Well, it all started about 6 mo. ago,.. we had decided to upgrade the power in sues wild cat..
we wanted to go to 525 power,and full hydraulic steering,...She had had the boat for 4 season
trouble free, and figured,... might as well screw with it till it doesn't work anymore..

A little about the wild cat;

the Wild cat is a gary lench design and were layed up by them( same guy that did most all of the havasu and so cal builders hulls)

the wild cat bottom is very fast and forgiv'n .. very easy on plane , rocket out of the hole...
with the 496 ho, it was tested by HOTBOAT and top speed of 73 mph was obtained..

I added exterinal steering, and dana exhaust, and had prestige tune it... with enough prop changes to open a prop shop,..
I settled with a top speed of 77 mph...(GPS)

after doing the math over and over, and listening to sue keep asking when am I getting the new motor....

(lol... she's like a wheel bearing on a boat trailer that needs grease, everytime you take the boat out you have to listen to it till you do some thing about it..... )

we decided that it would be way cheeper and make way more sense to just buy a new boat.. (you can buy the new wild cats for middle 60's with a 496 ho).. not bad for a custom built boat...

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