42 fountain
 

Im trying to lay out a staggered engine set up in a 91 42 lightning that had triple brovos in it . im trying to change over to # 4s on boxes and 540 blower motors . it dosnt seem to be possable with onlt 80 inches from transom to bulkhead . how do they fit 900s with #6 drives in the same boat. any help please

Call fountain.

nobody home

Well that answers that

With big blowers like that, yo might just be better running it in a side by side, then you still have a lot of your swim pad up front to use for your women, isntead of letting your scoops take up all that space.

And it would be easier to just fill the hole in the transom.

That is my imagination working on that though. It would be pretty cool.

Is this Tom? if so call me if you need me to get some more info on stringer lay out. It can be done Ohio Steel was set up that way.

kinda like this....

All kidding aside, it's a pretty tight squeeze with the headers!

That is why I was wondering if the side by side was such a bad idea.

There is one on boat trader that has 850's and some sort of speedmaster and it is rigged side by side. And it is the older hull

What about doing a short (half) stagger if forward clearance is an issue?
Eddie

gofastlvr looks good, what is your drive centerline is it more than 20'' and were is your x dimention at

thanks for the input. tom il keep in touch and let you know how things are going

42' Fountian with staggard layout
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Layout
 

I had the OHIO STEEL whick was a stagger setup. The motor staggar was a full 48" plus the rear tranny had a driveshaft of 12".
The engine compartment was liklely custom but it was every bit of 9 feet or a little more trnsom to bulkhead.
Hope you get it figured. I see most Fountains are not a full 48"staggar with 18" drive spacing. This may be causing your layout problems.
Find a boat with short staggar and you may get it to fit.
Ken