Get your own. :D

Hey TRL..saw your motor come off the truck today...Looks good. Should be in the boat by now. Get ready to make a trip to North Carolina.

:boat::boat:

Given the fact that it is now Mid October, I have made some slight alterations to the build. The paint scheme we are going with is that of the Great Pumpkin. I also have Lil R and the RF crew hanging X Mas lights on the 42. It will be entered in the Washington NC Christmas Day Parade...I am hoping for a first place finish.

After the X Mas festivities we plan on lake testing it on NYE and blowing the engines up again at the stroke of Midnight....this way we can be sure to save as much money in fuel in 2012 as we did this year. :evilb:

Only Joking...I am anxiously awaiting Reggies call to see what speed they got out of it. We probably wont get up there till Mid November now to take it out....or just wait till next spring.

Im sure the RF crew wants it out of their shop...lol.

Motor is bolted in, just have to hook everything up tomorrow & have Tyler go over everything. Hope to be in the water on Friday.

:lolhit: and the year before that...and before that...How long can Sta-Bil stay in a tank without expiring?


:hitit: .......twice

The motors are dialed in on a Sta-Bil tune...its very technical. We like to run 100% Sta-Bil....just in case. :party-smiley-048:

Reggie, let me know how its going bud.

Thanks !

at least you still have a sense of humer !

When you have had the luck I have on this boat over the last 5 years....I have to or Id kill someone.:violent-smiley-021:

Still waiting to hear from Lil R on todays progress....Tyler flew in this morning...praying.

good luck to you again , we want to hear how it works out and would like to see some pics if posable .

I think you'll be fine and happy when it's dialed in!Post some pictures when you get her done!:drink:

Motor is in & hooked up,hope to be in the water by lunch tomorrow.

Update
 

Well....Port side ECU went to $hit..and stbd side distributer module took a dump....back to the drawing board. I bet Lil R is sorry he ever met me. Lol

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Have you ever thought?? You only need one, but they give you more just in case...

My luck...I would end up lighting my self on fire and only coming away with 3rd degree burns.

If any of you have read my old threads...you may remember the time when it actually did catch fire...If I only know then what I know now...lol.

Been reading this thread for a while.
Really sorry to hear how bad of luck you are having with the project. It will eventually all work out.

Thanks man.....it is almost comical at this point.

i feel for you trl .but i also feel for me it's natural for human kind .my boat is sitting next to yours and i was hoping that your boat would be a success so they could start on mine .key west does not look good right now.

Hey TRL what the #@$@%$ is going on down there !!! , I can see where distributors go to hell because of all the moisture but ECU going to hell , that seems strange ? thats the reason I went away from distributors because they look great on the outside but are a mess on the inside in less than a year . I hope they get you going soon , I was excited just waiting to see how it worked out and now this **** !!!!

I honestly dont know wtf is up??!!! I am now being told i need new ECMs....anyone want to buy a boat? Lol. Btw....this is second ECM...just repl stbd one......WTF????!!!!!!!

so let me get this straight, the boat is a 05, you bought the boat in 06 bone stock and ran perfect. You put whipples on and had Crockett rebuild (multiple times) and only a few hours on each build?? each time?? and they keep blowing/melting/exploding/burning???
I may be wrong, but whipples are whipples, they force air. You PAID to have the engines (mulitple times) built to be blower fed, but only get 6 minutes of run time after 5-6-7-10 months of waiting for motors to be built... "you pay to play" but not "pay to pay and pay and pay"
People trailer all over the place to go on poker runs etc, and run their boats balls to the wall for miles, minutes, hours upon end and have zero problems (relatively speaking). You guys can't get out of the no wake zone...

I could care less if my engine builder built me a motor that dyno'd ONCE and then blew up as soon as it got in the boat...and then rebuilt, reinstalled...to see that the other motor won't run longer than 15 minutes...?

An ECM was bought and replaced for the STBD just because there was basically nothing showing why the motors kept blowing up all these years. So after years, you guys yourself decide to buy a ECM on a whim for "insurance"...Then all of a sudden builder/tuner can tell the other one needs replaced after 15 minutes of run time? Did he get new tuning software that shows if an ECM went bad? What is the deal there??? Doesn't make sense...at least to me...at all...


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300s....I wish i cld argue w ur logic....but i cant. The truth of the matter is that in the last 4 yrs the boat has spent more time in Michigan or on the trailer than in the water. Things keep popping up that i am told that i need....after the fact. It wld be nice to of been told that we need these things prior to things always going to $hit. All in all this has been a very negative experience. I know Tyler is trying And im sure he is very frustrated too...but this needs to stop..and i need to get my boat back...and be able to confidently drive it for more than a half of a season without it blowing up again.

Did Reggie invent the excaliber hull ? or did he invent the step bottom ?

Just to clarify...R3 and the entire crew at Real Fast has done an impecible job. Their work and attention to detail is the best i have seen in the industry. Lil R has communicated w me the entire build. I just need Tyler to work all these "bugs" out so we can move on. Again..thanks to Lil R and the guys at RF. U rock!

Wow, TRL, you are learning why I took the car engines out, and I'm going to bolt outboards on the back.

Eventually. Right now, I'm having so much fun on the weekends without spending a mortgage payment at the pump.

I dont believe Reggie would lay claim to "inventing" the stepped hull. But I do believe one can safely state that he was a forerunner in the Stepped Hull design, and the associated performance, as it stands today. Stepped hulls have been around for eons..Reggie just put the finishing touches on them...and made them FAST FAST FAST...LOL.

Once the motors are running, which I doubt out of TC your going to have all kinds of $hit with the IMCO's...
$40K and I'll even wipe the footprint off the stbd motor.

Throw in a pair of #6's and Tranny and you got a deal....:lolhit:

http://www.teamshogren.com/pre-owned...lightning.html

Even better...trade it in for this beast.

There you have it! The reason these boats still draw the big dollar. Stock power with hot rod performance, any time, every time. They run, run hard, don't break, then they go out and do it again.

Yo Ragged. People build HP ( Blown) stuff all the time that runs til the bearings wear out :D

TRL 505. I hope this thing gets rolling in the right direction !!! Sorry to jack your thread

Why didn't you go with ASD#7M's or #8's in the beginning? Lighter than the #6's, faster than the IMCO's and much stronger too. Arnies has been mounted on Fountains before, so setup should not be a problem.
Just curious.

Good luck with it.

Once they get the boat right you'll be happy :drink:I can't wait to hear the speed increase!

The problem isnt in the drives....never was.

Back to the ECUs , whats going on there , hope you get this thing rippin very soon .

It will be... I think is what he meant.

Working on a "solution" as we speak....

I should have it figured out in the next day or so....stay tuned (no pun intended) :lolhit:

We will just have to wait and see....

One thing at a time at this point.

Yup, no point in throwing money at transmissions, when the engines blow that fast... :lolhit:
...sorry, couldn't resist.

Jokes aside, all the best!