dingleberry's new ride

[evil0ne]

Want to go to Echo on Monday?

[dingleberry]

Want to go to Echo on Monday?

lemme check with the Mrs. - not sure if anything was set yet - are you meeting others?

[da.bell]

Nice setup and I am sure you are going to like the boat.

[evil0ne]

lemme check with the Mrs. - not sure if anything was set yet - are you meeting others?

Depending on the weather we are. My buddy will probably have his Sea Ray out there and will probably be doing more chilling then riding the way the weather looks.

[talltigeguy]

WOW, nice looking boat! CONGRATULATIONS!

Don't worry about the ballast, you can install one yourself with more lbs for less $$. Send SPBFAN a PM and check out my RZ2 and Coach's RZ2 ballast install.

I installed about 2000 lbs of ballast for around $2500.

Anyone know how much the new ballast system will cost? I think it might come in pretty cheap...although I am sure the cost will be upgraded a bit to the consumer, but think about it. All the new ballast system entails is 2 built in hard tanks and a gate valve. Piece of cake to make.

Dingle,

The boat looks awesome! Great color scheme. I notice the vinyl seems very white...can the vinyl come in an eggshell type color instead?

[Moki]

Sahhhweeeet Ride! I could look at 100 more pics of that boat and still enjoy it.

[larryueckert]

well its about time dingleberry j/k ....thanks for the pics now you owe 96 more pics to make 100 congrats on your boat that thing is sick...

[Fast1911]

AWESOME RIDE DINGLE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SPBFAN]

Very nice toy. I bet with that single exhaust the boat runs much quieter than the ones with dual exhaust. I am certain that the PCM moves the boat through the water very smooth quick also.

[Fast1911]

when is the maiden voyage?

[gman]

zad0030 you said the following: Single exhaust, PCM trait. I think MB sports and Mastercraft both have dual exhaust and use the PCM motor. Didn't tige have dual exhaust with PCM motor? In my opinion it would look a lot nicer with dual exhaust. To me the single exhaust looks weird. Does tige plan to go back to dual exhhaust?

[da.bell]

No, IMO single exhaust is because of the cat converter that is CA mandated for all 2009 boats and I think the rest of the nation is requiring them next year.

[gman]

dabell,
the malibu boats have a ETX/CAT (catalytic converter) on their 2008 boats and they have dual exhaust.

[yellow3]

seeing how much catalytic converters cost nowadays, this might be a shortcut to keep costs down by using only one instead of two.

[dingleberry]

do u have a pic of the 8 ft bimini top? does it just zip on the additional 4 ft to the standard 4 ft bimini? my 4' has a zipper at rear all the way across.

Spolk - well, I haven't gotten a shot yet of the bimini from outside the boat, but here is a shot of it from underneath - just a 2' extention that zips on the back, and you use longer support poles that push into the Alpha Z tower. One problem noted on our maiden voyage - during high winds, the zipper tended to start to unzip...one time the entire rear bimini almost ripped away when it proceeded to unzip very rapidly. Have to come up with a better way to secure it.