Bob, the only reason I said what I said is the fellow who brought the Gentry boat was "looking for a pair" of drives, "looking for engines like 8-92's" to start putting this boat back together. I'm not one to count someones money but that implies he can't go out and spend $300k plus on state of the art engines and drives to power that boat.

I'm just saying what he wants to do is possible on a budget and get the results he wants which is a beautiful big peice of racing history that can cruise with little effort probably in the 70-80 range all day, not beat him or his wallet up and be able to travel virtually anywhere with it.

I admire people like that, not everybody has FU money, I don't - he's going to have a great boat that I would kill for and I'll still be sitting behind the keyboard. If I can give him advice so he can get it done, I'll feel pretty good about it!

We agree. Completely.

I am not sure I saw that thread, but was going off what you said.

If you are not going to race a boat, you might as well not break the equipment ... and those Detroits don't break easy.

Transmissions and props for the 8V may be harder to suss than the engines. :)

Bob