Pro's & Con's of going from XR Sportmasters to Arneson's?
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Glad to hear this choice! Let me know if you need to try props, we've still got what we ran on Frisco Cat and a few more available from Dr Evil. Rik knows what worked and didn't work on Carlos' boat so you're way ahead of the game.
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I'll be giving you a shout when we get ready to splash her after we get this and some other mod's done, and yes they do look pretty cool while sitting still.
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There is a pic of this boat on page 2 of the latest Powerboat and sure appears like the notch is still there. Can you comment?
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I have an older Kaama surface drive set up and as far as low speed handling goes around the docks w/wind and current I will generally trim them way up into the trl.position. By doing so, I force water downward below the transom when backing down instead of directly against the flat transom, just a trick that I found works well. Can walk her butt sideways just fine in reverse, even pull her side to side with 1-engine in gear and the other in neutral. just a few things to think about. Good luck. A surface drive IMHO is the way to do it !
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No pics yet, waiting for the boat to be finished getting painted...Got a call today and the colors are going on later this week....
We had an issue with the shipment of the drives being damaged by the freight company and are waiting for replacements...
Should be just a couple of more weeks till it's ready for them...I'll definitely post some pics of the process...
We had an issue with the shipment of the drives being damaged by the freight company and are waiting for replacements...
Should be just a couple of more weeks till it's ready for them...I'll definitely post some pics of the process...
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Looks like were back on track, the drives mysteriously arrived back at Arneson today and Rik is going get them ready to ship back out...
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Please keep us informed, I really like this project.
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Paint's starting to go on...base coat of yellow pearl before the getting the other colors...Shouldn't be too much longer before it heads back over to get the motors and drives installed...