I am kind of in the same boat (pun intended) as I am unhappy with the perf of the Olds in my new boat, but I know a awful lot is being asked of it to pull a 23ft boat around with the speed I am used to in my 18ft 400cu in Horizon. I have seen at least 3 complete nearly new Olds for sale under $1500.  I don't know whether it make sense spend big $$$ to change over. I have always been a Mopar guy and I haven't ruled out going that route either. Does anyone know it I can get 450-500 ft/lbs of torque down low out an OLds 455 for cheap. I don't care about ever seeing 60mph.

There's lots of it. If you have any resto projects going on I would gladly send some your way. It won't show beer stains but it is sure to get people to notice your boat.

Towards the end of last year I bought the daycruiser of  my dreams ... I hope. For over seven years I have been looking for the biggest jet powered daycruiser I could find. I wanted good looks in a well maintained boat for not much money. So far the only drawback to what I found is a 455 Olds and a butt-ugly brown interior from the 70's. She is a 1974 Wreidt 23'6" that has been owned for about a decade by a marine detailer in LHC. I can find out very little about this boat and the company that made it. I think they are still in business somewhere in Texas, but I don't think they manufacture anymore. Can anyone tell me what to expect or look out for with my new ride. So far I have only seen one other like it and it turned up the very first time I took my boat out. Roost on

Wow that's quite a project you've got going. What is the long range plan for this old girl?  I had never heard of Wreidt boats before I bought mine and I have only seen one other on the water. I am guessing they must be well built or you wouldn't have kept it this long or tried to restore it. Are you going to repaint w/ metalflake?  What comes next? Details man we need details.  Good luck with it.

MMMmmmm . . . pink    I think I'm gonna have to go wake the wife.  Good night now, I'm out. 

Whoo hoo! My first post ... been lurking for about a week and like what I see. I have been skiing and tubing behind an 18ft Horizon that my parents bought around 1975. Most of the time it had a 400 chevy w/ a Z/28 crossram and a Corvette cam. Metalflake purple then, kind of a PeptoBismol pink now. Homemade rack for skis over the motor. Usually carries 2guys 3chicks n one skier. One time we actually got 5 people up behind it at one time. No sh*t. My grandfather owned the 500 acres just down river from Water Wheel until the early 1980's but that is long gone. Don't get me started on the Indians that run things now.
Last Sept. I bought a beautiful 23ft jet daycruiser from a marine detailer in LHC. I have been looking for a boat like this for over 7 years. My dream boat except for the Olds motor but that can and will be changed. Now me and the family spend most of the time at Perris and Elsinore. I don't want to ramble with stories of youth and debauchery but let me just say that some of my fondest memories have happened on the Colorado river and I just can't get it out of my system. Hell I've even eaten the freshwater clams from right out in front of the campsite. Ive seen the water so low that I could walk out to the center of the river where that tree stump has been for 40 yrs and set up my chair and icechest. I have had one of those 80ft cottonwood trees fall and crush my grandpa's mobile home while I was in it. I  (we) got so drunk once that no one tied up the boat and it was over 2 miles down river when we found it and pulled it back w/ a stand up JetSki.
If ya see a red and white daycruiser on the water locally and the driver is wearing one of those Chinaman hats & drinking a Pepsi w/ 2small kids sitting on the swim deck, idle on over. We love to party.