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So far so good but have less than 5 hrs on them. Performance marine had installed some on a 38' Fountain with 1000hps about a year before mine and they seemed to hold up for them I'am currently changing the lower units to IMCOs to get the props deeper in the water, to much slip right now.

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What he said... I found out the hard way with the OLD TECH TOO! :(

Too many water leaks with the copper gaskets....

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BBB725, looks really nice.

I remember Rod trying for a long time to peddle that boat. Glad you took interest and made it into a nice OL.

Good Ole' Rod............not surprised with what he is accused of. Hopefully not to many got burned. I was wondering who was running out of the old facilty. Thanks for the update.

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Rod took alot more people than you think and for alot more money. Got me for three XZ drives and I was one of the lucky ones

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Well I finally got it all back together again, turned down the boost redid the heads and stayed at 925hp. Put stronger springs in the water pop off valve and weaker springs in the mufflers. Pulled the drives put 1" spacers on with Imco lowers everything was ready to go except the weather is not cooperating. I leave tomorrow for Florida for a couple weeks so I guess I will wait till next spring to prop it.

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BBB725 Who did your motors? They look great. Do you like the whipple chargers? Do they idle well?

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Goodwin Competition in Omro Wi. They idle perfect and pull aton of power. I had ask him to pull some boost out of the motors from 10 to 6 he then redid the heads, the motors are still making 945hp.

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What MPH are you shooting for?

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Looking for 110, if your my insurance agent that KPH not MPH

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No, not your insurance agent.. :D I am about to purchase a 37 and I am trying to see what power I will need to reach that magic 105-110. MPH that is....

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Hi BBB...any reason Goodwin instead of Riggs?

Also, you are running trips, correct?

Great looking boat! :D

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I used Riggs when I re-powered from the HP 500 to Mels motors. Mel doesn't build his own so when I had them rebuilt I used Goodwin for the rebuild and Rod to install. I put the boat up for sale and couldn't give it away with triples so I went with twins and increased the power from 725hp each to 945 hp hopping to run about the same speed. Big Kurt that worked for Mel now works for Sweetwater in Oshkosh they did the work.

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This may help it is very accurate.

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What did ya do about the Imco lower mateing up to the B Max?

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Gary Miesenberg did them I'll find out what they had to do and take some pictures. I had the crescent shaped B-Max and switched to the IMCOs .

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The water passage between the imco and the Bmax upper don't mate up very well,Dean said something about machining it but still doesn't line up well.I guess you had to use the Bmax vert in the Imco lower?

Did ya notice any difference between the Imco over the crescent lowers?? I am waiting on my lower now. Iam running stock bravo style lower now.

Rob :drink:

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I haven't run the IMCOs vs the B-Max cresent, but I was at a 30% slip factor with the B-Max so I switch to the IMCOs and added 1" spacers to get deeper in the water. I ran stock XZs vs IMCOs and would run like 99mph @ 5000 rpms and 96mph @ 5400 rpms I put the IMCOs on and ran 110 mph with the same props. I know they had to use B-Max vertical shafts and that was sent out someone. Will get all the details and let you know. Also Mark was a big help to my engine builder with the mapping He couldn't get up here but I know they both spent alot of time on the phone. Thanks again

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Some pics of the IMCOs on the B-Maxs

Thx for all the hard work you did BBB