New Shockwave 36 FS

[t3kops]

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[Ron Olson]

Shouldn't this be in the For Sale forum? I'm wondering why Remy would have one of these at his place.

[Hydro Junkie]

I see some problems with that boat, just from the pics. Turn fins are mounted wrong, and should there really be one on the left side? I don't like the fuel tank set up, can't tell if the fuel line to the carb is leaking or not with the line going through the bulkhead like that if there is any water in the boat. What's the deal with the opaque fuel lines? With that stuff, you can't see air bubbles to know if you have a leak. I would pull the whole works and put in a Sullivan Slant Top with regular fuel lines. I don't think I would trust the radio box set up either, being molded into the deck. Horizon/Pro Boat didn't learn with the Miss Dud radio switch and pushrod seals either. If it's a glass hull, it is better(in the pics at least) than the Dud, but if it's ABS, I wouldn't waste the money. I do have to give Horizon/Pro Boat a little credit(and I can't believe I just typed that) for using what looks like fairly decent running gear. At least it's real metal and not brass encased in fiberglass. I'm also surprised to see 1/4" ply engine rails and rubber isolated engine mounts. I'll have to look at one at the LHS when it arrives to really give an honest opinion.

[Ron Olson]

HJ, you need to look closer than what you see in the pix. One LHS has one so you know that I had to peek in the box! There are still a few typical Proboat problems, most that can be easily fixed in a few minutes. Yes, I thought that the turn fins aren't mounted properly and I would dump the left one too but that's the racer in me. Next is the driveline. There is no space between the drive dog and the strut, this is why the new owners are griping about have their flex cables breaking. Easy cure as you know, give it a 1/8-1/4" gap in there and/or remove that stupid spacer that they have filling in the space. Rudder beakage is one other problem. That's probably from the owners hitting things in the water. One guy hit a Gator with his! Modify the rudder mount so that it can break-away and swing up to prevent losing it. Most of this I've brought up before on this and other sites. I think that the stock prop is too large for that "little" motor plus it needs the sharpening and balancing act done to it.
Kinda ballsy and lazy to just link it to that site and not just post it in here.

[Hydro Junkie]

That's why I said I need to check one out at the LHS. There is no way for me to really give an informed opinion with just pics to go from, but what I saw in the pics was enough to make me NOT buy one

[Rosati]

My LHS just opened theirs while I was there today. I was inpressed with the running gear as well . It's pretty beefy. The prop was rusted and had fingerprints all over it, but it was sharp and smoothed pretty good.
I noticed the large open mounting area for the Dynamite 32 was almost big enough for a Zenoah or similar engine. I wasn't too impressed with the mounting of the turn fins or the strut, the flex runs out the transom and leaves no room to raise or lower the strut unless you extend the strut a bit. The rudder is cheesy, I can build one better. I think an AM rudder would work better. Anything bigger than the Prather 230 (I think this is what it had) prop will most likely hit the rudder in full turn.
The hull itself seemed much thicker than the Bud so Proboat did a bit of listening here.
Overall weight is about as heavy as my Nitro Vee but at 36" it seems to be a screamer from the video I watched taken by a local this past weekend.
The one I looked at toady also had no foam in the hull, but it is cavernous. You could stuff enough foam to float it more than half out of water!!!
I would buy it, for the price, you couldn't build one. (but then again, I haven't run one yet).

[Hydro Junkie]

If the hull is decent, it might be better to just order one from Horizon and set it up yourself. At least that way, you would be guarrantied of having good running gear