrade, i'll keep posting as i upgrade. This winter i'm gonna redo the sunpad, i'm thinking all white. I would like to see some other pics of SR-1's with rodone pads.
Tyler

Here are some pics of my 38 race boat in St Clair

Don't ditch the Silent Thunder make it "Thru Thnder" About 400 bucks and about 5hrs.

Ok you got my attention .... how and what do you mean? I like the look of the platform and the fact it is moderiatly quiet when idleing .....
Tell me more ..... lol

Jeff

I too agree dont ditch the platform, do some mods such as CB's or a cpl of the other guys also have done a few thing to make it grumble more, but only when on plane, My opinion is to make the hatch original, a gentlemen locallly redid his all white and it just simply looks to plane, the colors really set it off to me, but its your boat and its a Formula so it will look good no matter whatif thats the 311 that I'm thining it is it was for sale for a long time

that it is 242
i think it sat for two years with major engine trouble til i bought it. i bought it from a marina that warrantied all the problems i've had so far this year so i can't be too upset about the downtime. what do you mean when you say mods like cb's???? i did gut the baffles on the silent thunder but i think the whole open box still sounds a little muffled.

Have you listened to it from behind the boat while it's running? Do you still have the tips/flappers on? I trimmed out the baffles and haven't reinstalled the tips & flappers. While I could definitely tell a difference from inside the boat, I never thought it was that much louder. UNTIL I backed in somewhere. Definitely a difference. My boating buddies also tell me how "loud" it is...last Sunday I entered the lake where we hang out. All idle...they were at least half mile away, with boats in between, and they heard me, then spotted me, and called me before I could spot them.
I still need to find somebody I trust running my boat so I can listen to it run

Here is the thread Rambunctious did on his 272
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...t=THRU-THUNDER

And my design that i copyed from Ram

http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...st+box+upgrade