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32 Fever Hull vibration
I have a 98 32' Fever, and it has the typical vibration issue when idling out. It seems like it's a lot more pronunced in my boat than others that I've seen and been told about, you can hear it several hundered yards away, it sounds like I have 15 subwoofers in the boat all stuck on one note. It doesn't bother me too much when idling out, I can usually drop the tabs and give it a timy bit more stick, and it gets the swim platfoprm to break the seal with the surface of the water. The problem is idling when I'm at the dock or rafted up, it is bad enough that it gets water completely up the sunpad. Yes, I know it's a boat, and we are at the lake, but I only took it out twice at the end of the season, and each time someone slipped on the wet sunpad/swim platform crossing my boat at the tie up. I'm worried someone is going to break their face and get a lawyer.
After all that long winded explaination, here's my question....has anyone put aftermarket aluminium exhaust on one of these with big blocks, and did it make enough difference in how it sat in the water to alleviate the issue? I have seen threads on here about adding weight to the front, so I did an experiment with some buddies, and it took 3 of us, all right around 200 lbs apiece, standing on the beak to get it to come out of the water enough to make it stop. That's a hell of a lot of weight to carry around that far up the nose. I would be nervous about it starting to stuff the nose in if I hit a cruiser wake wrong. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! P.S., I do have silent choice, but need to replace 2 of the solenoids to get it to work. I would rather get it to where I can idle it without the above issues rather than go that route anyway. I like hearing her run, even at idle. |
Originally Posted by txtraveller2002
(Post 3854009)
I have a 98 32' Fever, and it has the typical vibration issue when idling out. It seems like it's a lot more pronunced in my boat than others that I've seen and been told about, you can hear it several hundered yards away, it sounds like I have 15 subwoofers in the boat all stuck on one note. It doesn't bother me too much when idling out, I can usually drop the tabs and give it a timy bit more stick, and it gets the swim platfoprm to break the seal with the surface of the water. The problem is idling when I'm at the dock or rafted up, it is bad enough that it gets water completely up the sunpad. Yes, I know it's a boat, and we are at the lake, but I only took it out twice at the end of the season, and each time someone slipped on the wet sunpad/swim platform crossing my boat at the tie up. I'm worried someone is going to break their face and get a lawyer.
After all that long winded explaination, here's my question....has anyone put aftermarket aluminium exhaust on one of these with big blocks, and did it make enough difference in how it sat in the water to alleviate the issue? I have seen threads on here about adding weight to the front, so I did an experiment with some buddies, and it took 3 of us, all right around 200 lbs apiece, standing on the beak to get it to come out of the water enough to make it stop. That's a hell of a lot of weight to carry around that far up the nose. I would be nervous about it starting to stuff the nose in if I hit a cruiser wake wrong. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! P.S., I do have silent choice, but need to replace 2 of the solenoids to get it to work. I would rather get it to where I can idle it without the above issues rather than go that route anyway. I like hearing her run, even at idle. |
Originally Posted by prostock85
(Post 3854017)
Mine has the silent choice and its dead quiet @ idle but when I have it above water with a few people on it does the same thing. Nordic 95 has the same boat with quite a few pieces replaced with aluminum and it sits quite a bit higher then stock, maybe a solid 5" or so.
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Replace the parts to fix the silent choice.. only option. Or install gibson downturns. I installed emi exhaust and the rear went up about 1".
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Originally Posted by glen george
(Post 3854059)
Replace the parts to fix the silent choice.. only option. Or install gibson downturns. I installed emi exhaust and the rear went up about 1".
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My 1st year with my 32 the silent choice exhaust valve was frozen open. I could not take it, I installed these rubber 4" elbows and all was well. I did pull off the silent choice and took it apart and freed it up and works well now. The EMI exhaust i was able to idel around the dooks w/o the rumble when open .
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Originally Posted by txtraveller2002
(Post 3854009)
I have a 98 32' Fever, and it has the typical vibration issue when idling out. It seems like it's a lot more pronunced in my boat than others that I've seen and been told about, you can hear it several hundered yards away, it sounds like I have 15 subwoofers in the boat all stuck on one note. It doesn't bother me too much when idling out, I can usually drop the tabs and give it a timy bit more stick, and it gets the swim platfoprm to break the seal with the surface of the water. The problem is idling when I'm at the dock or rafted up, it is bad enough that it gets water completely up the sunpad. Yes, I know it's a boat, and we are at the lake, but I only took it out twice at the end of the season, and each time someone slipped on the wet sunpad/swim platform crossing my boat at the tie up. I'm worried someone is going to break their face and get a lawyer.
After all that long winded explaination, here's my question....has anyone put aftermarket aluminium exhaust on one of these with big blocks, and did it make enough difference in how it sat in the water to alleviate the issue? I have seen threads on here about adding weight to the front, so I did an experiment with some buddies, and it took 3 of us, all right around 200 lbs apiece, standing on the beak to get it to come out of the water enough to make it stop. That's a hell of a lot of weight to carry around that far up the nose. I would be nervous about it starting to stuff the nose in if I hit a cruiser wake wrong. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!! P.S., I do have silent choice, but need to replace 2 of the solenoids to get it to work. I would rather get it to where I can idle it without the above issues rather than go that route anyway. I like hearing her run, even at idle. |
Originally Posted by Interceptor
(Post 3854091)
How many people on board to sink your swim platform and wet the sunpad ?
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Originally Posted by Interceptor
(Post 3854091)
How many people on board to sink your swim platform and wet the sunpad ?
When we are tied up in the party cove, As long as everyone with me is staying in or out of the water, I can manage to keep the sunpad relatively dry. The angle the boat sits when stopped is part of the issue, because the sunpad is tilted down some, so it doesn't take much water on it to make it slick as hell. Plus all the pople from other boats crossing, it stays pretty wet all day. Part of the problem to, wich there really isn't a fix for, is the rear of the boat sits so much lower in the water than most that I tie up to, so pople are already having to step down on it. Add some alcohol in their system, plus a little water on the my sunpad, and it gets tricky. I try to keep towels out on it, but I don't want to have to babysit all day. The vibration issue is just a contributing factor part of the time, I was just hoping to get it resolved regardless, it does get rather annoying in it's own right. |
Where did you find the 4" rubber elbows? Seems like a cheap fix to see if it helps.
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