1970 Weiman

« **Reply #25 on:** February 02, 2015, 05:17:50 PM »

Quote from: JordanDangerfield on February 02, 2015, 01:01:03 PM

What intake are you running on the motor? Are you going to run an open cooling system?

Ordered an edelbrock Victor Jr that's been ported. Going to try a 750 double pumper first, night need an 850

Yes, simple and open cooling

« **Reply #26 on:** February 09, 2015, 08:33:54 AM »

Got all of the pistons dropped in, mains torqued. and the cam in. Measured the pushrods and need different ones

But i couldnt help and throw everything on to see how its gonna look

Also did some polishing while i was cleaning up yesterday

« **Reply #27 on:** February 09, 2015, 09:23:50 AM »

Hell ya steve! Gonna match the boat legit!!!!

« **Reply #28 on:** February 09, 2015, 09:24:58 AM »

Everything is looking good! 👍👍

"RTCP"

« **Reply #29 on:** February 09, 2015, 09:28:12 AM »

Thanks guys, im really trying to take my time and not get in a hurry. But thats harder to do than it sounds

« **Reply #30 on:** February 09, 2015, 10:57:41 AM »

Quote from: steves86ta on February 09, 2015, 09:28:12 AM

Thanks guys, im really trying to take my time and not get in a hurry. But thats harder to do than it sounds

Ha I know what your saying! Keep it up hopefully you can make the May trip. That will be Jim and my first SCJB trip for the year. Let me know when you go testing. We are shooting around mid April if everything goes right.

"RTCP"

« **Reply #31 on:** February 09, 2015, 10:59:22 AM »

Quote from: capogniracing on February 09, 2015, 10:57:41 AM

Ha I know what your saying! Keep it up hopefully you can make the May trip. That will be Jim and my first SCJB trip for the year. Let me know when you go testing. We are shooting around mid April if everything goes right.

"RTCP"

Yeah, idk when this will be done. My goal is by 4th of july.

Honestly just plain out of money lol. Gotta slow down and catch up. Need to rebuild a jet i have and then all thats left is plumbing, and the ignition system

« **Reply #32 on:** February 11, 2015, 09:03:26 AM »

not much movement during the week. I spend most nights at the GF's house....

Last night i was home to run some errands, pay some bills etc. Got one of the heads assembled. These springs have a lot of pressure. They literally turned my (autozone style) claw compressor thing into a pretzel had to order the tool seen in the picture

« **Reply #33 on:** February 19, 2015, 02:42:47 PM »

Looks great, Steve! That light 6.0 is gonna knock at least 200 pounds off the back of the boat compared to an iron-headed big block. 450hp at the crank shouldn't be too tough to get with the right cam. It'll fly!!

« **Reply #34 on:** February 19, 2015, 02:47:55 PM »

Just a little bit of progress... finally got the right size pushrods and got around to polishing the rest of the ends of the heads, the front cover painted, and torqued.

Harmonic balancer installed and torqued fyi (240 ftlbs, then 37 ft lbs, then 140 degrees) that was fun

« **Reply #35 on:** February 19, 2015, 02:49:27 PM »

started pulling my pump apart. Gonna freshen up this JC pump and save for a split bowl later on

looks like the wear ring was seized to the impeller..

« **Reply #36 on:** February 19, 2015, 02:50:30 PM »

Quote from: Chad89GT on February 19, 2015, 02:42:47 PM

Looks great, Steve! That light 6.0 is gonna knock at least 200 pounds off the back of the boat compared to an iron-headed big block. 450hp at the crank shouldn't be too tough to get with the right cam. It'll fly!!

Thanks chad!

With the cam i went with, and the compression ratio ill be at. Im willing to bet that 500-550 at the crank is more like where we will be at.

« **Reply #37 on:** February 20, 2015, 09:52:31 PM »

Well left work early to get some work done on the boat, and of course never works out like you think it will

I came home, soda blasted the intake manifold, And I have to say. The 15 pound soda blaster from Hartbor freight kicks some ass. But it does make a mess, but who cares it's baking soda!
Here's what the intake looked like after about 5 minutes of blasting (aircraft stripper failed)

And I said it makes a mess...

But all in all it worked pretty damn nicely.

« **Reply #38 on:** February 20, 2015, 09:59:19 PM »

After the soda fiasco. I turned to checking out the front motor plates I bought on eBay.

God I hope they work...

So I polished one real quickly just to see if I wanted them polished, painted, or raw aluminum

After I did that I decided to start making my rear plate.

I used a transmission bellhousing for a template and went to town. Its hard to tell but I got the circle about halfway cut out, went to start on the other side and the damn Chuck for my jig saw died. It will not hold a blade anymore :-(

So it was back to polishing

I did 0 prep on these plates. Just took them to the buffer with various grit rouges and different wheels. Here's one plate about half way through

And the final result

I painted the intake with vht cast aluminum paint.

« **Reply #39 on:** February 20, 2015, 10:04:29 PM »

Quote from: steves86ta on February 20, 2015, 09:59:19 PM

After the soda fiasco. I turned to checking out the front motor plates I bought on eBay.

God I hope they work...

