surface drive on a pontoon?
 

as the title states, would this even be possible? for example an i/o pontoon having an arneson asd 6 kit put onto it.

Oh, God.............

I was wondering if the drive would work on a flatbottom ( Sanger or similar)?

We did a Whipple motor in 1 so why not.

May want to set the pontoon up on blocks at the stern and bow and than load some 55 gallons drums onto the middle and fill them to BEND in a little Rocker.

:There a pic floating around of a 27ft with a Merc 1100 with #6 surface drives. I have it on my work computer.

I don't see why it wouldn't work. Pontoons seem to have a lot of "dirty" water that can cause cavitation but that wouldn't affect surface drives as much.

Mines get twin turbos over the winter.

I sold a ASD6 Kit to a guy several years ago for a pontoon boat.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]546512[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]546511[/ATTACH]I've seen something like that done with cars but it can cause wheel alignment problems, negative camber and increased tyre wear. (Poor photos, sorry)

Just how high can you jack up an ob on a toon??? Same concept.....

Why? Never understood high speed pontoons, inefficient to say the least. Over 60mph buy a deck boat and run Havasu style.

I agree with this, and I own a pontoon. There awesome boats with tons of room and do great up to that 55-60 after that they take tons of power. The huls just arent designed to plane, you can add strakes and flat bottoms and this helps but its still not efficent like a v-bottom of Cat

Ok HERE COMES THE INSULTS TO PONTOON LOVERS!!!

You have got to be kidding me!1!!!!

You are going to putt zillion horsepower on a Lake Erie barge -- give it to grandpa - to tow the grandkids around?? Not to mention all this horsepower to a boat that takes 6 miles to turn-- URGH This is a disaster waiting to happen

Sorry about the insults

6 miles to turn??? You might want to open your eyes a tiny bit, performance toons are the new thing and handle better then most bow ride boats.

The 1 we did was a 30.6 foot tri-toon double decker, it handled well and turned in the same distance of most any boat I have ever driven but was top heavy so slow it down before turning sharp and no problem. The owner could be seen racing jet boats all summer with 10-15 passengers, sound system jamming and a 10 foot high rooster following........ he loves it!!

Any pics of that boat?

Cant tell for sure but this looks like an ASD on this boat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTlWjtBtpfU

Here the pic from my computer

http://club.benningtonmarine.com/upl..._457_53343.jpg

All looks lots cooler than the 75 hp 2 stroke on mine:)

I did a test drive on a triple with the new Evinrude 300, with 5 people we were doing 50 in 2' to 3' chop and it did 180's at full throttle. I have to admit it really changed my mind on toons.

Well, he almost succeeded in making a 'toon look cool. Almost.

Saw a VW Golf set up about the same way. Rims way too wide for the tires that were on it, with the camber all screwed up to lower it. Looked stupid as hell, and I bet the inside of those tires are worn out within 5000 miles.

How much was the sticker?

i would love to know what that boat would run, or is it just a show boat?

love following your build of your own pontoon and cant wait for you to drop the ls into it

My daughter and son-in-law are looking for a toon. It was at an on the water boat show, they ended up going to the dealer to get their show price, it was something like $80k. It was the nicest I've ever seen but I'll stick to my offshore.

Yup that's the one

just stick a buncha outboards on one...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLRwkrBZzsA

that looks like it wants to tip over so bad, one too many people in the back and it seems like all the $$ he put into the engines would be gone