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Hello all,
First post here and had a performance question on my new to me 254 Kingfisher.
The short story is that my best friend passed last month and I inherited his boat
From his storys etc... I guess it started life with twin I/Os and those where pulled out, the stringers re-configured and the transom closed in and rebuilt.
It might of been a single OMC but I'll never know... looking in the bilge I see no evidence it ever had twins... or the conversion was that good.
He owned a boat repair shop from 1968--2017, the boat was bought by him in the above config with no power. He cut the transom open for a Volvo DP 290 and in went a 260 hp Chevy and the 290 Duo Prop with a set of B4 props.
Well he ran and loved it for the last 5 years... believe it or not I never got a chance to go for a ride. There was always a dozen different customers boats or otherwise to run or test.
Yesterday I brought her out of storage and got her running. Took her out and goes up on plane easy enough, runs 20/21 mph at 3000-3200 rpm and runs 32 mph flat out at 4500 rpm. Im happy with it but was wondering what you other folks with Kingfishers are getting performance wise.
Boat runs perfect and im not going to change anything... just curious.
Thanks
Tony
First post here and had a performance question on my new to me 254 Kingfisher.
The short story is that my best friend passed last month and I inherited his boat
From his storys etc... I guess it started life with twin I/Os and those where pulled out, the stringers re-configured and the transom closed in and rebuilt.
It might of been a single OMC but I'll never know... looking in the bilge I see no evidence it ever had twins... or the conversion was that good.
He owned a boat repair shop from 1968--2017, the boat was bought by him in the above config with no power. He cut the transom open for a Volvo DP 290 and in went a 260 hp Chevy and the 290 Duo Prop with a set of B4 props.
Well he ran and loved it for the last 5 years... believe it or not I never got a chance to go for a ride. There was always a dozen different customers boats or otherwise to run or test.
Yesterday I brought her out of storage and got her running. Took her out and goes up on plane easy enough, runs 20/21 mph at 3000-3200 rpm and runs 32 mph flat out at 4500 rpm. Im happy with it but was wondering what you other folks with Kingfishers are getting performance wise.
Boat runs perfect and im not going to change anything... just curious.
Thanks
Tony