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Engine Mechanical / Electrical / 1971 Southwind 429 SCJ worth doing?
« on: December 14, 2019, 04:26:28 PM »
Newbie here, been reading a lot, first post...
The boat (free if I want it) is in Oregon, last time I saw it was 15+ years ago.
Around that time while pulling a skier up, an engine knock developed. They (my brother in-law) took it home and partially disassembled the engine. Then left it to rust
I now have just the engine here in SoCal, boat is still in OR. The #2 piston has a broken skirt, bores have surface rust, rod caps are junk from rust, crank is a maybe (?), heads (D00E-R) need a few valves and exhaust seats are rust pitted, guides are good. Block (D0VE-A) is a 4 bolt main, some of the freeze plugs are pushed out and one is missing, froze with water in it?
Most of the other parts are junk.
If the block is able to go +.030" and the heads can be saved with some new hardened exhaust seats and a few valves... I will do a Scatt Rotating Assembly (502 ci), cam, lifters, springs, chain, push rods, rockers, oil pump, etc...
Probably going to be in the ball park of $5500. with machine work.
So my Question is it worth spending close to $6K on a 1971 South Wind?
It has a Berkeley pump with a stainless impeller, unknown cut.
BTW, I am a drag racer and mostly a Chevy guy, so building a BB Ford to make peak power at 5K is a little foreign and hard to wrap my head around. But with help from the great forum you guys have here I am confident it could work.
---Bill.
The boat (free if I want it) is in Oregon, last time I saw it was 15+ years ago.
Around that time while pulling a skier up, an engine knock developed. They (my brother in-law) took it home and partially disassembled the engine. Then left it to rust
I now have just the engine here in SoCal, boat is still in OR. The #2 piston has a broken skirt, bores have surface rust, rod caps are junk from rust, crank is a maybe (?), heads (D00E-R) need a few valves and exhaust seats are rust pitted, guides are good. Block (D0VE-A) is a 4 bolt main, some of the freeze plugs are pushed out and one is missing, froze with water in it?
Most of the other parts are junk.
If the block is able to go +.030" and the heads can be saved with some new hardened exhaust seats and a few valves... I will do a Scatt Rotating Assembly (502 ci), cam, lifters, springs, chain, push rods, rockers, oil pump, etc...
Probably going to be in the ball park of $5500. with machine work.
So my Question is it worth spending close to $6K on a 1971 South Wind?
It has a Berkeley pump with a stainless impeller, unknown cut.
BTW, I am a drag racer and mostly a Chevy guy, so building a BB Ford to make peak power at 5K is a little foreign and hard to wrap my head around. But with help from the great forum you guys have here I am confident it could work.
---Bill.