Trips to Twins....
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Trips to Twins....
Have to ask the question to the experienced ones.... what would it take to turn a early 90's Lightning w/ Triples, into a twin engine boat ? Remove the engine, drive train, lower unit, steering... then glass in the transom. What else am missing besides a new dash and paint to boot.... ? The money you deposit from the sale of all the parts, would pay for the renovation... right ?
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I've always gone by this statement " It takes 15 % of the time and budget to do 85% of the work. The remaining 15 % kills you". That dash panel alone will cost more than the lower unit you remove.
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you need to start fresh with a new transom cut some stingers down and move others around determine how high and how far apart you will mount your drives then you need to mount your motors and motor mounts almost square to the drives its a lot of work I have a twin dash and shifters if you need them
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tnt1 - your engine room looks awesome and you have a very nice loking boat. but not really wanting to stagger the engines, just wanted to leave the two side by sides and take the thrid ( in front ) out. Are you running ext boxes with bravo's or something bigger... SSM's ?
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tnt1 - your engine room looks awesome and you have a very nice loking boat. but not really wanting to stagger the engines, just wanted to leave the two side by sides and take the thrid ( in front ) out. Are you running ext boxes with bravo's or something bigger... SSM's ?
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if you stay side by side its fairly easy, I bought ours after the center was filled in and changed the dash,gages,etc. of course I had nothing to sale to recoupe anything.
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Side by side is easy just fill In the holes and change the dash. Staggered is a ton of work, but worth it when it comes time to twist some wrenches or gain every last mph.
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You might want to check this thread out... LOTO buddy doing the same thing, although I'm sure he's going to stagger them. Conversion stuff starts around page 3. Good luck.
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/f...iple-800s.html
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/f...iple-800s.html