After crashing the white one, I needed another boat. I didn't want a winger, cuz everyone has wingers...so it had to be a tunnel. Something relatively safe to 100+. After getting thrown, I also saw value in the T-deck. I searched high and low and found this one in Mississippi. It's a Southwind Tunnel Dragster bottom with the T-deck top from the Southwind Formula 19 that had been modified to fit the tunnel bottom. The boat was manufactured in Texas buy Eddies Custom Boats, who from what I'm told used to be part of southwind and built all the boats for southern/eastern states. I guess what I've got is pretty rare. I've seen one other for sale, and they're asking something outrageous for it. I wired the guy a deposit and he towed it out to parker for me if I paid gas one way. I picked it up Sat. night. It's a little dusty from 1800 miles of towing. The paint is 10 years old but the boat hasn't been in the water since it was painted...so it looks great. It's got some hillbilly touches that I've got to get rid of, but overall it looks like I got a decent deal.
The motor is supposedly a 13:1 468 deal with a decent bottom end and venoila pistons. It's got dart Pro-1 heads on it and I can see aluminum roller rockers and a stud girdle through the breather hole, Dominator carb, dart intake, MSD 7 series crank trigger, 2 stage nitrous setup with MSD nitrous retard, a shitload of AN lines....looks good. I need to go through the carb cuz it leaks out of everywhere right now. The headers are rewarder twisties that have ZERO rust anywhere, and are only slighly blued on 3 of the tubes right by the head.
The pump is a bit odd...looks like a berk, and it's got some sort of race nozzle on it. Strange part is that the race nozzle has no outlet for reverse thrust to exit with the bucket down, but it still has the pivot holes for the reverse bucket. Seems dumb. I'll try to post more pictures of it later. The bowl also looks a bit odd....has an "S" cast into it and the oil fill holes look a lot closer together than I've ever seen on a berk bowl. Any ideas as to what I've got here? Dunno what impeller is in it, but It's got a loader and a shoe.
The plan:
Tear the whole thing apart, throw the bass boat seats in the trash, put a new motor together using the best from both my old motor and this one, then button up the extra pieces to have a complete turnkey deal from the rail kit to the scoop to sell someone who wants to do a swap....hopefully recover some cash. I'll also be figuring out which combination of pump parts works best for me and building another pump out of the leftovers to sell...recover some more cash.
I'm gonna try to have the motor out tomorrow, I'll updated with pics as we go.
