Vector speed

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Apricot.....

[Instigator]

I remember meeting Kev the first time.

He stopped in a Evinrude dealer i was working at in I think, ‘1989.

He saw our V-8 we had on a Checkmate Starliner and wanted a price on a Second Effort V-8.

Had his Vegas W/two jack plates and a 2.4.
First Id ever seen 2 jack plates.
Dont remember how fast he told me it was, 86 maybe??
(When us fast guys were running 75 - 80!)


I DO remember his dad and his tow vehicle.
A ‘1968 or so, white Coupe Deville!

No back seat.
Thats where all his tools and props were!

Told me he and his dad drove all over the place, chasing other fast boats!

I thought i had just met Elvis!
Coolest guy, and dad, EVER!

Sorry for the thread hijack LargeCar.

91 I'm guessing, just before the 2.5's came out. We did used to race a yellow sea plane that would land on the bay once in while, thing would only go about 80, but it was a cool thing to talk about. I did have a Stars and Stripes Viper, had one of the last inline 6's on it, two jack plates.....same ones as the Vector. Used to run a 26" chopper with that engine, best part of that boat was racing bass boats with V-6's and beating them. They would run in the 60's back then and here I come with a 115hp passing them up out on Berlin. Could run all day with that engine and two 6 gallon portable tanks. That was a fun boat.

We thought we were bad a$$e$ until we went to Norris lake and ran into a Vector with a Mod-VP, he was in the teens when that was unheard of. He ran by me and Kev, guy with the V-8 Vegas, like we were standing still.

Franken OMC was no slouch either Gator!

I have spent many years running Streams and Skaters, If you have any questions about set up, between me and gator, I'm sure we have the answer.

[Capt.Insane-o]

apricot.....

orange!

[Capt.Insane-o]

Another terrible day.

[Dave S]

I bought my vector about 15 years ago......$200 with the trailer.......used it once with a 90 cid stacker as a test mule/boat.......put on a 80 hp for dog rides.... beach fun /crusing with the wife. Did a floor and partil core 5 years ago. Last 2 months I have been sanding and rattle can sprayin. The paint was SHOT.......used red anodize coating to bring back the clour and $5 dollar clear coat......brung back the sparkel for a bay bomber. I work on it more than I have used it It is a 1980 boat and I have a ?......it has what looks like repairs/buliges on the sides that don't look non factory......is it possibale the factory did an out of mold repair? the metal flake matches......The area of the bulge is6 inches wide 3 inches below the rubrail and starting from about the dash to back of the boat and you can see the woven texture in the jelcoat.........The rest looks normal.........

[Capt.Insane-o]

Oh I did do the rod slot cut. Not even sure where this motor came from. I think I have 750 bucks in the total build. Throwing a horn on it with a spacer and a 7500 rpm pro max tune in the down time and see what happens. Had the heads off today and it looks perfect