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I found some other pics of the boat when it was in the magazine. Before the Blower motor.

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What make / model tabs? Define lower speeds.

I ran my 2005 one season w/o and one season with tabs(Bennet HD-16). Never anything that I would call porpoising with tabs in play. Only thing close to porpoising is with little or no tabs in response to waves. Wife likes to cruise in the open bow and does not like any kind of rough bouncy ride which of course is worse the farther forward you sit. Always wave action on week ends in season on our lake so usually 25 mph max cruise speed with wife up front. OUCH! The tabs changed everything and now can and do cruise at any speed with impunity with appropriate tab position (often almost full in) unless huge cruiser waves. Hard for me to imagine how tabs could cause porpoising but I am hardly a hydrodynamics Guru.

Hope someone else that is more knowledgeable chimes in. May need to post this question on the General Q&A for more exposure.

Different question. What has been your experience taking big air with the Rage at higher speeds. It is a boat that seems to like to fly off swells. Anything on tab positions / loading to better control this is of interest.

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That is one beautiful Rage! Is your boat the actual boat in the article?

What was the original engine/hp in your Rage and what did it run WOT before the engine swap?

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Yes that is our boat thank you, we had allot of fun actually designing the boat. We designed the paint scheme, we lowered the windshield, all the rigging, and put the bolsters in. The motor was fun as well.

That motor was a naturally aspirated 540ci, 625hp, and it only lasted a few runs. We ran a few runs at the time trials on radar at 85mph with a 28 pitch prop.

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That is very similar speed to the O/B Rage with a NA 540ci/625hp that BobL put together. Re: "only lasted a few runs". What happened?

Impressive paint scheme to design from scratch.

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Rage they were running it as hard as they could for a few runs and we blew a head gasket and they hydraulicked the motor.

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That's a shame but sounds like that gave you the opportunity to move up in hp. Was that a Cometic head gasket?

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Kokppelli, I'm glad to see you still have the 28 Heat. How's it running? It still looks good. Frank

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Hey Frank - nice to hear from you. Yep boat still runs great. Did'nt do much to the motor, just some exhasut and a flame arrestor. ONly gained a couple MPH on the top but the boat is very efficient in the midrange and gets great mpg - with gas on the lake over 4 bucks last summer it was nice to drive right by the pumps on our weekends. You still selling Nordics? Do you still have that beautiful Flame with the 525's? Shane

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Hi Shane, glad you saw my message. Yes, I still sell Nordics and I do have a 35 Flame with 525's. I've been selling more used Nordics lately and I'm always looking for well maintained 2000 or newer 28 Heats. I've always wanted to boat on Lake Powell so maybe someday I'll see you there. Frank

Here is a picture of ours!

One more time..... Here is ours!

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Last summer at beautiful Lake Shasta, CA.

here's a few more of mine

Stoutman450f your photos aren't showing up.
You need to go under manage attachments and find your file and click on it then say upload. If your photos are too large it will not work. I find the best way for me to reduce photo size is to go to your photo then e-mail it to yourself. When you email it to yourself you should get the option to resize or keep orig. size. Choose resize then send it. Then open the email file and save the photo again to a place where you can find it. Then go back to OSO forum and try it again. It sounds like a lot to do but it goes fairly quick. That't how I do it. I'm sure there is an easier way but that's the only way I figured how.
Try it again. Or if you can't you can e-mail it to me at [email protected] and I'll try it for you.

Ray

Here's one more

Here my 2007 35 just out of the mold

Looks good nordic gary
What power are you going with?
Is that metal flake? If so that's cool. Glad to see Nordic doing some new graphics. Lot's of luck and enjoy.

Went with 525's with sportmaster lowers, had a 2004 powered the same, seems like the perfect match. The red gel has a slight pearl essence rainbow tint which looks aswesome in the sun light.

Thx

NG

love the red looks nice.. will the boat be done by jamboree time:drink:

Gary,
That rocks man!
Hey, are going to have enough water in the "pond" for our Nordic Regatta?? We could move to nearly Dale Hollow. Great facilities, beautiful lake, oh yeah, the dam's not leaking either:rolleyes: :D ...............
Regards,
Steve
here's some new ones of mine

Hey Steve,

The lake actually is much better than the press clippings. Local news loves a story. From the Jamestown Resort and State Dock to dam not much difference, still 100 plus foot of water in most places. Jamboree is on. Also, we are planning on attending your Poker Run.

Very pleased with how the graphics turned out. The accessory package on this boat will be something to see.

Will keep you updated.

How's the new power project coming? Your boat at WOT looks bad-to-the-bone!

NG

Thanx Indiana Heat, generally I'm a purple kinda guy but thought I'd try the red thing.

Should take delivery late April. Feel free to stop by the shop and check her out.

Gary,

Why dont you keep the purple boat & sell me this???? That looks awesome!!! Very Good!!! Looking forward to a ride at the Nordic Jamboree.

Linnie

Gary,
You don't mean the media would exaggerate things do you :rolleyes: ????? We're all in for the Regatta. Glad to hear you are making our poker run!
Motor is almost done. Just a couple of parts on order to finish up, then it's dyno and ECU recurving time. Will also be beefing up the XR. I think it's in for a hard time this summer:D ...........
Regards,
Steve

Why didn't I think of that???? Good to hear from ya Linster, looking forward to boating season.

NG

Gary

Did the fellow take the 35 from you?

Steve, Get that boat ready, looking forward to meeting some new faces at the Jamboree.

Linster,
Looking forward to meeting you too man. Nice Corvette. I love the C6. Chevrolet did a great job on this one. When you see what great cars American companies can make (just up the road from here in BG, KY), it makes you wonder how that message gets lost in their byzantine management decisions.
Look how well the Mustang is selling for Ford. I'll wager the Challenger will do the same for Dodge.
Regards,
Steve

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Heres Mine

Here is mine and it is for sale in the classifieds.

For sale already? :eek:

The finished product

It's no so much as what the Nordic looks like, but what comes with it....

I must have gotten the cheaper model then cause I never got anything like that when I bought mine.....:p

Southocg,
Nice looking hull:cool: (is that a picklefork?:rolleyes: )...........the boat's not bad either:D .
Hope you and your "standard equipment" make it to the Jamboree.
Regards,
Steve

Steve,

When and where are we talking..... for the Jamboree?

If it's the one next week, we're gonna have to pass.....
would love to come down, just not enough time in a month to make it to all the events.

Lake Cumberland, 6-22/24.
Steve

Oh well..... we'll just hang around here and see what happens.