I know he will give a great service and give you a personal opinion on what to do and not give you a line of **** , I am really curious as well as every body else to see what he finds , ALLOT !!!!! of us are lurking and waiting to find out . I just want to see how this thing runs out with the power and hull improvements . I know you are very sceptickle on trying another builder which you should be after all that has gone on , this is down right crazy !!! . good luck to you and yours , again keep us informed on the progress . also I know I was supposed to keep it quiet when you pm,d me but I had to call Eddie and tell him to get in the fountain section and just read this story and take it from there .

I cant thank u enough for doing that. My dealings with Eddie have already boosted my confidence. Thanks man...i really appreciate it.

I hope you can recover some of your funds from your past builder.

Yes, thank you Dean for pointing this thread out to me. I absolutely HATE to hear about anyone having to go through this. However, I am happy to be the one chosen to clean it up. There is no doubt in my mind that we can fix it. I am really looking forward to getting the engines.
I will let you guys know what I find after i get a look at the boat and engine rigging. Thanks everyone for the votes of confidence and kind words.
Eddie

Git R Done eddie

You and me both...but I wont hold my breath.

Then you can get rid of those wing nuts on the engine mounts and put nylocks back on so they can stay in for a while !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have read all the negitive posts on here about me and 35 pages and still going on about how they have not gotten to use their boat the last 2 seasons. I built the engines they ran the other 5 seasons even when they had a overheating problem and they would get the port motor so hot you could cook on it but it still ran. Then they had someone else put water pickups on the bottom and another shop put the Imco SCX drives on the boat and the boat use to run about 100- 101 before all that work then it went 90-92 with the blowers spun up to 9-10 #s of boost which created a lot of blow by on a stock 525 block. We freshened the motors in the summer of 2009 they ran the boat 2010 then at the end of the year they burnt 5 pistons. We checked everything and could not find out why it burnt the pistons. We flowed all the injectors, checked the wiring harness, sent the fuel pumps back to have them flowed, checked all the fuel lines to see if they were collasping and found nothing we thought it was the fuel. After talking to Eric they wanted the speed back and wanted to get away from the blow by so we Wrote a couple different est on going back with the stock blocks and going to the Dart block and stroker cranks to build a little more power to get some speed back. We ended up building 2 -540's short blocks and using everything else they had on the 525' and made 970 HP. We could have made more power but the heads are just to small and if we put bigger heads on then the blower is getting to small and if we went with all that then the 4340 eagle crank would be on the edge and this is the budget and estimate we worked with. After we ran the boat the first time and burnt 2 pistons again I had to find the problem and with all the imput here on this thread some had good sajestions and some were rediculus but when I found the pin burnt in the module I knew that was affecting the ignition timing and we put new MSD ignitions in. I rebuilt that engine and did all the labor for free and just charged for the pistons and rings and the gasket set and I also spent a total of 5 days at Reggies working on the boat for free. When I shipped the motor back and we went out to run it I noticed the knock retard was backing the timing up 8 degrees on the Problem motor and I told Reggie not to run over 3500 rpm untill we got back in and found the problem then that's when the Port ECU just quit now we came back in on one motor. We went back to the shop at 6:00 on Friday night with no parts and I had a 11:00 am flight so evn thou we had more problems I was going to get it fixed I called Reggie and told him to check the wire for the knock sencor so we could fix that problem. After talking to a few GM engineers I found out they had a problem with the Mefi 4a ecu's if the fuel pump spun backwards after shutting the key off it could hurt the fuel pump driver so I was going to upgrade both motors to a mefi 4b to solve that problem. I also told them I would like to see a two stage water pump on the engines because the headers were getting so hot I could not put my hand on them and some of the new tailpipes had a gold tint to them. All that boat needs to make it run is 2 mefi 4b's and fix the knock wire on the starboard motor and I would do the 2- stage pumps. I would like to come down to Eddy's shop and run these on the dyno before he takes two running engines apart. I just wanted to tell my side of the story here. I have no problem with Eric, Gavin, Reggie, or Eddy if he wants to try another builder good luck and if Eddy has any questions on what we did or didn't do he can call me anytime I will help to do what ever it takes to see this boat in the water and running over 115 MPH. Tyler

great response , hats off to you and I hope all of you guys get this figured out .

Eddie is on his way to RF.....getting excited again....