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Originally Posted by LubeJobs42 (Post 4574913)

I heard Yvonne had Greg take the big motors out and put them in the corner right next to where she keeps his balls!

Now that's what you call a hijack :drink:

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Originally Posted by LubeJobs42 (Post 4574913)

I heard Yvonne had Greg take the big motors out and put them in the corner right next to where she keeps his balls!

Glad to see you are still checking in. Funny that Yvo and Your wife would try to do the same thing. At least mine lets me keep my boat. :grinser010:

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Originally Posted by cash bar (Post 4574940)

glad to see you are still checking in. Funny that yvo and your wife would try to do the same thing. At least mine lets me keep my boat. :grinser010:

ouch!

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Originally Posted by Cash Bar (Post 4574702)

Both motors are in and the drivelines completed, New fittings coming for the big strainers and ball valves. The bilge looks so uncluttered now.

The delay on the harnesses has the work moved to the dash and interior now. You can see it just a bit in the pic I snapped of the starboard motor today.

Nice work, looks great!

Did you have to change the location of the motors? Forward ? Any weight difference between the swap?

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Originally Posted by phil_p999 (Post 4575029)

Nice work, looks great!

Did you have to change the location of the motors? Forward ? Any weight difference between the swap?

About 600lbs lighter is the estimate when it's all back together. The motors are going in the same location since we actually wanted the CG to be more forward. We will dial it in from that setup.

Wow, 600 lbs will be quite a noticeable change. Was the bow a bit light/flighty with the previous set up?

Cash - you work fast man, or have the right people on the job. That would have taken me no less that 125 years to get motors in around here. I guess the resources down there are greater than up here in CLE region.

Awesome package, love the idea of usability and being realistic about how you use the boat and at what speeds. I should have taken a page out of your book and I would have been boating instead of fixing sh!t all the time with custom power.

Happy for you.

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Originally Posted by AZMIDLYF (Post 4575081)

Wow, 600 lbs will be quite a noticeable change. Was the bow a bit light/flighty with the previous set up?

I wouldn't say it was flighty. It's just that the boat was only 7k lbs with the big motors so it had a lot in the stern with the 6 drives. The CG was around the bilge wall and now should be in the cockpit somewhere.

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Originally Posted by frickstyle (Post 4575089)

Once I had the plan to do the swap I worked with Jason Ventura at Brand X to find the best opening in our schedules to make it work. We hoped to plan it far enough out that most all of the parts and work would be set to go ahead of time. The timeframe was/is tight and a few issues like tailpipe fit and the harness delay have slowed it but so far we sgould not miss any pre-set events we had planned to attend.

Someone is on my boat every day, even if one day it was just to pull all 7 trailer tires so new ones could be mounted.

Sounds like you're on top of it. And I know how expensive that can get....