I have a 78 Tahiti. I've been building for about a year now. I'm finely done thank god. I grew up with jet boat and finely bought my own. Boat was cool and rocked it for about 4 years. The hull was falling apart and got sick of repairing it. I learn alot from it. I took the motor out and sold the hull. I found this hull with out motor and want to start from scratch. I went through the motor witch is a BBC 454. I chance alot of things and just started from bear block. I new it was going to be a process but ready for it. I'm off to a hot rod. Long story short I'm done and proud of what my boat had came out to be. I'm motor head from heart and just was a fun project. I was finely able to test for the first time Friday. Boat ran great and no regrets at all. Thanks to all the input and things everyone post on ideas. I did not write much but did read alot what everyone had to say about other issues. Well here is my boat for the first time on the water after a long time of build and money. Well done and very proud of the out come.