I hate to do it, but need to put the Canyon up for sale before getting it back on the water. I'll be testing and sorting it it out at the river the week of 9/12 so interested parties can see it pimples and all while I test. The hull is from the 19' Placecraft tunnel molds rigged quite well for 1991. Boat was last registered in 1995 and sat for decades. Engine was rebuilt years ago, but was obviously run very little before it was parked. Have been bringing it back to life slowly over the past 11 months. Interior should be re-done, but buy a couple race buckets and you've got a river racer. Kind of amazing how little wear there is on a 25 year old boat. Perfect? No, but the price is a steal to get into a Placecraft design tunnel.

Details are below
Gen IV 4 bolt main 454 .030 over
Approx 12:1 forged pistons
Offy dual quad tunnel ram modified for sidemount Holley 6109 750's (rebuilt)
Mechanical roller cam, unknown make/specs
Mildly ported 990 heads
Blocker loader
Berkeley split bowl, unknown impeller cut.
Manual Place diverter
Milodon 10 qt pan
All new control cables
New 27 series battery
New wood in passenger seat
New tires (car)
Hubs cleaned/inspected/re-greased
$10,500 obo

What is the top speed and where is this boat located?

Last thing to be touched..... figured a new shaft seal wouldn't be a bad idea.
Aluminum "A" impeller with little to no wear on the impeller or shaft, stuffer in the bowl. No surprises.... unreal how little use this boat had.
 

What's that grill hiding back in the garage?? 😎 that's a nice boat by the way! Good luck with the sale! Sucks that you are letting it go after breathing life back into such a sweet find...


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That's the wife's '31 peeking out. Finishing it was put on the back burner to get the Canyon done by Labor Day. In retrospect, it probably wasn't one of my better decisions.

Did you guys test drive it today?

Putted around the channel. Facebook is your friend. Gonna be too windy tomorrow, so probably go on the river Wednesday.

Facebook? 


SCJB or it didn't happen. 

Dan'l

Facebook? 


SCJB or it didn't happen. 

Dan'l


Tottaly agree! I dont have fb or any type of social media or anything. SCJB is my social media and all i need!!

Looks and sounds great btw roost!!!

Very Nice!!!  

River looks full, 5 units?

Dan'l

Was a little breezy yesterday so waited until 5:30 to launch. 5 units and it calmed down a bit. I probably should have put the baffles in, but oh well  .
Blown out today, so it'll go in again tomorrow to get the idle set see what it'll do on the river.

What is causing the reversion issue?   To much cam?


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If anyone's interested in the Canyon, I'll have it out testing the same weekend as the Fall Get Together (10-8). I'll be down river from Big Bend between the pipeline and Harry's   

Looking for the right buyer that'll appreciate this. Don't want to deal with CL and explain why this isn't an ideal fishing boat and what kind of mileage it gets 

I know that Shelley won't like this advice but I think you just need to throw the stroker engine in the tunnel and keep it. Trust your instinct you're not going to like CL.

How'd she run this weekend?


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Was more concerned about motor than setup this weekend. Spun it up to 5k a few times real quick, and had about 10 minutes of consistent 4500 from Harry's to Big Bend.
That said, I have the ride plate at 4* and a couple things need to be addressed. The loader KILLS the holeshot (figured a blocker would), and need less shoe. GPS only showed 60 and I wasn't even in it. 'Course it fell in the sponson when I nailed it so who knows how fast it was REALLY going.
It would be faster with just a couple race buckets in it, but there's an ex-Placecraft TF racer in Texas interested so that won't happen on my dime unless I have it come Spring.