PQ Roll Call
 

PQ owners,

Sound off! Post a pic and where you call your boating home.


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On Cumberland, KY
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Dayton, OH

Thanks. Brad.
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I have a 230 conquest in Holland, MI. Its a 1985 so still when it was Power Play
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Just south of Grand Rapids Mi
Boat mainly out of holland, lake Mi to saugatuck, hardy dam, torch lake, higgins.

Anna Maria Island, FL
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Jealous! Love anna marie island! My parents have winter place right next door in sarasota.

Bdbwtie,

Sweet Silencer. What year? Power? I like the portholes.

Thanks. Brad.
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Lake George N.Y. ~ Jersey Shore N.J.

Sorry for the Cig interruption!.....this is for POWERQUEST boats "knucklehead"!

I'm out of Grand Haven. Have run as far north as Pentwater and south as far as Saugatuck.
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Thanks Brad! its an 05 and has the 496 mag in it. Wish it was the HO but still does pretty good. I would rather it didnt have the port holes but they do make for a nice cross breeze on a hot day!

Brad

bdbwtie,

In '05 they would have both had the cast crank and rods, anyway.

And just what would you be doing in the cuddy that might require a cross breeze on a hot day......? :kiss::signs069:

Thanks. Brad.
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So I am just minus the cam and the tuning then!?!

Haha exactly what a cuddy is made for :silenced:

bdbwtie,

I think that's the only "performance" differences that make up the ~35HP gap. The problem is that, at least in my opinion, and apparently that of Merc until ~'01, as well, you kinda need the forged lower end to handle the extra HP.

Right about 2000-2001, Merc decided to start building the 496HO with their cast crank and rods. Through 2002 or so, what you actually got seems to have been at the whims of the guy assembling the engine, as they worked their way through their remaining stock of forged parts. Mine is an '02, and, according to the tech at Merc that ran my serial numbers, my HO was built with forged parts, which is a good thing, as mine also has a PQ factory build M1 ProCharger (I've since sent the ECM to Whipple for their stage 2 tune). My guess is that, when the original buyer requested the upgrade, PQ reached out to Merc and specifically requested a forged part built engine. Just a guess. My engine and outdrive build dates are '01. Certainly, by '05, those forged parts would have been long gone, and all HOs would have been built using the same cast parts as the base engine. The later HO engines don't seem to have any historical issues with the crank or rods, so..... Seek the expert's advice first, obviously, but my guess is that you'd be OK, if you were so inclined, with swapping the cam and having Merc (or whoever) reflash the ECM for the HO tune.

What do you run? We are short of that magic 80MPH mark (I'd like to see 85, let's be honest), but I'm pretty happy. And it pulls my old, fat ass up on a slalom, to boot! I wouldn't want to push it too hard with those damned stock cast pistons, anyway.

Ditto on the cuddy...... :ernaehrung004:

Thanks. Brad.
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Yea I don't think I honestly ever see myself doing any upgrades to this. I would love to go faster or get out of the hole better as its a slug out of the hole but I am probably over propped now with a 26p on it. I wanna say it is in the 65-66 mark well short of your 85 mark! I wouldn't pass a ride on yours though!!

bdbwtie,

Oh, we aren't hitting 85, by a good bit. The best we ever saw, after getting the injector issue ironed out, was 76, maaayyyyybe 77. I said I'd LIKE to see 85. Ain't gonna happen until I can convince the wife we need a new STX outdrive. 🙄

Yeah. I'm pretty sure we inherited a set of clogging injectors that went full clogged last spring. It was taking a full quarter mile to get on a plane, and maxed out at 53MPH. Smitty (Arcticfriends) cleaned them up for me and said it would be like a brand new boat. He wasn't wrong.

I'm hoping there's another PQ meet-up on St Clair this year. Maybe we can hook you up. I'm always up for mashing on the fun stick. :ernaehrung004:

Thanks. Brad.
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Someday you will get there! 76mph is still respectable! I havent had any issues with injectors on this one knock on wood. The legend I had before this with the 502 had dirty injectors, Smitty went through those and was a life saver!

