Proppy, if it drives/runs even 1/3 as good as it looks, you better bring a change of shorts!

Where you taking it? I'll buy the lunch!  

GT

Ahhh man Steve, now you went and done it    Ive seen where you been doing your little digs here and there, TRYING to bash fords, it AINT working      You get your boat wet yet   Alot of fords I see are getting wet

 Hell never get that thing wet, except in the driveway.     He's to afraid it will live up its Chevy heritage and float       "Like A Rock" !!   

 JK Steve,  I hope someday you get a day off work to have some fun.   You've earned it.

Proppy, if it drives/runs even 1/3 as good as it looks, you better bring a change of shorts!

Where you taking it? I'll buy the lunch!  

GT

 I really hope it works this time and doesn't try to act like Flipper on crack, again. 

 The plan (so far) is Pine Flat early Sunday.  Smooth water, and only the fishermen can laugh at me if things go badly. 

Looking Sweet ! Jeff , Nice work !  Tom Rhonda and Josh

BTW  Tom,  Those baffles didnt do a damn thing to quiet this beast down.  I like it !! 

 Ray,  The old corkscrew style I had in the Lancer did a good job quieting it down, but they absolutely killed the power.  These new ones from Tom don't do much as far as quieting it down (I ordered the shortest ones he had), so hopefully they wont cost much power.   

 Just a side note,  These short headers look really cool (to me), but be warned people.  They spit nasty dirty water all over the transom if you run them wet. 

Jeff Per your PM , yes as an objective observers Josh and I (as you know ) have been watching this for some time , The good news I honestly belive this can be corrected and make this a "palatable" Lake boat Completely under stand the frustration and Heart ache This much is true This can be corrected ! Tom
 
 FWIW there were clearly some inconsistacies in the representation of this IMO , and thats a standard Berk 4* intake not a low profile

I say Lets not be defeated by this lets fix it ! Set the jet back drop the intake and move the motor back as far as allowed  a couple days work You pull the motor and the Jet , let Josh set the intake ,!

 Just so everybody knows and you dont think Toms previous post was off the wall.  After installing the droop and looking at things for awhile, there seems to be some issues with this thing (the droop made it more noticeable).  At this point I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it.  I still plan to take it out Sunday, and see what it does.  As far as what the problem is, it has to do with the amount of rocker this hull has and the fact that it has a set back pump.  Moving the pump back put the intake farther back on the rocker and gave it some issues to deal with.  As it is now the hull wants to set all the way back on the rideplate and really fly.  This may have worked in the past with the massive power it had and as an all out drag boat, but it never had to cruise to the hang out spot.  Busby and the late Tom Papp had this thing set up to be an all or nothing boat.  They did what needed to be done to get it run as fast as it did, multiple passes over 121mph.  Unfortunately I dont have that kind of power and I do need it to behave in at least a semi reasonable manner for the trip from the ramp to the hang out spot (and back) without having to tow it around and just make passes with it. 

 Bottom line is, not to many people would buy an old blown alcohol drag car and try to turn it into a daily driver.  But thats exactly what I'm doing with this thing. 
 

 Now if I had that motor this thing would work.   

 But I still have a few secret ideas up my sleeve that might help tame this thing.  If all else fails I saved a spot in front of the batt that's just the right size for a nitrous bottle. 

 Just a reminder for those that don't remember where this boat came from, hears a crappy old pic from when Busby owned it.

 Still fighting with it John, Its been on the water every weekend and its making small improvements here and there.  I'm not giving up on it, I will make this thing work somehow !!  Here's a pic someone from over on PB took from Mendota last weekend.  Couldn't really get any feedback from the set up changes because it decided to run like crap  .   As soon as I get it figured out I'll let you know what it wanted, might be helpfull info for the Sanger.

 

Jeff-

Where the hell is, and what is Mendota Slough? Looks like a good place to boat.
Skip

Still fighting with it John, Its been on the water every weekend and its making small improvements here and there.  I'm not giving up on it, I will make this thing work somehow !!  Here's a pic someone from over on PB took from Mendota last weekend.  Couldn't really get any feedback from the set up changes because it decided to run like crap  .   As soon as I get it figured out I'll let you know what it wanted, might be helpfull info for the Sanger.

 

Damn, that looks nice!!!!!   Good luck with the challenge and I'm certain you'll figg'r it out.  We have lots of time as my sons regular gig has all but dried up so he's working at a bike custom shop and the money is not the same. 

I'm planning on getting my pig wet this weekend and hope to have some pics as well.  Thanks again and please keep us posted on your efforts (good n bad) to tame the wild thang....  We're right behind you   

Oops, what I should have said was, its a terrible place to take a boat and we all decided to NEVER go back !!  Its full of mosquitoes and man eating fish.  Not to mention the water kinda burns your skin and dissolves fiberglass. 

Sounds perfect then.

Oops, what I should have said was, its a terrible place to take a boat and we all decided to NEVER go back !!  Its full of mosquitoes and man eating fish.  Not to mention the water kinda burns your skin and dissolves fiberglass. 

Is it a water treatment facility? 

Ray

Well boys, I found my HP issue.   

 After 8 yrs of faithfull service the Mighty BBF is hurt.     It was down to 4100rpm yesterday and sounded bad doing it.  I pulled the valve covers tonight and found a handful of rockers with lots and lots of "clearance".  Looks like it ate the cam.

 Now I'm boatless again., in the middle of summer, AGAIN !!!!  SON OF A ##### !!!!!!! 

 I'm not sure what the plan will be yet.  I need to talk to my motor guy, but I do know I need more power.   Might go for a BIG stroker, or something bottle fed, or both !! 

 Anybody have a blower manifold for a 460 sitting around ?   

What bout summit cam and lifters for 100 bucks 

Not yet, But I'm sure I will end up with one eventually (Got one of nearly everything else methinks). I'll keep an eye out fer ya!

Ray

I'm told that once you get a good "Blower", you'll never be the same tho......................Lord I hope it wasn't Beerjet that told me that...................................

 LOL, funny thing is, that sounds like a Beerjet quote.