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Message: [QUOTE="TurboM700, post: 777180, member: 59"] First off thanks for all the compliments. I really appericate them. It’s been an interesting summer with it. Spent this spring/winter (we had snow into may) polishing the toons and skinning the underside of the boat. Went to a SBC early in the yr that I ended up spinning a main bearing on it so I put the 4cyl back in. Need a new Bimini top as the old one from the boat well was old. Also wanted a wakeboard tower and a place to hanger speakers also wanted nice rolled tubing. Didn’t want to spend a arm and a leg on a bender so I made my own. This was the end result. Some pics of the build and the end result. [ATTACH=full]116531[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]116532[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]116533[/ATTACH] In the garge all welded up with the speakers and top on. Right before paint. [ATTACH=full]116534[/ATTACH] A week before memorial weekend the Wife and I closed on a cabin 2hrs north of where we live on a nice lake. Since then the truck and Boat stay up there. Instead of driving the truck home I use my car and trailer to bring the tower up. [ATTACH=full]116535[/ATTACH] Tower on the boat. Really like the way it turned out. I can pull to pins on the top and the bimini goes from 8’x12’ to 8’x6’. From there I can pull to more pins on the bottom and the entire thing tips back and the speaker rest on the swim platfourm. [ATTACH=full]116536[/ATTACH] Next on the list was to get the bow up. Made a hydro foil for it and got almost 10mph more out of her. [ATTACH=full]116537[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]116538[/ATTACH][/URL] Here is a video this is with the 4cyl in it. [ATTACH=full]116539[/ATTACH] Over the summer I kept my eye on CL for a cheap v8 boat so I could take all the running gear off the boat and install it in mine. (really wanted power steering). 2 weeks ago I found this on CL the lady said it ran put need a floor. She was asking 1k for it. After looking it over it had a cracked block outdrive was shot but everything was there. Gave her 200 bucks for it. [ATTACH=full]116540[/ATTACH] “removed” the motor the easy way. [ATTACH=full]116541[/ATTACH] Sold the trailer two days later with the boat on it for a grand. (800 dollars profit) Once again I looked on CL for a cheap motor and ended up finding to 5.7lSBC out of a house boat gave the guy 200 bucks for them. [ATTACH=full]116542[/ATTACH] They hadn’t been run for a while but compression checked out OK. My plan is to get one running and sell it off and then rebuild the other one. Running marine SBC go for about a grand around here. The 2nd motor I’m thinking alum heads and intake a nice marine cam and call her good. I also im going to install a 3rd pontoon that goes all the way back to the motor pod along with lifting strakes on all the toons. I’m pushing for 50mph out of her next yr. O yea some pictures of the boat on Labor Day weekend this yr. 700 people on a sand bar with not a cloud =good times. Wife infront of the boat. [ATTACH=full]116543[/ATTACH] Friends on the boat. [ATTACH=full]116544[/ATTACH] A little beer bong off the back. [ATTACH=full]116545[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]