So I polished one real quickly just to see if I wanted them polished, painted, or raw aluminum

After I did that I decided to start making my rear plate.

I used a transmission bellhousing for a template and went to town. Its hard to tell but I got the circle about halfway cut out, went to start on the other side and the damn Chuck for my jig saw died. It will not hold a blade anymore :-(

So it was back to polishing

I did 0 prep on these plates. Just took them to the buffer with various grit rouges and different wheels. Here's one plate about half way through

And the final result

I painted the intake with vht cast aluminum paint.

Looks good Steve!
If something happens and you need more plate. I've got about a half sheet of 1/4"

« **Reply #40 on:** February 20, 2015, 10:05:04 PM »

Quote from: H20Nut21Bahner on February 20, 2015, 10:04:29 PM

Looks good Steve!
If something happens and you need more plate. I've got about a half sheet of 1/4"

Right on bud. I might hit you up on that

« **Reply #41 on:** February 22, 2015, 08:40:42 PM »

So this weekend ended up busy with the family, but I still managed to get a little bit of work done on the boat.

Started out Friday night with the polishing above.

Saturday I woke up and went to harbor freight and grabbed a jig saw.

The same damn thing happens and the saw wouldn't hold the blade. So after tightening it down, I broke the collet

So back to harbor freight.... Again.
I decided to buy an "old school" saw. One where you have to bolt the blade in.

And I finished the cut, finally

Then I started on the rest of the plate.

About halfway through my third jig saw decided to catch on fire

(Hard to see in this pic)

After this I quit with the jig saws and used my scroll saw. About 5 blades later I had my rear plate. Woohoo!!

« **Reply #42 on:** February 22, 2015, 08:46:13 PM »

So plates are cut, I cleaned up the garage and decided to move on to cleaning the headers up and painting them

Cleaned them with an angle grinder and a wire wheel

Then shot a coat of vht flat black header paint.

I do not expect the paint to last forever. But I'm hoping until I get a stainless set off headers built

« **Reply #43 on:** February 22, 2015, 08:47:57 PM »

And finally, today I learned that the radio shack by my girlfriend's house is going out off business. And as such everything is 80-90 percent off

I ended up with all of these solderless connectors for a little less than 20.00

« **Reply #44 on:** February 23, 2015, 11:38:01 AM »

Quote from: steves86ta on February 22, 2015, 08:47:57 PM

And finally, today I learned that the radio shack by my girlfriend's house is going out off business. And as such everything is 80-90 percent off

I ended up with all of these solderless connectors for a little less than 20.00

DAMN!!!! You scored BIG TIME on those connectors.

Motor is looking fantastic. You'll be on the water in no time.

« **Reply #45 on:** March 02, 2015, 11:55:59 AM »

Made some progress this weekend on the Weiman.

Picked up a bandsaw. if you dont have one. I have to say this is the greatest tool ive ever bought...

got it for 150 off craigslist. It looks practically brand new, came with 4 new in the package blades. Even the "electronic measurement" works

Now that i have a bandsaw i could clean up the rear mount and start on the rest of my rail kit

Attempted the router on the edges. Im not really happy with the way it came out

After a lot of trial and error, i found that my "truck" oil pan is way to deep for the boat. Its not even close to lining up

Here you can see where i cut that rear mount and used a different set of holes just to keep the pan off the bottom

The motor is sitting on the pan, on the bottom of the boat here. Im still about 3 inches away

BUT the rails did get cut and installed. So atleast made some progress

Oh and i got my C bowl cleaned up and painted

« **Reply #46 on:** March 02, 2015, 12:22:51 PM »

Something that worked for me on the router is having a guide piece for the roller bearing on the tip of the router bit to follow. I made the guide piece out of wood and smoothed it by hand as best I could. Clamped the wood and aluminum together and let the router follow it.

Sent from my iPhone using SoCal Jet Boats

« **Reply #47 on:** March 02, 2015, 12:35:08 PM »

Your on it bud!! Gonna have her wet before mine 👍👍

"RTCP"

« **Reply #48 on:** March 02, 2015, 01:45:44 PM »

Quote from: 74hondo on March 02, 2015, 12:22:51 PM

Something that worked for me on the router is having a guide piece for the roller bearing on the tip of the router bit to follow. I made the guide piece out of wood and smoothed it by hand as best I could. Clamped the wood and aluminum together and let the router follow it.

Sent from my iPhone using SoCal Jet Boats

Thanks for the tip, ill give that a shot. But after i routed it im not sure i like the look. Good thing i have to make a new set anyways

« **Reply #49 on:** March 02, 2015, 01:46:41 PM »

Quote from: capogniracing on March 02, 2015, 12:35:08 PM

Your on it bud!! Gonna have her wet before mine 👍👍

"RTCP"

Thanks man!

steves86ta

steves86ta

MorePower

capogniracing

steves86ta

capogniracing

steves86ta

steves86ta

Chad89GT

steves86ta

steves86ta

steves86ta

steves86ta

steves86ta

H20Nut21Bahner

steves86ta

steves86ta

steves86ta

steves86ta

Chad89GT

steves86ta

74hondo

capogniracing

steves86ta

steves86ta