Horrible quotes.....LOL.
Talking about confusion.

You get what you pay for. I paid $20,000 for a 2 year old 525 with 30 hours. I could have bought a whole lot more power for 20 big ones but I wanted the durability, reliability and proven package of the 525. I hope you are on the water soon.

Doesn't take a lot to spend a barrel in this game. Just wish I knew a little more about what I wanted. But next time I will know exactly what I want being that I have done this once. I haven't had a lesson yet that I didn't pay good hard earned money on. But I'm sure I'll have my moneys worth this time too. I have nothing left used except the fuel systems we have been jabbering about for a few days now and it sounds like that will be a easy fix too. Ron says power wise I'm just inside of what my bravo's will stand if I don't go jamming on them and treat them like a lady. LOL

On a positive note and moving right along. I was at Potter's shop today and my manifold are on and measurements have been taken for the tail pipes so now we wait for those to come in. Looks like they were putting in my new gauges this afternoon. Ron stopped by my shop to measure my hatch cover for clearance of the risers. Here is a question for the rest of you Fever guys. My exhaust holes were cut right up under my swim platform. In other words the platform from under the bottom cuts up for about a foot then drops down and flattens out. The exhaust holes were cut in that dip of the platform and the exhaust was actually burning my platform from the dip on out. Any one else confirm there's is like this two?? This is a little bit of a problem for the new tails. Ron is says he is trying to get the tails to be angled down wards from the risers out. this way the exhaust will blow down past the dip in the platform. Its a good thing I don't want mufflers on mine cause they wouldn't fit because of the dip. Ron thinks the holes were cut to high in the transom. Guys jump in and let me know how yours are in this area please!!!!!!!!!! I wish I had the plugs for these holes. I would plug them re glass and recut them lower by about three inches. Maybe this had to be this way for the stock Mercury manifolds. Let me know your thought's please.

Yea I kinda screwed that up. I thought fuel injected with 500HP was a 500 EFI. That's how all this got started. I got an education in this area now so we wont make this mistake again.

Let me look at my DYNO sheet 1st so I'm correct about what I'm about to say. This thread as taken so long I don't even remember the beginning of it now. LOL. Yes 532.9 HP with bad fuel regulator. 619.9 FT LBS of torque. The other is 529.9 HP I believe also with a bad fuel regulator.

CORRECT !!!!!! You hit it right on the head. Thank You for clearing this up. Some saw what was in them and how they were put together and assumed something was bad wrong and this had to be adjusted and changed and all the other things you see here. When really all is well. I didn't like the old fuel systems during the build and ask about changing them over to the new style 500s. This wasn't because I knew any of this. More so I didn't like the look of the old system then anything. Ron firmly told me if I wanted to take my motors out under the tree and build them he would put used parts on them. Other than that it wasn't happening on anything used. Now that we have cleared this up. I'm going to try and finish this thread I have started right to the end. Just because Wildman and Jake and a few others have been following this from Jump street. End of subject.

Thank You for this. I couldn't agree more. I'm as nervous as a **** house rat about all of this. Most of all I want me boat back so bad I would almost put a electric trolling motor on it or maybe twins so we keep the twins going. Just to be back in my boat again.

Thank You

My guess is the proof is in the pudding. Ron told me right out of the gate that Horse Power isn't **** and has nothing to do with it in a vee bottom boat. My guess is TORQUE is the secret to all those motors in the same boat.