I thought I would start a thread on the build, take apart, and rebuild of my 43 GT. Since I have owned it for 2 years and this is the 3rd time the engines are out.
To give a bit of back story I bought the boat as a repo with no power, no drives, no gauges and a bunch of other things were missing, broke or gone. The below pics show the condition I bought it in. I will post pics going back to the beginning when I first brought it home.
My new goal for the boat is for it to turn heads and run 100 everyday of the week.
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09-13-2012 05:08 PM
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09-14-2012 09:06 AM
keep sending pics, very cool to see how far it has come, you did a great job
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09-14-2012 12:32 PM
One thing with this boat I could never get rid of the musty smell in the cockpit area. I figures the smell was coming from the seats and intended on doing the rest of the interior anyhow. No time like the present. Out the interior comes and off to McLeod Designs in Madison Heghts, MI. They did the redesign on the hatch and did a great job. By the way this cockpit interior does not come out easy at all. What I found when I got it out was much of the backer boards were crumbling. I think I found the culprit.
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09-14-2012 12:41 PM
Here is pic that a took within the last few days that shows quite a bit of prgress to the current disassembly. I am seriously thinking about making this boat a staggered configuration. I am working on a 3D model to make sure I don't run into any hidden surprises. I would like to hear some of your thoughts. Please keep them constructive.
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09-14-2012 12:15 PM
So... I think I will fast forward a bit. Over the past winter I decided to upgrade the engines from the 454's to 598's. They made over 800 hp and 852 ft lbs of torque and still building. I was able to get it done to run in the Boyne Thunder Poker Run but just barely. I maybe had two hours on it prior. There were a few issues at the beginning of the run, like a powersteering belt comimg off and eating part of the blower belt. Jim Valako happened to be with me at the time and said lets get a belt and see if we can get it back together. So thats what we did. The boat ran pretty well for the majority of the run (77 @ 5000rpms) until the last leg I noticed I lost about 200 rpm's on the starboard motor. It ended up being a valve broke causing havoc throughout the engine. Out the engines come and off to the machine shop. Which leads me to where I am at now. The below pic is engines in process of removal.
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09-14-2012 08:27 PMChanging to staggered would be a ton of work. Do you think that would make enough difference to be worth it?
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09-14-2012 11:35 PM
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09-15-2012 07:52 AMThe hatches as they are currently Artie.
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09-15-2012 09:36 AM
Thanks for posting the pics. As I stated the cockpit interior is getting redone right now and I have to choose a color scheem. You can see from the hatch I eliminated red, so that leaves me with white, silver carbon fiber, purple and yellow. I am thinking about putting the silver carbon fiber where the purple is and purple where the red is, but then I think there will be a lot of purple on the side pad. Whats your thoughts?
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09-23-2012 10:07 AMGetting bad advice is unfortunate, taking bad advice is a Serious matter!!
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