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Good topics and thankyou greatly for the comploment . the dash / does go up to the window ( sheild ) it did allow a little more room for gauges / electronics .

It seems i have heard of blue printing a bottom before , it's a very delicate thing , even heard of a man that largly modified his his pad and it caused the boat to climb to high and over at 72 causing some seriouse ingeries . As to the sharpend edges / seems to me that it would have to help ! As to the pad / i just watched a vid the other day on utube were a man heavely cuped his pad , yet the pad is not thick enough to dish it out , so looks like he had build the outer edges and would cause the boat to ride even higher .... i think to watch the vid of the boat it acts radical up there !

Alot of the actual drag boats have taken there windsheilds off to reduce drag/ yet it was designed that way to give down force ... back in the days when these boats were made they didn't have motors like they have today just to bold up to the back and not only that but the hulls were only designed to go around 70mph .

The boat i have modified ... is way too heavy because of the pre existing materials of the late 70's ...and is being treated and faired as a prototype in order to build a NICE plug off of it ... I'm thinking boat number 1 out of the mold will be hand layed carbon/kevlar and should allow for very impressive weight ! what if our boats were 800 - 1,000 lbs lighter ...
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balist placement of fuel cell and batteries

I sharpened all the edges on my viper bottom and made sure it was still pefectly straight.

My viper weighs 997 fully rigged but without gas, I'm hopeing to be lighter with the vking.

That's awesome ... i don't know much about the Viper's but you should be screaming with those kind of weight to horse power numbers .

Seems like with that motor and a 130 shot if nos doesnt that put you around 370 horse power , ahh that's pretty strong ! If you don't mind saying , what kind of gps top end numbers are you showing .

Either way , you must be having a ball , i sough on here were you blew away the big v-8 in board ...LOL loven it

Check this out , been hidden it for 7 yrs now and it's a true 300oc block 20 "ocean mid and low water pickup ( 1985 )
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This is an old pick of the previouse owner out of More Head city , NC / J T Bried of 70 west marina drag raced this old hull for years . ...[album][/album]

I'm not sure how much the 3.6 weighs but I know it's a bunch more than your 2.5. Your Stealth looks like it rides fairly high in the back compared to a stock stream but I still would do some testing before putting it on.

The viper and vector are very similar the only difference is the bow, the bottom is the same.

My motor is a fairly stock 2.4 200, just tight heads, reeds, and carbs so I would say a honest 340 horse motor. I'm not into top end but did take it up to 101.7 once with a 30 pitch. It will do 97 in the quarter mile with a 26 yamaha.

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looks real good

I really like that. Any shots of the dash?

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Nice work it looks great!

Thankyou for the comploments , they are always nice to hear because they certainly help to keep me motivated .

I can post some pics of the dash later on this week , i have all the guages hanngin out of the dash trying to get them all wired up now . The new hem will be here tuesday and maybe i can get it all done this week (night's) .

Thanks agian