The boat has the best X dim. possible. I may be in the market for some Speedmaster lowers though. Stay tuned :D

This is probly very accurate. I'm sorry If I offended anyone w my comments. I will hopefully be picking this boat up in a week or so. Then I will report to the board how fast it is.

Congrats! Looks like a nice boat.

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I just want to thank Brett @ Perfomanceboatbrokerage.com for doing eveything he did to get me my new boat. A Real Class act stand up guy !!!
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Congrats Chad!!!

Thanks for the business....

Brett
Performance Boat Brokerage

I did it :drink:

Are you painting it or chopping it? Or both?

was a factory shorty already. boat was raced through 2003, then it was sent to the factory for a new windshield and an interior, and a complete rerig for a pleasure boat (2004) I believe this was the sequence from the info I have gathered.

phase 1 is done :cool-smiley-011:

I am going to paint the graphics on the outside this blue also. BUT I need to test drive it first !!. It is ready for the sea trial !!! :D Done workin' on it for a a while !

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That looks really really good. Im looking at a 2000 38 lightning w/500s this week! Maybe I can do something like this! I would change that wheel to match but thats just me

How about this one?

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Chad, it looks great!!!!!!!!!

Its going to be in the 60's here for New Years, don't know about you but I am going for a boat ride!

That makes at least 2 of us !! :lolhit: What are you taking out? The Poker run???

nicely done...

very nice!! i just pulled the windshield frame off my fastech to paint it blue. I hope it turns out this nice. :drink:

Perfect match! I think its just the 5 allen heads to swap right?

Depends on parts. I have an Outerlimits that needs to be water tested and we de-winterized a big cruiser for the holiday weekend. Might push some water with more than one boat!

Happy New Year!

H9ow fast is the outerlimits? :D

I just want to say that this boat was everything Brett @ performance boat brokerage said it was. ( I don't know if you all know this but i boat the boat site un seen and had it deliverd, wired money etc) It is a peferct example of a High Quality performance fountain powerboat ! I could not be happier with the purchase of my new boat.

So If you need a boat Call Brett first !!!

We took it out on San Diego bay, Dodged sail boats, chop, aircraft carries etc.. Then we took it out on the ocean and luanched it. The boat performed flawlessly and vey smoothly.

Then (after lunch) We opened it up on the way back to the trailer. It hangs Really Nice! I think I had the tabs at 3 and the drives at 4 or 5 and we almost hit 90.(According to the tach we were right at 5100 maybe 52.)
We could not really see very far in front of us because the foggy marine layer was thick.. Good thing we did let off because we Luanched off some BIG SH!Trollers at about 70 ...

As it was it was a pretty good first time out. I still need to toe the drives to 1/8, ( they are at 1/4 right now) a trim sincro on the drives might be in order as well. As far as the motors.. The best thing is that the timing is at 28, this means the motors have run at a mild tunning for quite some time. If i set the timing to 30 or even 32 I could see a huge perfomance increase. Plus a little longer at WOT I might see 94ish. But I really think I need a set of labbed 34's. Right now it has hydro 5 blade 32's . and the boat JUMPS! on plane really quick as it is...

Are there any experts on drive heidth? I have one inch spacers on the drives. Doesn't it look like I could remove them and run bigger wheels? I don't mind working to plane it if I get more up top. I gat a poker run comming up. Any input would be greatly apreciated.

Ran 91 on Elsinore today on the rev limiter (5400) and I have not even started timimg and tuning yet. I need some bigger wheels :D

Sounds like the first few outings have been a sucess. Glad all is working out in your favor so far.

Your comments about Brett @ Performance Boat Brokerage sound spot on. I have not purchased from him but a couple years back I did go back and forth with him on a boat he had for sale. I was impressed with his way of doing business.

So far :lolhit:


And , Brett really stays on top of things . Being honest really allows a person to do that.

I got my new drives in the process. 1 is on and working on the other. I put new bearings in the upper. The lowers I have from Dean are mint. I am going up 3 inches !!!

That looks great! I want to do mine, do you have more info on this job? How long it took, pain in the a$$?

Thanks

It took a day to take it off and paint the pieces and a day to reinstall it. I have been a bodyman and painter for 30 years. I would charge a grand to do it. 500 if you could bring me the parts

As much as I love San Deigo, you are 3000 miles from me :lolhit:

I was hoping for some DIY advice

Take it off. Sand the chit out of it w 320 and put it back on :lolhit:

Here is the boats's potential if anyone cares :lolhit:

Right now 94.8 @ 5300 climbing and running out of lake. I eased it up to speed and it took a longer than it use to take...

60 mph 3500
50 mph 3000.

This is bone stock props. If i go up 2 pitches and have labbing done I would loose aprox 100-200 rpms ??? Puting me @ 99 MPH ?? Gonna take some time before I do that ..:lolhit: Right now just happy w the set up I have, and in the future I still have a 95 mph set up that I can fall back on.
I could have never done it w o OSO!! Thanks :D

was actually 89.9 gps

What is the prop pitch you ran?

32 5 bl

[QUOTE=mcprodesign;3650194]Here is the boats's potential if anyone cares :lolhit:

Right now 94.8 @ 5300 climbing and running out of lake. I eased it up to speed and it took a longer than it use to take...

60 mph 3500
50 mph 3000.

This is bone stock props. If i go up 2 pitches and have labbing done I would loose aprox 100-200 rpms ??? Puting me @ 99 MPH ?? Gonna take some time before I do that ..:lolhit: Right now just happy w the set up I have, and in the future I still have a 95 mph set up that I can fall back on.
I could have never done it w o OSO!! Thanks :D[.

Nice #'s. and you still have some left

Nice #'s. and you still have some left[/QUOTE] Thanks, It's not a water ski boat any more..

:lolhit: unless I want to try barefootin' again lol

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Six blades are a bit too much stern lift for getting on plane. So, I had Hering make me a set of 5 Blades.. But, it is too hot now to really test them w/o working my motors too hard.. I't over 100.. So, I will test later. But right now 94.8 stands as the top speed. I have not touched the motors. I think he will go 97.. ( I hope)

Those props look familiar.

Yep, They were perfect just like you said. Hering had no record of repairs. Just kinda hard for my set up to get on plane. The ex boxes you had on your semi stag must have helped it plane . I got within 50 bucks of what I gave you for the props. ( Cheaper than renting a set )