Ok you need to get this thing wet and let me know what I need to do/not do with mine.  I finally got it back to Iowa and can't wait to get underway on the rebuild.  But, I was hoping you'd already have figured out what i shouldn't do that you might have done.  Other than polish the tunnel ram.  That looks killer but I don't like pretty enough to put all that extra work into it.  Your's is looking good though.  Maybe sometime in the year 2020 or so when mine is done we can run them both together. 

Oh great, someone else to give me crap about it not being done (just what I need)  .

 JK, SnoC653.  Glad you finally got yours home and welcome to the Oldskool Eliminator club.     How does it look in person ?   

 For those that don't know, SnoC653 picked up this one and has some future plans of possibly going circle racing with it (if I remember right). 

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The hull is solid with no visible delam.  The pump turns free but I'm thinking it will get a setback and a whirlaway.  The boat needs the rubrail seam capped and the floors redone.  So I'll probalby fill the dash holes and start with a blank slate.  The boat will probably be painted back yellow as that is the main color I see under the red paint.  As I was driving back with Art's old Bissi in tow also the paint and name came to me based on the underlieing yellow.  Art looked the boat over and he said the design and layup should work to turn circles safely (well as safe as any racing boat) although he said performance was dependent on setup (intake angles and placement) and HP (isn't it always).  I guess when it all goes back together we'll see what the mighty mopar can lay down.  In any case it is a good start and should make a fun toy.   

The hull is solid with no visible delam.  The pump turns free but I'm thinking it will get a setback and a whirlaway.  The boat needs the rubrail seam capped and the floors redone.  So I'll probalby fill the dash holes and start with a blank slate.  The boat will probably be painted back yellow as that is the main color I see under the red paint.  As I was driving back with Art's old Bissi in tow also the paint and name came to me based on the underlieing yellow.  Art looked the boat over and he said the design and layup should work to turn circles safely (well as safe as any racing boat) although he said performance was dependent on setup (intake angles and placement) and HP (isn't it always).  I guess when it all goes back together we'll see what the mighty mopar can lay down.  In any case it is a good start and should make a fun toy.   

    Been there done that (go back a few pages  ) .  Glad your happy with your new toy. It will be cool to compare some angles (intake/amount of rocker) between the two.

 Now back to my junk, here's the new flex plate cover Billy / Ironman made for me. I also picked up a loader, a fuel distribution block, and a bracket to move my throttle away from the stringer from him. And I have a set of used headers coming from Tom (JBP) , I'm going to save the twistys for something else (I just don't like the way they look on this boat).  I have to admit, without Billy / Ironman and Tom (JBP) this thing would never have gotten this far, as well as everyone on here keeping me motivated. 


 Now for the bad news, I'm done for a while. I'm not going to make the Tom Papp event and this thing is getting out of hand (or I am). I was looking at it tonight and started thinking how the T ram needs nice new Allen head bolts and it needs to be repolished  .  I realized I'm getting more and more picky/anal about this thing every day.  If you look at the pic, I even painted the bolts and spacers on the cover and motor plate  .  Then I noticed the black ones on the valve covers, well, that will never do  .   I just need to throw the cover on it and walk away for a bit.  Maybe I'll go build some seat frames for the Daytona  .

The detail your putting in the boat looks great,I'm sure you'll be more then happy by taking your time and working the fine detail work out.

build it now...make it pretty later.

Yeah, because that always works.................

Lookin good proppy, let me know if you need a hand rebuilding those carbs...

Ironman

when i had an electric pump i wired it to the kill switch because im dumb and could see myself forgetting to shut it off

My fuel pump is wired to a relay off of the ignition and a separate switch that cuts power to the power pole of the relay, no way to forget (wife and friends sometimes drive the boat), seems to work really well, the last three boats I did had it like this.

Lookin good proppy, I can almost hear it run...

GT

looking proppy, youll be gettin wet before you know it, how about a frontside pic of the dash, that has to look clean with no switches

thanx gt right click save

I know its back there a few pages somewhere but I dont want to look for it.    So, here it is again 

 

 Thanks for the diagram GT, but I just rearranged the power wires, so both switches are fed through the kill switch.  I'm trying to keep things as simple as possible (caveman technology). 

Caveman good!

I am all about simple, when the mood suits me 

That looks SIK!

i hope you wear sunglasses, its gunna kill you if you dont

Boats gonna be so scary fast he'll be squinting his eyes anyways 

GT

That dash is DOPE!  Sorry, late comer to this topic and a little lazy to go back through the pages...but what is that?  Stainless?  Aluminum?  Oh...and I've been looking for one of those tach holder things for a minute...where the hell do you get one of those?