went out today...





not good.   i think its a headgasket.  there was some gunk in the valve cover breathers.   but the boat felt GREAT from idle to 5500rpms.  i dunno how fast it turned into but it felt like i was hauling ass. 

oh and on the way in to the marina i dropped my phone into the ocean.  GRRRRR. not a good day today.

Is your dad grinning?

When I first finished my boat I was 20 years old.  My dad helped me launch it the first time.  While he went to park the truck adn trailer, I took it in the cove and really cut loose.  I was turning and jumping my wake and hauling A**.  Well, I spun out and the distributor got wet.  I kept it running and hit the bilge pump.  There was so much water in the boat that the transome was below sea level, in fact my feet got wet and I was sitting in the front of the boat.  If the engine had died, the boat would of sunk.  So as I wait for the bildge pump to do its thing, I see my dad on shore with his hands on his hips.  When I was able to dock, he cussed me up and down that I had this boat in the water for five minutes and it damn near sunk before he could get a ride.

Good memories of a bad situation.

You will look back at this incident and will remember that your dad was there to help you out when you needed him.

they're a little tall...  (gonna trim em down now that ive traced the hull line down the sides of em.



and its pretty much the most space i can get out of this thing...  any more and people are gonna be sitting inside of the intake manifold.



now onto the next problem.  holly carb rebuild.  my secondaries keep getting stuck.  the other day starting it at the launch ramp and being stuck @ 2k rpms sucked.  especially in reverse when it shot water EVERYWHERE. 

just for a tip, something i did was i cut the sides down a 1/2" lower then the gunnels of the boat to allow for upholstry....it made the seats flush after the upholstry was installed...just an idea for you

thanks for the tip!  gonna do the same. 

all trimmed up.  just gotta figure out what i want to do about the center section and how to attach it.

are you wanting to make a bench back there or? a little cover over the front of the engine?

little cover.  but think i might want to angle it or something so i can get like 2 cupholders and maybe 2 6 1/2" shallow speakers back there.

never thought about putting a cupholder in the floor... it would make it easy to clean under there.  but after all that hard work i dunno about drilling a huge hole into it.  hmmm.  i do need somewhere to put my beer though.   

Couple of ideas for ya....both of these are in my tahiti....dont mind the dirtyness


The first picture are cupholders that i drilled into my subfloor...have only seen this in one other boat and thats where i got the idea....looks clean works good and easy access



This is my little engine cover....made a great speaker mount...seen lots of boats with cup holders installed in there...

btw what kind of tahiti is that?  it looks a lot more narrow than mine.  i have at least a foot and a half between the seats.  it looks like you have about 6"

made all the seat cushion pieces.  seats go to upholstery on wednesday.



going grey tweed with white vinyl top.  should look somewhat retro.

im in love with strippers





durring

all clean.  time to look into coatings and how im gonna deal with that bend angle. 

all of you work looks good .
what brand/type of stripper are you using?
thanks

its called "aircraft remover" just from autozone.  it doesnt take much, just brush it on, let it sit, scrape the excess off and then rinse the part.  theres VERY little fumes but let me tell ya, theres some SERIOUS chemicals in this stuff.  after maybe 5 minutes outside brushing it on i had pretty crazy "buzz" from it. 

well if you got the demon for a steal, sell it and get an 850. the demon is too small.... my .02