Step bottoms tend to fly flat and level regardless of trim. They do fly though!

Scott the boat looks great. Chrisk how's 85k sound to you? If that aint a steal I dont know what is.

Scott, looking good thanks for the up dates!!! hey who spilled all that paint in your bilge???? LOL !!!

Ray,
The shut off valves are nothing more than the white heavy duty plastic ones available from Home Depot. Painted them with merc racing blue they already had the red levers:cool: Scott

Dave,
Thanks I know that's a big mess down there thank goodness it looks better with the motors. The one good thing about a splashed bilge is it's easy to hide things Like my filled in holes from my old engine mounts and the hundred bad placed screw holes I had to fill. There was a lot of room for improvement on the rigging in my bilge. I can't see paying way too much money for a boat and having FUEL lines wire tied to water hoses.

JM. thanks... but im looking for that "you must be crazy" deal...... A friend of mine has had a few boats and made money after a year of use with them every time... im looking for something along that line.... he is now in a 2001 33' scarab... his second... he has been racing it here in florida in the outlaw class, came in first and third so far... So the search continues...

Scott, Is that the steering wheel you got from Gaffrig? I cannot seem to find any without the wrapping. I really like the anodized aluminum on yours. Where did you get it?

Ray,
I put the same one on my 260. Livorsi has them, they're Momo's. It's called the Ponza style. It looks like anodized aluminum, but is really a soft polyurethane, really trick! You can get the matching hub as an extra, otherwise it comes with a black hub.

Motors are finished! go into the boat on Friday! (if it doesn't rain):mad:
The heads have been ported and reworked by Valko race heads. The whole valve trane has been replaced I changed cams to a crane #168731. The whole rotating assembly has been balanced. I can only guess as to the new HP these motors will produce so I won't post it;) But will post the difference in the boat rpm and speed.

One more!

Scott - nice job:D did your 500's not have cmi's?