1984 BFN

Well I call Son Water Sport in Anoka MN up the other day just to bs with Dave and he said the words for the day are 1984 Barefoot Nautique. At that point I said he had my full attention and what gives. he said that he just found that a 84 BFN might be coming up for sale and that was all the info that he had. I asked him to keep me posted. A week late he calls me back and said that the boat was at the store if I wanted to look at it. So I go take a look it has a few problems there is water in the oil, the floor is going to need some work the hull will need to be wet sanded and buffed out and the blue stips need to be repainted. The trailer is real solid but the paint is faded. So now the boat is at my house waiting till sping then I will start the resto. A boat i always wanted.

Looks to complete and unmolested,great find

Yes the motor is the big question mark. I will dig into that first and I did get it for a great price.

Nice score!!! Contrats! Get that thing all shiny and that will be one heck of a looker. There's just something about the tri color blue 80s boats.

Worst case we have that running 88 Footer 454 here at the shop ready to rock.

All of the exhaust hose needs to be replaced. It has mufflers looks like one newer one and one older one. So do I keep the mufflers or do I put in copper pipes. I have copper straight pipes on my 1976 SN with 351 and it really sounds nice. Is any one running straight pipes on their 454 and how is the sound.

Cool boat! Congratulations and good luck!!

Keep us posted on how the 409 works.

Will do Andy.

*saves

Zach, is the BFN 409 project done? How's it run?

It will sound great with straight pipes! I really like how a straight piped 454 sounds at idle, very deep tone.

I did put new oil in just not hooked up to water