No Excuses 28 is now home!
 

The No Excuses 28 is now at her new home here in TN. :D
I just got in saturday evening , I will get some recent pics soon. Here is all I have for now.

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Here's a nice one of her haullin...

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I always thought that was an awsome running shot.

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Sorry I missed you but glad everything went ok. Parnell

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Good Luck with your new Saber. I always thought the No Excuses boat was very cool!
Keep us posted on your progress with it.

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Hey parnell ,
I had all intentions of stopping by, however I had a pretty ruff few days before we came up :( . We also had our 7 & 2 year old with us so I decided to just blow on through.

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You are a VERY brave man. :eek:

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You are not the first one that has said that. However I am VERY blessed to have two wounderfully behaved children & my wife & I couldn't have asked for them to be any better.
But yes that is a very brave move especially when you factor in the tow home & the weather that we had this weekend.

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Congrates, it's an awsome boat, Steve.

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Thanks , Steve Here are a few shots from yesterday evning.

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Some more including my new hired gun on the throttles !
The funny thing is that she asked to drive & imediatly grabed the wheel & throttles on her own. :eek:

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Does anybody have a current email address , or number on
Jim Deitz I would love to talk to him & pos. get some old photos that may not be here on the board already.
If any body has it you can send it to me as a P.M. please. Thanks, Scott

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Thats a great natural instinct your daughter has. :D

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Man that is a sweet 28. I about pissed my pants when I looked at it in 2003. It's like brand new.

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I agree it is like brand new, it only has 67 hours on it. My youngest daughter & I were climbing around in the boat yesterday ( exploring ) & when you lift the stowage comaprtments up anywhere in the boat whether in the cabin or under the rear seat, you can still smell gelcoat pretty strong. :cool:

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What year is this boat?
Nice acquisition!

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Thanks RLW it is a 1996

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Very nice!!! What do you have for power?

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I am putting a big single in it. However I am up in the air of exactly how it will be dressed.

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few pics

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Congrats on the purchase Scott, Good luck with her. If you are converting to a single I may be interested in one of the #4 drives and Transom assemblies, Let me know if they are for sale. Chris

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Hey Chris ,
I wish I had the drives but I bought it minus power & dives.
I am looking around for a drive & transom assy. my self. Are you giving up on the stern powr ?

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Not giving up on the sternpowr it is just that I have always visioned the speedy 4 or 5 as my favorite setup for a single engined 28 footer. It would allow low mounting of the engine and therefore lots of room for blower and big superchiller without a scoop.

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First let me say cute kid................ way cool boat you have to be super excited.............go with a single big cubic inch retarted blower motor if you can swing it, awsome boat keep us posted with pics of the progress it is like crack for me ....................

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A single 28 Saber is one of my dream rides. I have thought about this setup and would consider a Konrad without the tranny in the extension box setup. I know it puts the engine forward to accomodate the tranny outside the box.
Is there room for that configuration?

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Thanks guys, & Yes am am excited about the project. I have plenty of room for any drive combonation that I want to go with. I also have plenty of engine height room with no scoop due to the raised engine hatch. I would really love to try running a konrad setup. Any doners out there ???

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I recieved my exhaust via ups this past thursday. they are gill manifolds with stainless marine dry tailpipes. So it should sound pretty nasty. I really need a drive soon. I just listed my 33 plymouth rat rod on ebay with hopes of turning it into an outdrive ! We will see what happens.

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572" Mild Engine for ya


Also have some Big Tube Stellings for ya too. :drink:

Cougarman

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Those headers are sweet ! & so is that power. I have a really good motor & as of last week I now have exhaust. What you have that I would really like to get ahold of is that #6 & I would be in pretty good shape.

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Sell that car and you can buy my extra #6.

Can't go wrong with that baby on there, Check300 on the board here has a single engine #6. Matter fact Saber set the X-dimention for him and he run triple digits with her.

I'll have it for a bit, have tomany other things going on.

Cougarman

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Here is a pic. of my new exhaust.
I also included a pic of my youngest daughter daydreaming about that first trip to the track. ( I couldn't resist adding that one in.)

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Is that Imco?
I really liked my Stainless Marine.

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They are Gill manifolds with Stainless Marine dry Tail pipes.
I must say the stainless Marine tails are really nice pieces.

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What did she have for power originally?

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2 650 HP 615 CU" It was quite healthy & probably one of the fastest 28' boats ever built. ( I did not say the fastest before anybody starts attacking that statement. ) However there have not been many boats of its size that ran as good as it did & would run it in pretty much any conditions you dared to handle.

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It's all in post 107# to 112# and 117# :drink: Click below
No Excuses 28' Saber


Cougarman

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Thanks Cougar, It was & still is a bad ride. I hope to have it hitting the water early next summer as a single Vortech supercharged 511". It will be making some pretty good HP #'s & should run quite well. Although It will not hit the
104 mph that it once did , It will also not be an embarasment & should perform well. P.S. If you feel the urge to donate that #6 to the cause & effort I will crank up the boost & we will see how close we can get. :D ( J/K although I wouldn't turn it down.) Talk to you later , Scott

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Hey Scott .... Any interest in selling the 28 before you start tearing into her ????

Thanks !

JM :cool:

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Jerry ,
I got your P.M. a few days ago. I havn't had any intentions of selling the boat, However My P.M. box has room if you want to shoot me an offer, I am always willing to atleast listen. Later , Scott

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o the drama!!! :D