75 Spectra V-Drive

[Paul65K]

I dropped the boat of with Scott Schatz at S&S Performance and Marine. Here's a couple pictures of his shop and some of his projects.

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What happened to the pictures??

[78Southwind]

He looks pretty busy and that is a good thing! What are you having done?

I think he is working on five boats right now. The rest are there for storage. There's three or four guys there that sublease from the guy that does the boat storage. One guy does welding, Scott said he does all of his custom header work. Scott is pretty much a one man band and does all the other work himself. He has an engine build room too. I'll see if I can get some pictures of the engines he's working on next time I head out there.

I am getting an Aluminum blast plate built and installed.

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[78Southwind]

What happened to the pictures??

I am not sure. I posted them again and they're back up.

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[78Southwind]

I went by Scott's shop today and he started routering out the bottom for the Blast Plate.









Scott said that the strut hole where the prop shaft goes thru is somewhat oblong but he is going to fix it so I shouldn't have any problems. It's kind of interesting because I was told that Greg would go thru strut barrings every year. This was probably why he was having this problem. You can see it in this picture.



Here's a picture of the filler plate where the old strut was that was used to act like a small blast plate. Maybe I can get some money for it if I recycle it.

[78Southwind]

Here's a couple more pictures of Scott's shop and some engines he's working on.

[78Southwind]

Kind of funny thing today...When I was talking to Scott he told me one of his customer's came in and said that the reason he bought his 1981 Spectra is because of this Spectra. To top it off this is one of the guys from another forum that recommended me to use Scott. He didn't know that I had bought Greg's old Spectra so he was kind of surprised when he saw it at the shop. Here's his 1981 Spectra.

[WESTERNAERO]

So what's going on with the prop, shaft, or alignment to wear that bore oval like that? What material is that strut? Has Scott given you any clue as to why that's happening?

[78Southwind]

So what's going on with the prop, shaft, or alignment to wear that bore oval like that? What material is that strut? Has Scott given you any clue as to why that's happening?

He said he thought it might have been from too much heat when the steel strut was welded together. I will talk to him more about when he get's done with the blast plate.

[WESTERNAERO]

He said he thought it might have been from too much heat when the strut was welded together. I will talk to him more about when he get's done with the blast plate.

So the bore warped/oval'd when it was welded, not from some odd side load or vibration or something like that. He thinks it was like that from day-one, right? Just being curious, is all.

[78Southwind]

So the bore warped/oval'd when it was welded, not from some odd side load or vibration or something like that. He thinks it was like that from day-one, right? Just being curious, is all.

Yes, from day one.

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