Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

Would Like To Get Some Info On This Engine Package? What Type Of Reliability And Durability To Expect From Them. What Type Of Maintenance To Expect.

Re: Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

maybe call keith?

Re: Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

keith has a bunch of maitenance tips on his website they are worth reading

Re: Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

At the risk of really sounding stupid, what's his current website given all the organizational gyrations? Many thanks

Re: Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

I had a pair in my my AT. They were real nice motors, but idled a bit rough. It took Pat at AT 12 hours to get them running correctly, including having someone from KE come down and make corrections while the motors ran.

We added breather valves that helped a bit but one liked to stall. They are real strong, torquey motor that really accelerated well. I sold my boat with 70 hours on them and once we got the motors dialed in they were nice, although they did stall every once in a while. Kieth told me that I should get 200 hours out of them before having to do any work on them, and I believe it. They are a 540 CI with less than 3 pounds of boost.

I would not reccomend running them behind a bravo drive as they torque likes to eat them up. I had to have my drives gone through at 50 hours and needed some work on the one drive.

I know the Jeff Jassby (aka Jassman) had the same motors but had more problems that I did. He also went thorugh 2 Imco extreme drives at about 45 hours.

In all fairness to Kieth these motors were built in 2002 when he was going through all of his $hit, but overall I thought they were a real nice motor.

Re: Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

You really don't want me to comment. Jeff

Re: Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

I f they are truly built by Keith, I would take them any day. Remember their are alot of KE motors floating around that he had nothing to do with.

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When your name is on it, you should always make sure customer service and satisfaction should be #1, regardless of any situation. You would be surprised how many problems with just this particular motor when it first came out, not enough R&D. Jeff

Re: Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

Jass

I think your issues were with Julie Sullivan not Keith. I will put my motors up against anyones, and the customer service that I recieve from Keith is second to none.

Re: Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

Gatorone, Did you get your new quad-rotors put on.

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This goes back to July 02. We were dealing with Kieth, Brett, and some technician. Didnt know anything about Julie till later. TMP got it finally straited out, and got it to run properly with in tolerances. Jeff Jassby

Re: Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

So Would You Purchase A Boat With This Power Or Not ?

Re: Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

I believe KE took the blame in a few situations where the boat was not rigged properly, i.e. coolant supply to the motor, some engine monitoring issues basically created by the boat builder. Not saying any of the above were involved but lets just say there were some situations with some noteable builders. Do you think the builder took the heat for his lack of knowledge in setting the package up?? :rolleyes:

Re: Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

check your pm

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It's always easy to pass the buck on to the boat builder. Failure to return numerous phone calls from KE to get the situation straightened out was inexcusable. There were numerous problems with these engines, from fuel injection, to when put into neutral, it would just kill. So the one time they came out to the A.T. factory, the quick fix was to put a breather valve in, in doing so it would spike up to 1250-1500 rpms, not real good for drives. It finally got fixed, but I had to pay for something out of pocket, that was a defect.

You here a lot of good things about KE, and his motors. These motors as well as a few on some Cigs, PP, and Velocities that year at that time had the same problems, they might have gotten them straitened out as the year went by, all I can tell you is on my own personal experiences. Jeff

Re: Keith Eikert 675 Hp ???
 

You should expect 200 hours out of these motors if you run them how? How can you tell if these motors were built by Keith himself or Julie Sullivan?

Thanks,
LS JR.