I havent been on the east side for boating but I would be game for that!

bdbwtie,

Can't be much more of a drive for you than it would be for me. 😎

Thanks. Brad.
(937)545-8991

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2000 PQ 380 Avenger. 502 MPI with better oiling systems, TB, and Smitty tune/injectors. Modified bottom with trimmed strakes and reversed prop rotation (out). She boogies respectably for her big azz and black motahs. Located in Saginaw, MI.

Will be for sale in the Spring with all brand new updated dash/electronics/gauges.

Now that is goals!! Sweet boat!

Nice roost. Like the graphics.

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Indiana…….but prefer DHL or LCK

Liberator,

Where do you boat on Cumberland?

Thanks. Brad.
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Lee’s Ford,Jamestown,Rowena. Last time I had a slip at Lee’s was very disappointing. Usually get a room in Somerset. Transient slips are getting harder to find. Always try to hit 76 falls, Harmon, and all the good lunch spots.

Liberator,

Burnside ain't much better. I'm on what seems like an eternal waiting list to get a slip. Getting a transient slip is near impossible. We called one time and was told the best time to call was on a Wednesday. So I did. The girl on the phone told me I had to reserve a slip in person, day of. OK. So, on Friday, we arrive at about noon, go down to the marina, the girl behind the counter says we should have called on Wednesday. 😡 To make it worse, when you DO get a transient "slip", they park you on the gangway. They really don't have any actual slips for short term rental. It's nuts. They were forced to take some slip docks out when the lake was down for dam repairs, and then they lost a couple to that massive snow we had a couple year ago. They never rebuilt any of them. I thought that when Safe Harbour bought them, they'd start pouring money into expanding their capacity, but, so far, it hasn't happened. My brother has often said it's almost like they are TRYING to lose money.

Next time you're coming down, hit me up. We'll hook up. We have a house overlooking Burnside, so we're down pretty regular. I'm always up for hanging with new people.

We spend most of our time up the South Fork. There's a really nice party cove not too far up the way from the ramp on Burnside Island (the absolute best ramp on the lake), that is more family friendly than Harmon, complete with a "choose your own adventure" selection of cliff points to jump from.

Thanks. Brad.
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It’s almost like safe harbor is buying these marinas, squeezing all the profit out they can short term and then dumping them.
we haven’t been past Burnside much because there’s not much that way( marinas/resteraunts) but been wanting to venture that way.

Liberator,

Whereas Suntex seems to actually get it. Pour money into it and enjoy the returns.

There's literally NOTHING beyond Burnside, as far as commercialization. A couple of small ramps that I have no idea how to get to, and two community docks. That's it. Which is fine for us. We're not necessarily into the barhopping thing so much. At least, not while we're at Cumberland. You can go 25-30 miles up the South Fork, drop an anchor, and likely not see another soul all day. Or you can stop at the party cove and hang out with a hundred of your closest new friends. But no restaurants. We just make sammiches, bring snacks and drinks and make a day of hanging on the boat and head in when the wife is out of her JD Watermelon Spike. :ernaehrung004:


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A typical day up the South Fork.

Thanks. Brad.
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South fork looks like a cool run, like running a river channel. Yea not a party guy, when we go to Harmon always anchor across the way just watch performance boats come and go. Look for ya on the water. 👍

Liberator,

It stays pretty wide (not main lake wide, but...) until you get a fair ways up. I've been up far enough you can't just pull a 180; you have to shut down, spin around and take off again. When you start to see massive rocks poking up out of the water along the water's edge, you start to wonder if there might be one of them, just under the surface, out in the middle.

Like I said.... Give me a shout.

Thanks. Brad.
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PQ guys,

I don't InstaGoogleTwitterFace anything, but my wife tells me she saw on FB that a date has been set for 7/29 for a PQ meetup on St. Clair. I've got it on my calendar. Anybody planning on going?

Thanks. Brad.

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Anybody....?

The wife tells me that 18 have confirmed on the FB page. Nobody from here on OSO....?

Thanks. Brad.

Thanks. Brad.

Where is it on the lake? Fisher Bay? Little Muscamoot?
I don't have a PQ currently but I'm eyeballing one

B.Lee,

Little Muskamoot.

Whatcha lookin’ at?

Thanks. Brad.

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