42 Poker Run rerig
 

Just finishing up de rigging. Now comes the fun part.
Parts are beginning to arrive. Broke it up into three area's
Bow, cockpit, engine bay. The bow is pretty much done. Pressure washed, new bilge pumps hoses, lights, wiring.
Cockpit, seats removed floor pulled fuel bladders removed. Were in the process of refinishing the fuel bladder area's. Will reinstall with all new hoses. Going to reupholster the seats and rebuild the seat shocks.
Engine bay, completely derigged getting it ready to have transom filled and recut for six drives.[ATTACH=CONFIG]562818[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]562819[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]562820[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]562821[/ATTACH]

Was is it rough shape ? got any before pics ?

No it was in pretty good condition, but being 11 years old ready for some upgrades. A lot of what I'm doing is my ocd kicking in. While I have it apart I will replace all bilge pumps, hoses, new blowers, all new hoses and lines. the boat only had 330ish hours on it. I always wanted a Six drive poker run, We have new M series transoms coming with new dry sump sixes. going to run the velvet drive trans.

There's movement in my pants over this build :eekdrop:

Which Fountain Poker Run was that? The one in Texas?

Yes Rainmaker

Were the fuel bladders leaking on it?

I can't wait to see how this turns out. Did you just buy the boat recently?

Maybe you will want to sell it when you are finished. :D

No the fuel bladders were new last year, I wanted to replace fill hoses and just basically go through the whole boat. I have to plumb in my return lines. Not really a big deal to pull them. Now I will have peace of mind knowing what everything is.

Bought the boat about 3 months ago. Ya I'm kinda excited too. No don't think I will want to sell it, the more I work on it the better I like it. These are really well thought out and constructed boats.

Nice Buy!

What power are you putting in it?

565 EFI's

You are a man of few words....

WHAT KIND OF HORSEPOWER WE TALKIN'?

Very cool build. You're right..... there were not enough 42PR #6 boats built.

1100,s 1350,s ??????

Following. Post lots of pics! It's cold!

Yeah baby!

That will be one nasty motherf'er.

KWright , contact me if you need any info on rigging a 42 with sixes

Congrats on a wicked cool boat.
Recently before I bought my boat...
I was eyeing that boat hard for months!

Wife would have killed me
She needed "some-what" of a cabin for the kids ��

Subscribed to this thread for the long coldness coming.

As much as I would like to have some 1100's or 1350's.
For now it will just have my 565 n/a. EFI's.

Its nothing that strapping a Whipple to them cant fix! :)

Oh what the heyll do you know??? lol :party-smiley-004:

tmi...................congrats very cool project

Awesome project. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

When I had a set a Ilmors rigged in my 38 Fever I got to spend a weekend with Ben Robertson who was doing consulting work for Ilmor at the time. Ben told me that the 42 PR was designed as a five -seater from its inception. When he and the crew at Fountain were doing the final mock-up on the cockpit everyone was very pleased with the way it laid out with the five seats. Then Reggie walked in and took a quick look at the mock-up, shook his head and barked out, "Make it a four seater!" and walked out. Much as they tried to convince him otherwise Reggie had made up his mind.

Since you have it totally apart, apparently there is room for five seats in the 42 PR if you are so inclined :)

I agree with Reggie, it think the 4 seat layout is badazz.

SUBSCRIBED!! Looking forward to seeing the progression of this bad azz and beautiful machine!

I don't know much lol
But hey Eric your wife asked me to fly in and teach you how to
Run your boat for a Christmas present , so I guess I'll be seeing you right after new year ��

+1!

That's funny...your wife asked me to fly up to NY to teach her a few things.....lol. :lolhit:

I owe you a phone call man.....my bad.

Awesome. Spin those motors up, should be really fast.

Awesome project congrats man! My favorite fountain model! Thanks for sharing

Got to go for a hot lap in Rainmaker several years ago when it was at LOTO. Was a cool rig then, glad to see it's going to be that much better now. Congrats!

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M series transoms with six drives

What did rainmaker have in it for power and drives before the rerig and what did it run for speed

First class gear all the way. Nice.

Had its bravos and 525's.

I thought RM ran mid 90's with that power?

Yes ITS Bravo's with 525's. Not sure of top speed I've never ridden in the boat.

Does the transmission sit in the extension box with these like they do/did on the nxt?

Even though the #6 has been around for years it still looks like a cutting edge design.