Very helpful for me but one thing I don’t understand is in the front deck when I was looking at making a recess tray and at some point have to replace the plywood but on that part it has gel coat fiber glass plywood and 2” rigid board insulation why does it have insulation under top potion of...
Just keep all pics coming on this project I have a 1986 stratos and hull # says it’s a 179v but colors on its and mine are exactly the same so when I have to tear mine down and I’m sure I will have to after I got it and started cleaning it out seemed like it was a ‘oak tree find’ rather than a...
Thanks for the info I hit 32.6 last night and tach read just under 5 which I think it was 4700rpms but ran smooth until I hit wake and it started ramping kinda scary and noticed fuel usage I’m not use in gas much as before I put some sea form I believe is what it is called and only have ran 1/4...
The lower I have now I got off a guy who worked for merc racing in Nashville and he said the lower I have is a gear ratio of 2.0 could explain top end but boy she gets up on plane fast with the hydrofoil
Yea I messed with trim last night and it hit 32.6 on garmin gps forgot to look at Rpms. I got some compression checker from Amazon a while back and I put it in the spark plug hole hit the key til it turned over checked and the 3 I checked had 0 so I did something wrong on that but I can tell u...
Ran smooth last night best it has ever planes out nice and quick max speed according to garmin was at 32. Thanks for all the input will try to remember it all
Yea I have never seen the plastic piece on any lower u it I got and got it on and other night took forever to get up on plane and pick up speed but hit 30 without trimming it out to see how fast it was dark and coming up on no wake zone reason I didn’t trim it but I have my hydrofoil on and the...
Florence alabama and 2.5 hours away I found a guy who was selling off everything he had so he could move and retire from engine work so for 250 I got entire merc 850 trying to get the aggravating shift shaft now to line up
