need to sell
 

1985 30' stuphen ocean pacer. shes a beautiful boat, but i just bought a new house and dont have the time or the money for it right now. Its white with a red and a blue stripe. It has blown 454s with stellings stainless water injected headers and out pipes and kaama surface drives.

is this the boat from the cape? fairly stripped cabin, recent upholstery, throttles and transom glass to fit the headers?...
..if so, what a great ride!! i drove it on 9-11, but the mrd motors were "tired"...including starting issues..have you fixed her up? what have you done?...any pictures?
again, if it's the boat i'm thinking of, too bad you have to sell, but what a cool set up. if i can scan my old pics. i'll post them..
c

is this it?

yes that is the boat. i am going to put an ad in the classifieds with plenty of pictures. do you know the person that owned this boat then?

Damn chiristian, do you know every sutphen that ever exsisted or what!

I am not sure if its impressive or a little OCD!LOL

Hey! Christian heres those pics you were asking about.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...2/100_0080.jpg

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...2/100_0062.jpg

I own a 1987 33 outrageous brewster mass ,where is your 30 footer located ?

The boat is located in streator illinois. small town about 2 hours south of chicago.

what kind of money.......

hey ...

simsbury...."yeah, dad lets me drive in the driveway, in the driveway...yeah":crazy:

smokin...great work! best of luck...that boat is awesome, the trailer looks spectacular...

shaun...where do you run? there are a couple sutphen guys up that way, seen anything? how about a pic of your ride?

c

Im asking 28500 but that is very negotialable as this boat is not turn key. When I bought this boat the motors and transmissions were out of it. I rebuilt both motors and one of the transmissions. I have about 10000 worth of receipts for everything I bought. The motors and transmissions are in the boat and there is only a few minor things left to finish. The motors are 454 GM 4 bolt bowtie blocks, 4340 steel cranks and rods, trw forged blower pistons, crane roller cams and roller lifters, gm iron heads, roller rocker arms, 871 blowers and holley 4150 carbs. I have more pics if anyone is interested. As you can see from christians pics the trailer is different. I have about 50 hrs in rebuilding the trailer, including all new fenders and side steps, lights, brakes, paint , carpet, and some new steel beams.

shawn how are u doing I heard u bought a 33 some time back that's great any photos tell me a little bit about it thanks j aka Ice Scream PS please get the pump fixed for my mom thanks again j

its in the classifieds

That is a sweet Ocean pacer and it sounds like a great price!

Someone is going to end up witha nice ride out of that one!

Whats left to finish on the boat at this point?

I saw in the pics that the ignition etc wasn't wired but wasn't sure if it had progressed since the pics were taken.

Too bad you can't hold on to her. It'd be nice to at least run it for a little while after all the work you put in.

yes its to bad someone else will get to enjoy the fruit of my labor, but it needs to go. As you noticed the ignitions need wired, and coolant lines and trans coolers put in. The fuel lines hooked up and it needs throttle/trim cables. There may be a few other small things im not thinking of right off the top of my head, but nothing major is left.

Hey guys, for what its worth, i rigged all the boats from '85 to 90 and was proud of the boats that we built then. It's good to see one still holding it's head up high. I know how they were built because Richie made me start in the Glass and layup dept. for a month so I could see their construction. We were a custom boatbuilder and did Kama,Arneson,TRS,triple OB's, staggered etc.
The Ocean Pacer was the HotRod of the group and with raised "X" dimension you had to be nibble at higher speeds. We did two basic dash designs then. The "Pod" and the "Race" dash. Which one do you have?
Walt
Join date was the 2nd. time when 1st. registration was cyberized?

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...2/100_0073.jpg
what ever this one is.

On Ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1985-...QQcmdZViewItem

Good luck with the sale.

Yep thats it. I needed a little more help.

Ok, so I still toss around the idea of keeping this boat. Not sure if I want to run surface drive though. Whats the likely hood of the surface drives failing? What i mean is long term reliability. Would it be better to have bravo's than kaama's with the transmissions?

the market blows wanna trade.................


http://www.offshoreonlyclassifieds.c...o18247-en.html

Very nice boat!! Love the engine. In your signature it says you found your next project? Also still trying to figure out if you like cigarette boats or not.