Rebirth of SHOWDOWN
 

In race trim 1989

Nice!!

After having it at several shops, a lot of promises and very little action, I thought I would try to repair her myself with the help of a friend.

On second thought, I'm not getting any younger, I feel the need for speed and doing it in spare time is not working. Skater factory here i come.

That boat sat at Skater for a long time when it was still fairly new. Where has it been since?

I have this pic
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y221/70442/img057.jpg

I've owned it since new, during divorce it sat at skater, after divorce was final it went in storage until
the last few years when we were working on it.

Thats awesome! Pro-Stock to this day was one of the best classes Offshore has seen.

Very cool !!!! I currently own the 32 Skater pro-stock
( Stylin ) . Did you ever race against my boat ?

Larry

Yes

Well , tell me more !!!

Sorry I dont mean to HiJack the thread but there is a few 32AOB guys here that seem to know these boats. Any clue what my boat was raced as? It is an 87 and was a raceboat acording to Skater.

http://s29.photobucket.com/albums/c2...view=slideshow

The project looks awsome, cant wait to see it done.

Were was stylin originally race out of. Showdown raced all over the great lakes area, atlantic city,
virgina beach, etc. When we started to remove the contaminated core in the top of the tunnel, we ended up all the way up into the drivers compartment, and into the fuel tank lids, also had to remove the stringers. Thats when I thought working on it a few hours every few weeks, it would take to long for me to do the work. Thats when I went to see peter at Skater

Raced under US Offshore, same places as you. My dad throttled he said he remebers your boat. JAWS, Pennzoil, Euro Marine and many others were in the class

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I know what you mean about finding time to work on it. Its a good move to delegate

Any idea what you're going to do for engines yet or do you have some already ?

Turbo you might have my old boat mine was 3204 and was a 87 if so its the original Risky Business then many names after that. Last I knew of mine it was in Texas getting redone a few years ago

Bet this is the one, I bought it out of texas last year just after it got done. Can you shoot me some pics to [email protected]

Thats it , Glad the old girl is still running I will look for some pixs

i vote that you round up some 2.5 280s for your transom

OPT- P class was a great class that's why AGITATOR & our Skater came out to play. The Bridgeport 2.5 should have been more competitive but Mercury @ the time I feel put to many eggs in the ZRI Corvette engine & did not do enuff for the 2.5 OB. Cats like TUFF E NUFF, SHOWDOWN, STYLING, HIGH RISK ran great when all three engines were still running at the end of the race. It's a shame that todays fuels are killing these older Skaters fuel tanks. I know the guy that has our cat will be in for a shock to repair that Skaters tanks right. The name SHOWDOWN has had a great history as my old race Magnum was called SHOWDOWN back in the day,, racing P class back in the 70's..

Peter at skater said if the boat was built with vinyl ester
resin, which mine was, todays fuel should not effect it.
Being that we have the tops of the fuel tanks on my boat
off, we're going to do the fuel tanks just to be double
safe.

Good going, If you have Peter and his guys up there do it, they will do a great job, and while your boat is there have them retro fit with the newer style adjustable water pickups in case you have'nt already

Showdown has through the hull water pickups, that were installed right after picking up a
plastic ice bag over a nose cone during a race, running wide open and suddenly no water to
cool the motor, oops. How different are the ajustable ones? we would test the boat, bring it in and
file the pickup & keep repeating this until we saw slight decrease in water pressure to the motors, thats were we stopped, we never had any issues after that.

We only lost one PH in a race, we broke lower units mostly.
And if your talking about the few races they combined M and P. That was a joke. P Class screwed themselves into it with guys like Bill Gazelle and Nick Cutro claiming their boats ran 115. When really 105-108 was it back then.

I vaguely remember M & P running together for a short while and it made no sense to me. Nicky really said that? Geesh...makes no sense.

Yup. So when M and P running together was proposed, it didnt look too bad...half the boats in P already ran 115! FAIL lol

The professionals get to work. So there's no confusion- I'm just posting the pics for Bill (showdown 20).
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ps46a8283d.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...psac956a2a.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ps17421016.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ps5dee7c92.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...psf4b48759.jpg

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ps652c925c.jpg

WOW :eek:

Looks like a fun project, are you going to use more modern power? There is three 300xs outboards forsale in the classifieds.

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Awesome pics!

Please keep 'em comin'

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http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...psd564cdc4.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...ps2eae6010.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y22...pse956d9a9.jpg

looking good!!

update please

Did this project get completed?

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Is this showdown?

Photo credit: Tony @ Skater's ad

http://i1238.photobucket.com/albums/...ter/zoom32.jpg

Looks like it. I'll see if he has any more info to post.

Congrats! Either a 32 or a 28 is my next cat. What power? If twins stick with 3.0s 0r 3.2s. You will need three 2.5s to have fun! Congrats again as I hope to join the Skater clan this year.