Quote Originally Posted by ogshotgun View Post
i have verified the headers with rewarder thought the same thing .. rewarder calls them a bell end long tube up swept v drive header.. i had a pair of jet boat headers at first from a ebay ad saying they were off a drive but they were way up there almost a 45 degree angle unless i put them on backwards "hence my comment", as far as not knowing what degree everything is is false i made a mistake on the box and corrected it.. you ever make a mistake ? so now aim being held liable for a mistype which i did correct the v-drive is 12 degrees had it rebuilt at casale a whirl away installed and 29 gears and a new plate thats how i know its 12 degree,, now as far as the strut its stamped 10 degree in two places so is the shaft log ,, so thats how i know,, i have never checked the motor angle but i will when its all re rigged ,, yes plugging the hole in the bottom for the shaft and drilling a new hole is about 200 bucks not bad at all , now i need to flip the boat over and fill the strut and have that recut too maybe 250 , than a new strut , shaft log , prop shaft , v drive its over 5,000 bucks to change the angle the boat is stable aim not a racer and yes it sits at the races on the trailer all shiny , but i did not contact anybody about putting my boat in on or between anything they came to me,, itys not a billy b paint job its not a 140 mph runner bottom on alcohol its not a k-boat its a old wriest and its fine with me...i didn't put any picture comments because it will turn into a pissing match of i did it wrong or this or that ,, once again i am just redoing whats there not reinventing the wheel my friends..one thing i can say is un like most flats that sit on the trailer at the river or lake waiting for a perfect pass. i have mine on anchor all day all weekend in fact ill put it in aslip and leave it there over night .so some one looks at a picture of my upswept headers and says wow your engine is at a STEEP angle well look at the valve covers and make the same comment, i sand blasted the trailer because it had house paint about 1/4" thick.. didn't care to brag.

and he's the world champ because he doesn't share every single detail about his set up..