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Fabcon
Gold Member Joined: August-27-2012 Location: Buffalo. Mn Status: Offline Points: 552 |
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Posted: January-23-2015 at 9:11pm |
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.
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1976 Ski Nautique 351 Escort
1984 Barefoot Nautique (Parting Out) |
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skutsch
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Nice find! Should be a good project. Happy Footin!!!
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Gary S
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Looks to complete and unmolested,great find
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TRBenj
Grand Poobah Joined: June-29-2005 Location: NWCT Status: Offline Points: 21108 |
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Interior and carpet were obviously redone but not untastefully.
I traded notes with that seller, looks like it has a lot of potential! I think he got scared off when I told him that water in the oil was unlikely to be a cheap head gasket fix. I bet he ended up giving the boat away- hope you picked it up for a song. With any luck it just needs an exhaust manifold rather than a new block. I may have a spare if that turns out to be the case. Keep us up to date with your plans and progress! |
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Fabcon
Gold Member Joined: August-27-2012 Location: Buffalo. Mn Status: Offline Points: 552 |
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Yes the motor is the big question mark. I will dig into that first and I did get it for a great price.
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1976 Ski Nautique 351 Escort
1984 Barefoot Nautique (Parting Out) |
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Hooty222
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Great find! I just finished My 88 BFN 454 last year. Nice to have Big Block power
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1986 Ski nautique 351
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phatsat67
Grand Poobah Joined: March-13-2006 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 6147 |
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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. |
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storm34
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I thought you worked in the parts dept zach. You're sounding more like a sales guy every day!
Nice find! Dave seems like a really nice guy. I get a phone call from him every few months just to catch up and talk boats. Never met in person but he seems to take a genuine interest in keeping up with our stuff and looking out for things we need. |
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Fabcon
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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.
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1976 Ski Nautique 351 Escort
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8122pbrainard
Grand Poobah Joined: September-14-2006 Location: Three Lakes Wi. Status: Offline Points: 41040 |
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Phil,
Straight pipes is the way to go!! |
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Smithfamily
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Cool boat! Congratulations and good luck!!
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phatsat67
Grand Poobah Joined: March-13-2006 Location: Indiana Status: Offline Points: 6147 |
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Chris, not the whole boat ha. The motor out of the 88 we pulled in favor of the 409.
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Toeboat
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Keep us posted on how the 409 works.
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Toeboat
89 BFN w/454 bought new and still love it. 06 Ski Nautique w/ZR6 72 Promo |
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msanautique
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Wow!! I have an 84 BF, it's been many years since I've seen another one in the same colors!! There are not many 84s left let alone in the blues! mine is just like yours!! So cool! Do you have any idea the value of a decent 84 BF 454?? Do you mind if I ask what you paid?
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phatsat67
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Will do Andy.
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jbear
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Loud pipes save lives... john |
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"Loud pipes save lives"
AdamT sez "I'm Canadian and a beaver lover myself"... |
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Hollywood
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*saves
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jbear
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oppss..even read it again & missed that.
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"Loud pipes save lives"
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Toeboat
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Zach, is the BFN 409 project done? How's it run?
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Toeboat
89 BFN w/454 bought new and still love it. 06 Ski Nautique w/ZR6 72 Promo |
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phatsat67
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Not done yet. Hopefully the motor will be going back in within the next few weeks.
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63 Skier
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It will sound great with straight pipes! I really like how a straight piped 454 sounds at idle, very deep tone.
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Fabcon
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We'll I moved the Barefoot into the garage to start working on it. I wanted to see if the motor would run so I dropped the old oil and there was water in it. I took off the RWP and started it dry. We'll it runs now I just have to find out how the water got in there. Very happy it runs. http://youtu.be/wukUEvsvm5c
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1976 Ski Nautique 351 Escort
1984 Barefoot Nautique (Parting Out) |
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Fabcon
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I did put new oil in just not hooked up to water
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1976 Ski Nautique 351 Escort
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Fabcon
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Did a compression test on the motor today #1 cylinder was at 100lbs the rest were 135 to 138 so next weekend the head comes off. Hopefully just need to replace the head gasket.
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1976 Ski Nautique 351 Escort
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