MidnightRider

Valeko is finishing up port work on my new heads. The machine shop was supposed to have my block, crank, etc back today, but you know how that is. It's a 4.5 stroke, 4.44 bore, 557" with ported Aluminum heads, matched medium rise single plain Aluminum intake, Flowed Holley 1050 Dominator, and Lightning Headers. It's going to be a nice piece. The engine will be All red and chrome, I am rerigging the engine compartment, repainting it, new battery boxes, all braided hoses. Finishing the few sections of the interior that were not done last year, redoing the seat backs in bright pearl white, putting on a blower scoop and redoing the sun pad. I am also adding a few new speakers and an amp.

Todd Hartigh

What Power? 750?

Do you remember Jeff that had the yellow/orange/white 24' challenger back when you had the baja? He had 675hp with a bravo and it ran 82-85. I will guess yours should be close to 90. Assuming that volvo drive don't break...

Give a call!

See Ya!

ROTAX454

I love it. Great suggestion. Regardless of what the officer does or has to say, they CANNOT perform the test. No test, no ticket for excessive noise. Maybe for an illegal exhaust, but at least you are still boating. I love Fxxxxxg with them, especially when they are fxxxxxg with us.

ROTAX454

Now that statement by the CG makes you get all excited about having some really nice BIG BLOCKS in your boat. I am assuming that they are MORE concerned with boating safety issues. That is what saves lives. Not protecting some condo owners ears from bleeding.

Nightlife1970

Yes the reason for the stop was because my stern light is not 360 degree. Something messed up in the lights and am getting that fixed, as the light on the windshield is supposed to light up as well. They checked for all the safty items I am supposed to have, and I did. Then wrote me a slip that said I am good to go for the rest of the year.

Very nice bunch of guys, and did the job they were supposed to do. Like I said the only mention of my exhaust was they loved the way it sounded. I checked the boat myself after that for sound levels. 109db at idle was alot more than I thought it would be. So I decided that wide open 4" out the back was a bit much, so am installing a set of mufflers this winter.

KAAMA

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I grew up in St. Joe and I still launch my boat down there on various weekends. As long as you're a "cool customer" they will not hassel you unless you provoke them. Same thing goes for South Haven.

ROTAX454

Thanks for the tips on where to launch/boat. Looks like we will be launching out of South Haven, especially when going over the Chi-Town.

cig92

I just read this thread for the first time and feel for you guys in MI. I'm from NY (Buffalo). I've been through this before, can't even begin to tell you all of the different occasions. A few years back Niagara county came up with a 0 tolerance policy. I just happened to be the individual they were going to make an example of. 13 tickets later I found myself in court. It made the news and the police reports. The best part is the boat wasn't even running, it was parked. I had walk away to get an ice cream cone and came back to find 4 police officers walking all over my boat, not to mention the off duty officers called in, coast guard, and the county sheriff, 11 of them total, wonderful use of tax dollars. I asked if i could help them and told the one rent a cop to get off my custom aluminum hood scoops. They were like a pack of wolves ready to attack. They had been planning this for some time they even had a guy there with a video camera. After 20 min. of bs they asked my to start the engines. My buddy pulled the kill switches under the dash and we proceeded with the testing. the motors never ran, they were furious, I had my boat towed back to my slip were they followed me and handed my 11 tickets. they still wrote me for loud exhaust, no hearing it and no test. Long story short, a lawyer from nearby read the article in the news, did the research and told me how the beat it. We went to court, they wanted to plea barging, we wanted a trial, they never expected that, they dropped everything except one ticket. I don't remember witch one. It happened several more times after that, pure BS. Kept on fighting it and haven't had a problem in a few years now. I will say they just about ruined the sport for me, taking the fun out of it by worrying witch corner they would be hiding around next. I'm not sure how the law reads out there but in NY there are many variables. When testing for 90 DBA law there must be certain barametric presure, wind speed, humidity level, surrounding walls, other boats within certain distances, etc. also the metering gun must be calebrated daily witch you can almost always count on not being done, they must put this in a log every time it is done, same goes for a radar gun on the highway patrol. If you wish to do a little research on your own and you stand and fight the odds are in your favor. Good luck with the fight guys, I hope you get things resolved soon so you don't have to endure the same BS that I did.

cfischer

All the residents huh?? I moved out here last year when I took over the management at the Wharf and have gone to bat many times for the go fast industry since that is part a big part of our business and I own one myself. Try not to be so judgemental about ALL the residents in Grand Haven and if that's your attitude then you will just make it even worse being out here!!

cig92

slow down there cfisher. I'm sure that post was not meant for you but 9 times out of 10 it is the few residents that live along the water that complain and cause all of this nonsense and in my case as well. The man that was doing all the complaining is a gd hermit and contributes to our town as little as possible, his yard and home are a disaster. If people like that would spend a little more time looking at themselves and worrying less about what others are doing then we would all be a lot better off.