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Discussion => Boat Showcase => Topic started by: joinerboy on March 12, 2014, 07:06:23 PM
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71 southwind. Came from san diego area. I am located in south carolina. Sucks over here. Out there seems so much better. Wanted to get opinions/input as well as if anyone recognized the boat and who did the restoration. I destroyed a piston this weekend and it will be getting a newer bbc this week. Please comment and give me input.
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Sweet float! Damn those look like some high compression pistons. I think your octane wasn't near high enough and was probably pinging and you weren't able to hear it. I bet it was a good running motor before this. Sucks we've all been there in one form or another. Very sweet boat!!
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Whereabouts in SC? I live two miles from Lake Norman.
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Im in west columbia by lake murray
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Was a stock bbc from an rv. Dont think it was high compression.
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Was a stock bbc from an rv. Dont think it was high compression.
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Yah I'm no motor builder maybe that's a newer model motor I've just never seen those type of pistons before I'm use to all the old shit!!!
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I bought the bought from a guy that moved from san diego to raleigh NC. The looked perfect except that cylinder. My dads a long time mechanic and said hes never seen a piston come apart that bad.
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I bought the bought from a guy that moved from san diego to raleigh NC. The looked perfect except that cylinder. My dads a long time mechanic and said hes never seen a piston come apart that bad.
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I've had 2-
1 on a Indmar marine motor (Mothers day, '03)
1 on a stock BBC from a '78 dually (Fathers day, '03)
Dan'l
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Nice boat man! That looks gnarly! What are your plans with the new motor?
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I just did the same thing last year at elsinore with my 468. Ran too lean and piston and cam broke.
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Got another stock bbc truck motor should be here tom. For now just gonna put my oil pan, valve covers, carb, starter, other little stuff on stocker and get on the water. Maybe a cam/intake/heads in the future.
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Kinda looks like my old boat. :o
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A couple more from a few years ago
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Hell yea. Thats awesome to get some of the boats history. Its my first jet boat but been around water my whole life.
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Kinda looks like my old boat. :o
Is it the same it's pretty close. But then again I'm 1/2 blind in one eye and can't see out of the other.....lol
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Def the same boat. I have the cali tag still on the trailer thats in that pic.
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I owned it from 09 up until the beginning of 13. Ran it on Mojave, Havasu and all up and down the river... a long ways from South Carolina.
I bought it from a guy named Randy that lived in Banning, CA. He was a mechanic at a Chevy dealership somewhere in SoCal.
I think I remember him telling me him and his wife had it restored in the mid 90's. There was one spot on the transom and a few places on the underside of the hull where you could see the original Bass Boat purple metallic gelcoat. Hes the one that moved the engine back 2 inches if you notice the extra holes in the stringers. He is also the one that wired up that rat's nest under the dash...if its still there.
Nice to see the boat again, Sorry about your engine. When I owned the boat it had an LS7 in it, 12.5:1 CR, I separated the hull/engine after I spun a rod bearing in Fall of '12.
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Yea i see the spot on transom where it was purple. That rats nest was tough ti figure out but its all working now. Ha. Very cool to get the history from so far away. Wish parts were as plentiful ober here
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How it sits at the moment. Waiting on motor to come in. they said itll be bere today so hopefully be testing this weekend!
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Just about rdy. What is a good cam for a stock bbc. Its a truck motor.
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