I bet someone will get a hell of a deal again before it sells. The power will keep the price down imho. It will still be a great deal. I would just convert it and factor that into the total cost. I know I am old school but WTF is with the underwater exhaust? You might as well get a t shirt that says I'm a puss on it. If you can afford to own and maintain that boat, you can afford to pay a few noise tickets. You are looking at about $40k to convert to whipples with a new fuel system done right and another $10k to get the tails all redone and the transom plugged. That's what it would take to make me be in love with it. We will see where the price goes. He may get lucky and find a guy that this is his first one that hooks up right off the bat. I'm pulling for him!

Dave is a really nice guy and really knows his stuff. One of the best engine guys out there. I have never heard a bad thing about him.

You obviously don't know Dave or what he is capable of. The boat may be worth less to you because it's not efi but not everyone feels the same way.

This has nothing to do with Dave. As I said before, I have never heard anything but good things about him. What it does have to do with is roots motors over a 1000hp on pump gas with the old style intercoolers. Have you personally owned an 1100hp roots motor on pump gas and go hold it against the wood for 15 minute legs of poker runs? I'm not saying it has no value. I'm also not trying to start a pissing contest. If you love carbed roots set ups, stick with it. I'm not trying to convert anyone. I'm out. You guys can get in the bus and run over me and then back up and hit me again. I have shared all I have on this particular subject. :)

I for one do have a pair of 1000 hp roots, carburetor, early style intercooler motors. BTW I would never hold any motor to the mat for 15 minutes. But, have I missed something? What is your point?

Glenn...... Ray says you need a new Paron lowbed!!!! but I still can't afford it :drool1:

Hey at least it doesn't have Cobra power!

I wish it did so I could offer him $100 and not feel like a d!(k. :drool1:

thundersone,...I have read your posts on this thread, and I do NOT really see any offense in them towards Dave as others may have---I seem to think they like Dave and respect his work a lot and I cannot blame them for sounding a bit protective of him. I think your comments were not disrespectful towards Dave---but of course that is only my opinion....but, and, so believe me, I know what it is like to be misunderstood when making posts in these forums---haaa! :picard1: Just so you know, I have known Dave Wesseldyke personally for about 16 years,....he's my engine builder.

Anyway, just to bring you up to speed a little about Dave......Roots vs Whipple, and carbs vs EFI, etc,---I can tell you this, I remember stopping in Dave's shop as he was rebuilding those Merc 1075hp engines for that XXX Outerlimits boat a few years ago and Dave built those engines according to what the owner wanted---stock Merc rebuilds. I would think that the majority of the time, an engine builder builds the engines the way the customer wants---of course I am sure Dave makes suggestions to the owner before the engine project plans begin, but even so, it is still the customer's choice and money. I will also say that Dave can build any EFI supercharged set-up he wants----yeah, with half his brain tied behind his back. (as Limbaugh would say)

He has 4 big cubed engines with the big PSI superchargers with EFI that he custom built back in the early 1990's---2 in the boat, and 2 sitting in his shop....I am talking about some really nasty, wild sophisticated looking stuff for the 46' Skater JAWS offshore racing team---he was doing that stuff almost 25 years ago. He can build anything that you want...he just does not advertise and hardly says a word----because it does not really matter to him if a person brings an engine to him or not as he is plenty busy doing the stuff he loves and he is very gifted and talented at it. Dave has a way of always making the sophisticated stuff look really effortless and easy.

In the last 2 days he has align honed 19 engine blocks in a row that he has to assemble for customers---and they just keep trickling in the door by 2's....and yet, you don't see him advertising anywhere, or talking much on here. He's too busy building engines, and researching how to make them run better in boats and making Boostane and shipping it out all over the world. He's extremely busy and he let's his reputation precede himself. He gets his work usually by word of mouth. People bring him engines from other states. So, yes, he is very capable and more than qualified to build the wild EFI sophisticated supercharged stuff----IF a customer really wants him too.

I don't think he bashed the engine builder very much, but what about a little support for a fellow OL owner. Not much good said about the OP boat.