Can not say about the quality or ride but there are a lot of big name boat and yacht manufactures using vacuum infusion.

I would certainly take a look a Woods and Waters (Paul Jackson ) Havik Hull. He build a great light boat. I have also seen that Outlaw is doing vacuum infusion.

Can never go wrong with a Marty Bray or Jimmy White.

What he said^ I have seen all kinds of bad stuff in out of the box carbs. Get the manual and make sure every thing is correctly set-up ie float. Also look up tuning an Edlebrock. It is very basic and easy to tune. I have put 3 of them on buddies airboats (against my recommendation) and all required ...

I do concrete and masonry as well but we work in gainesville.

There is a guy named David smith, he is on the facebook SA and I know he does great concrete work.
FYI it is a concrete pool deck. Cement is an ingredient in concrete.

For efi the original computer will work but you need something like HP tuners ( just 1 of several oem tuning softwares) to change the parameters. I helped build a few boats for friends all with junkyard motors. Most have had over 100k on them when pulled. 1st 3 were done with a carb and MSD boxes. 2...

Not an exact comparison but close in Hp/tq. I ran a stock carbed 5.3 with a 2:1 gearbox. Motor was on a 14x7-6 alumitec with SS rigging set-up with 3/8" poly for fishing the gulf. The motor was straight out of a wreck truck with 113K then was on a buddies boat for 2 years before I got it. (so i...

Did mine in a buddies break set line mark 1/2" apart did slight bend at each one. 2 of my buddies got rakes from alumitec the turn out very nice.

You still got the same number?

Did you try Alumitec? May be Gene Babbet.

I built my own, did a cardboard mock up, cut my pieces then had a buddy weld it for me. Certainly not perfect but it does the good and cost about 300.00.

Very Nice

When it comes to raising or lowering the bow it is no different than outboard power trim. Raising the rear of the motor raises the bow to a point. Lower the rear of the motor pushes the bow into the water. I would check the bottom of the hull and set motor level then work from there making little ch...

Made a great friend by pull him from bear bluff back to the jolly gator. His mechanical oil line let go, bad day. My old 472 DD caddy pulled a 14' airgator with a 220 back to the ramp on plane. Had to drag it to some skinny water to get going but made it all the way on plane. Interesting part was th...

Buddy Branch's phone number is 352-7nine7-991zero

Try this it was posted by deano in another post.

What rotation are the props you have? DD and Belt-drive are left-hand and gear-box is right-hand rotation. Also 72" is a fairly short prop for a gear-box I ran a 81.5 2 bld R on a 5.3 (maybe 285hp) with a 2:1. Then changed gearboxes, went to a 2.68 with a 79" 3 bld R. Also set-up a buddy's...

10 years sounds good to me for poly, I change mine about 3yrs. Where we fish is a little rough during the winter months.

I have not run the blue iron, but have run black, gray and gatorslide (had some extra material added) none of them have lasted any longer than the other.

Sensenich has never steered me wrong

We fished saturday. Went north, was ok a lot of 14-16 inch fish but only 3 mid slot and 1 small trout. Another very low tide day.

Still had a good time with friends.

I have built 4 ls gulf fishing boats (2) with 5.3's and (2) with 6.0's. The 1st 2 5.3 motor were straight out of the junkyard and put msd setup on it. Motor had 113K verified miles on it when we put it on the boat over 7 years ago. It is on a heavy alumitec deckover with very little running bottom. ...

Don't get to hung up on prop RPM, a 80, 82 and 84" can all be around max rpm but will have very different tip speed

I have about 1.5" from my prop to the top of my cage.

Looks like a great day and some nice fish. Water looks a little clearer than it has been.

You fish north or south?

Look up midwest control they have heavy duty all Stainless quick disconnect cable ends https://midwestcontrol.com/shop/Qi312 I also use a double return spring all stainless My pedal is set up that way, but it is homemade. Check with Chris from http://www.airboatstuff.com see he has. He is in Brooksv...

I had a LQ4, I used a set of 706 heads (can find them cheap like 100.00) these heads had a 61cc chamber bumps your compression to about 10.3. The 706 have a smaller runner which keeps the velocity where is should be. I took the 2.00" valve from my 317 heads that came on the LQ4 and had them pol...

If I am not mistaken he had alumitec build him a boat to fit his existing rigging.

And yes never ahead of the game with an airboat.

On this forum there is a list of different areas of the state for people to post there info if they are are willing to help. I keep a copy in my boat for my area.

As CMB list the link above if you do a search there are a number of goes articles related to LQ4/LQ9. On facebook Richard Holder of westech does a lot of testing on the lq4/9 ith different heads and cam combos. I have used a few junkyard motors both carbed and EFI, mostly stock or very mild cams. (3...

We went North both sat and sun, tide as supper low and very rough on the poly but we had great luck both days. Found a few holes with a number of mid slot fish and a few top of the slot with 2 over slot. Found 3 trout each day all over 18". Was windy and cold sat. The wind backed off and was ni...