www.iFourWinns.com

Sweet project, some day I hope to own a Liberator, but 1 engine would be enough for me, ha ha.

Engines are looking great. I can't wait until you can give us a report on how it handles and the speed you get.

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Birchfir
'86 261 Liberator
'05 Land Rover LR3
'06 300 SRT8
'67 Ford TBird
Madison, WI

thundercat what props are you running ?
Gregg

In addition to the props, what do you think your top end rpms will be for the props you will run?

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Birchfir
'86 261 Liberator
'05 Land Rover LR3
'06 300 SRT8
'67 Ford TBird
Madison, WI

The props are 22pitch Bravo II's with four blades. I will have to shop around for a pair of 26 pitch three blade to see what the top end looks like. We should be close to 1000 hp between them and I would expect getting close to 81mph on glass.
As far as the rpm goes, it is not a match up, as in 4000rpm is not 40mph, it's more like just under 60mph.
It is a little tough also as the speedo is off by around 6 to 7 mph. It reads slow.

It jumps out of the water really quick with no tab help and 6 people. I will be a little tricky with ski's.
As soon as it's on plane, bam! and your at 35mph and so learning when to pull back a little right on the pitch.


The one major thing to do yet it the buffing of the gel coat. It is really shiny, but has the white haze from the last owner leaving it set for over two years without the engines.

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1992 Baja 38 Special Twin 502 Mags

03 Stingray 3.0
88 261 Liberator 460 King Cobras
95 Bayliner 1850 3.0
77 Fiber Form 20ft 350/385hp
70 Wescraft 1800 SS 455 Jet

Lead, Follow, or get the Hell out of the Way!

I expect it will be around 5800 to 6000 rpm on the top. I will not hold that very long though. I won't hold my engines to max for very long in any boat. My race cars were one thing, these are another. If someone wants to put $$$ at the finish line, then I would........lol

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1992 Baja 38 Special Twin 502 Mags

03 Stingray 3.0
88 261 Liberator 460 King Cobras
95 Bayliner 1850 3.0
77 Fiber Form 20ft 350/385hp
70 Wescraft 1800 SS 455 Jet

Lead, Follow, or get the Hell out of the Way!

Handles like a dream. Cuts through most anything. I love it when your at a slow pace and it just cuts right through everyones wakes coming at you.

So far the best we took it up to was only 62mph. That was around 2/3's throttle.

It was a pretty good feeling at 55mph to hit the throttles and have it pull you back in the seat a little.

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1992 Baja 38 Special Twin 502 Mags

03 Stingray 3.0
88 261 Liberator 460 King Cobras
95 Bayliner 1850 3.0
77 Fiber Form 20ft 350/385hp
70 Wescraft 1800 SS 455 Jet

Lead, Follow, or get the Hell out of the Way!

thundercat if you should consider selling the 4 blades I may be interested.

Gregg

was 62 mph on a gps?

Of course.....

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One of 4 Previous (Sold) Boats:
2000 Four Winns 268 Vista

Current Boat: 2004 Chaparral 235 ssi cuddy

As the Capn says.

I know it's way under what it will do, but we are within a month now, maybe 3 weeks before it's out again to blow the dust off.
We will be finishing it off and putting it up for sale.
It is time for a new project again. We will see what happens and how the weather goes unitl then.

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1992 Baja 38 Special Twin 502 Mags

03 Stingray 3.0
88 261 Liberator 460 King Cobras
95 Bayliner 1850 3.0
77 Fiber Form 20ft 350/385hp
70 Wescraft 1800 SS 455 Jet

Lead, Follow, or get the Hell out of the Way!