You might consider the Excalibur. 72" 4 blade bowtie. Great push and good top end as well. They wok very well in direct drive applications. Just so happens I have one for sale.

To some degree, I would echo what Seven3 said. The biggest flaw in the 6.0 design is the head bolts. When International designed the engine, they used a minimal amount of head bolts. To make matters worse, they used what's called Torque-to-Yield bolts. Millions of engines of all sizes have used TTY ...

Here's a link to his FB page.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category ... 489544357/

Mitch Kline. Don't have his number but I'm sure somebody on here does. Better break out the wallet, though. He builds top notch hulls and charges for it accordingly.

Shoot for 2,600 on the trailer. Should give you 2,700 on the water.

Something to check I run a aeromotive boost reference regulator and I've had to replace the diaphragm twice now in a year. Gets a pin hole in it and starts leaking fuel out the vacuum port. I'll have to check that. My regulator does have the boost reference port but I do not have it hooked up (I wa...

I have diagnostic software that allows me to monitor virtually any aspect of engine performance. I'm running an Aeromotive Eliminator fuel pump with an Aeromotive Bypass Regulator. When I originally installed the engine, and up to about 100 hours ago, I had 63 psi fuel pressure that would drop to ab...

Nice looking boat. My guess is two-fold; first, it's a bowhunting setup so you have a very limited market from the get-go. Second, like any other high cost 'toy', the initial depreciation is very dramatic. Given those two facts, if you need to get it gone, you're going to have to lower your price. A...

SWAMPHUNTER45 wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:20 am

So years back our lost buddy "CROW" ...

Did something happen to crowhater?

Redline or Amsoil Severe Gear 250. Both are premium products. The Royal Purple? Not so much. Do a Google on gear oil comparisons.

I second the Brad Penn. Has everything you're looking for. Personally, I run the 20w-50.

Mast is a good choice but put your money down and buy a Waterthunder. You won't go wrong. The engines are built from the crank up to be used in an airboat. Dave has put tens of thousands of hours into his designs and they work. If I had it to do over, I would have gone that route.

I have a 15' DB that originally had the 8.1 Vortec on it, rated at 465 H.P. I managed to blow that engine and replaced it with an aluminum block LS engine. Made a huge difference in the way the boat rides. The 8.1 weighs 765 lbs, the engine I installed weighs approximately 500 lbs. Running dry is no...

Second on the 5.3. My buddy just recently put a 5.3 on a 14 ft Panther with stainless rigging. I think he paid about $700.00 for the engine, I gave him a cam I had out of my LSA, he bought a Holley FI system and bought headers from Norman Clay. All in he's got less than $3,500.00 into the engine and...

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Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:34 pm

Diggin you have a set of those boxes in yours...better make sure there’s no residue left in them LOL. My new one has a set as well.

If there's any residue in there, I'll have to blame the previous owner.

The older thurman hulls had heavy taper to drop the nose farther, those boats were built specifically to have a proper sized drawer on each side to haul a certain size package(s) that were extracted from certain areas back in the good ole boy days, wink wink. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: This guy.

Here's my setup. Triple in the back, side by side driver, double jump in front. I never had to worry about small kids so the rear driver didn't matter to me but I understand the concerns of people that advocate that. The boat is a Diamondback, titled as being 15 feet but the only way you get 15 out ...

So what you're saying is you believe that a gear box has more parasitic losses than a transmission, at least 2 u-joints, a differential, axle bearings and tire/surface interface? Or are you saying 500 whp is more than 500 crank hp? If the latter, duh. Do you think so? [emoji12] Sent from my SM-G950U...

Ran across this article today and thought I would share. Lots of great info.

https://www.lsxmag.com/tech-stories/eng ... to-riches/

Tim, here is a link to an article I stumbled across just this morning. It will definitely help you if you choose to go the LS route. My buddy just built a 5.3 and it pushes his 14 ft Panther great. Only mods he made is he put the old cam from my LSA in it and used Holley EFI and runs it through a 2....

Here's a link to the article my buddy had. I was a bit off on the specs. The 5.3 with the LSA cam made 389 HP at 5,600 RPM, not 385 at 6,200. Pretty interesting article. Could give you some good ideas to work from.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hotrod ... rison/amp/

So the LSA's are totally bad ass when set up properly, just a bit pricey for me now but if I had the extra ching it would be an LSA motor. Lots to read and learn on these LS motors, and lots of opinions on what to do here. I'll prob just go w a fuel injected 5.7 and your standard 2.68 box and hopef...

Speaking of accommodations, there is also Westgate River Ranch which is just a few miles from Grape Hammock and is a great place to stay; rodeo, saloon, trap and skeet, horseback riding.

I would imagine you could get good results with a Google search but another possibility is to call Grape Hammock, which is located at the south end of Lake Kissimmee, and ask them for a reference. I would bet good money more than a few guides work out of that camp. Another option would be to contact...

:rebel: You sure you want to run willows with that nice paint job. :rebel: As much as possible, I'll avoid them but unfortunately the trails around my camp are loaded with them. Luckily, I've opened the main trail to camp a good bit but a couple nearby trails that I'll have to use from time to time...