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Bill's Checkmate ZT 240 is born!

Bill,
Have kip send you a 23 3 blade instead the top in is quite a diffrence from the bravo 4. Trust me. you sound like a top speed guy like me. We will run them at the rally in august. Of course i might be supercharged by then..Ha Ha

"I LOVE THE ARMY"Where else can you travel to beautiful places, meet foreign exotic people an KILL EM !!
 
Disturbed, thanks for the advice, but too late, it is on the way, I planned on picking up the 23 mirage plus When I could find a deal on one. Can't wait to the Rally!!!!!!!!!!
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Kip, Thanks for the help, it is nice to see you take the time you do to deal with customers! You are right sh** happens to the best of us. Not the first time nor the last. Again, AWESOME BOAT
 
Hey Bill,
Call Julie at "Throttle up propellers" they are great people to deal with. i don't have the number on me here at work ,but you can get it on fastboats.info under tech questions, under the thread "props".You can get a labbed 23 mirage plus for about 385.00.

"I LOVE THE ARMY"Where else can you travel to beautiful places, meet foreign exotic people an KILL EM !!
 
385.00 for a labbed?!?!?!?!?!? That is around what a dealer pays for a "regular" Mirage plus. WHy so cheap, are they rebuilt? Either way, I will call thaem! Thanks for the informatinve infi disturbed!
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Sorry Bill. That was 385.00 plus 100.00 for labbed= 485.00 shipped to your door in 2 days.

"I LOVE THE ARMY"Where else can you travel to beautiful places, meet foreign exotic people an KILL EM !!
 
Thnaks Kip, prop came today already, your are fast!

Disturbed, WOW, that is still relly cheap for a labbed prop! I will add them to my comtacts. Thanks!
 
Actually no, Waiting for my bill of sale to arrive
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It has been in the 70's and 80's, so I just work on it wishing I could be on the river.
 
Now that the story of the building of Bill's boat has been told, I'll send this thread over to Play to Win where we can continue the fun.
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I am going to take it to work tomorrow so I can out gas in it, run it and make sure everything is okay, I don't know if Checkmate did or not. Then I am going to buff out all of the the compound and swirl marks from the factory, then I will get a good pic in the sun. If everything checks out with the motor and drive, I will run her this weekend.
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Try to take a really good pic of her Bill and we'll use it for next months boat of the month. Try to take one of those from the front on an angle pics.
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Bill:
I will do my best for you Chris, though I do not think it is deserving!<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Bill Bill, You own a brand new ZT-240, amazing boat, and you don't think you deserve to be there?! IF so, whose boat should be there. Don't say JW or Gus because they will all get their turns...

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I said this before, but anyone can go buy a new boat, I thing someone who has taken alot of time to make an old Mate look awesome is more deserving than me. I think my old Diplomat derserve to be up there before the new ZT240. That Diplomat has a better finish than the new boat, for now that is, I am hard at work at buffing and polishing it to get the factories scratches out!
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After 6.2 hours of running, here are my numbers...54-55mph at 5200-5300 rpm with the 22 Bravo one. I have a 23 Mirage plus on the way I want to try. Those numbers are with 3/4 fuel, 4 people and calm water. I know the calm water hurts some, but as the chop grows, so should my rpm's then at that time I will be bouncing on the rev limiter. Kip, you mentioned break in oil, did you guys put oil in the fuel tank for extra lube during break in? The boat came from you to me , never made it to Green Bay for them to go over, anything I need to know? There seems to be a drive train howl through the midrange that some down here say it is normal and some say it is not. Any hints. No one here I am finding out will take the time to really help me with questions because the boat is not from around here. So... am I s.o.l or what?
 
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