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Here is my little fella. Roughly 380hp. Best run was 78.6mph. But is dances badly and is unsafe at speed. Have to trim way up and drive the hell out of it to keep it controlled. My plan is to raise the prop closer to the hull line and it should run more level and get some of the hull delta area...
Hi,
I have an LS 5.3 powered scarab sprint 18. Running an alpha gen2 with 1.50 gears.
I am going to attempt to convert my drive to a vazer upper gear case to raise my X dim. There is no other way to do it besides chopping up a upper alpha case and making a custom vertical shaft. Seen it done...
I rebuilt my little scarab sprint 18 from bottom to top, dropped in a healthy 4.3 with newer style Alpha gen 2 drive. I went with the billet 2 stick side mount shifter from dana marine. Im using the new button style shift killer assy.
Now to my problem, with this shifter I didnt need the sprung...