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bkplesh

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #450 on: April 26, 2008, 09:35:35 AM »
its not about the money, its about learning something and hanging out with friends.
That would be great to do. But I think in most cases it's about the money. IF you're tight on money, then it's cheaper to go to a shop (plus you can take it back, if theres a problem) Then just spending double and doing it with a buddy (in Rod's case) ;D
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bkplesh

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #451 on: April 26, 2008, 09:36:34 AM »
Its really to bad your a fuking idiot
WOW :o
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bkplesh

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #452 on: April 26, 2008, 09:38:54 AM »
I think Total Performance charges $500 for assembly of a short block. And the top end you can do all yourself
I've been telling Rod for almost a year to go there >:D But Rod's buddy is a good motor builder too. Plus his going to be cheaper.
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2savage4you

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #453 on: April 26, 2008, 09:42:22 AM »
I need to change the bolt for the steering cable

Rod , Sorry for the thread jack ...  But i need to know what it is you would use for the steering cable??

Is it just a regular bolt? I need to connect mine and im all out of chicken wire ;D so whats the proper way
Thanks....
2sav ;)
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hotrod56cars

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #454 on: April 26, 2008, 09:53:25 AM »
WOW :o

 ;D  WOW, what a thread jack huh? LMFAO



2Sav

Yea I'm just using a regular stainless bolt. But since I'm not interested in a loss of steering control  :o  I want to get a longer bolt so I can put two nuts on it to lock it on.
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NO REGRET$ ... Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics / no matter how good you do you're still retarded!!!!!

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2savage4you

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #455 on: April 26, 2008, 09:55:42 AM »
;D  WOW, what a thread jack huh? LMFAO



2Sav

Yea I'm just using a regular stainless bolt. But since I'm not interested in a loss of steering control  :o  I want to get a longer bolt so I can put two nuts on it to lock it on.


Thanks bro, ;D

Im going to the hardware store so i can put my shit together :banghead:
2sav
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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #456 on: April 26, 2008, 09:57:40 AM »

Thanks bro, ;D

Im going to the hardware store so i can put my shit together :banghead:
2sav

Use at your own risk, I never said I was putting it together correctly!  J/K  :D
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NO REGRET$ ... Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics / no matter how good you do you're still retarded!!!!!

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Ralph Brunt

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #457 on: April 26, 2008, 10:00:28 AM »
That would be great to do. But I think in most cases it's about the money. IF you're tight on money, then it's cheaper to go to a shop (plus you can take it back, if theres a problem) Then just spending double and doing it with a buddy (in Rod's case) ;D
i'm pretty sure terry knows what he is doing, plus you get to learn how to do it yourself next time. if you think there wont be a next time you are WRONG.
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They are all fukin tasty. My long time favorite, "Dirty Dicks -beerjet-
Glasscutter, Skip, OC2  Nordie and many more nail me good every time, relentlessly, I love those guys!

beerjet

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #458 on: April 26, 2008, 10:01:52 AM »
Aside from BAE's bottom being completely diffrent and him having to run a set-up that needs to keep the ass end buried or else , I think your well on your way to shooting yourself in the foot . You should be tryin to get the boat up out of the water which is the way it was set-up before  :banghead: Why haven't you put a 2" shoe in it yet also  ???

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i dont but im all for stuffin shit in her ass to make her go away :-*

bkplesh

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #459 on: April 26, 2008, 10:37:31 AM »
i'm pretty sure terry knows what he is doing, plus you get to learn how to do it yourself next time. if you think there wont be a next time you are WRONG.
never said terry didnt build good motor! Just that it would be double the money for Rod to go to him. If terry is go to teach him (THAT"S GREAT) for free cool. But to just the motor to him and going two or three weekend to him. Rod can go to his buddy for $500 buck and be money head. And why can't the rod's buddy show him here. Plus the 500 he would save can go to more parts for the boat. Just my .02
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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #460 on: April 26, 2008, 10:38:44 AM »
Aside from BAE's bottom being completely diffrent and him having to run a set-up that needs to keep the ass end buried or else , I think your well on your way to shooting yourself in the foot . You should be tryin to get the boat up out of the water which is the way it was set-up before  :banghead: Why haven't you put a 2" shoe in it yet also  ???

-beerjet-
You have to know Rod, He like to go step 6 then to step 4 and then to step 1  :screwy:
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hotrod56cars

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #461 on: April 26, 2008, 10:44:33 AM »
Aside from BAE's bottom being completely diffrent and him having to run a set-up that needs to keep the ass end buried or else , I think your well on your way to shooting yourself in the foot . You should be tryin to get the boat up out of the water which is the way it was set-up before  :banghead: Why haven't you put a 2" shoe in it yet also  ???

-beerjet-

I love this post.  :banghead:  ;D  It has a shoe but I haven't been down to the local Payless Shoe Source yet to get it measured.  :screwy:  I have no idea where a 2" shoe is measured at, it has a shoe but  ???

never said terry didnt build good motor! Just that it would be double the money for Rod to go to him. If terry is go to teach him (THAT"S GREAT) for free cool. But to just the motor to him and going two or three weekend to him. Rod can go to his buddy for $500 buck and be money head. And why can't the rod's buddy show him here. Plus the 500 he would save can go to more parts for the boat. Just my .02

I'm pretty sure Terry has told me we can put it together in a day (assuming all the parts are right!), I think.

The builder I have used before probably would also show me how things are done that I want to learn. He has yet to return my call.

You have to know Rod, He like to go step 6 then to step 4 and then to step 1  :screwy:

Learning from the master I see.  ;)  Master of what I have no idea.  :screwy:
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hotrod56cars

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #462 on: April 26, 2008, 01:22:39 PM »
The engine builder that I've used before returned my phone call shortly after making my last post.  :sly:  He said he'd put my engine together for $400, smokin' deal IMO. But I owe Terry a lot of parts which I still need to deliver and he has my cylinder heads... soooo either way I'm making at least one trip to Terry's.


This is the sik-est thing to rarely hit the water.  :D


Last time out the engine blew and spewed oil everywhere, it's been sitting covered ever since. Today it got moved to a more "workable" location. Filthy is a huge understatement.


I'd be a lot better off getting off this computer and actually getting something done, like replacing the fwd/rev cable.


You don't sit "in" this boat, you sit "on" this boat, and although the picture probably doesn't show my point, it does show where the driver's right foot sits, where the driver's left foot sits, and more importantly the uncomfortable difference between the two. I have no idea what to do about it because I never go anywhere and see how other tunnels are rigged.


I want to move the seats back a few inches but in order for me to do that I need to move the gas pedal and make the steering stick out further. Maybe in the next 10 years or so it'll get done.  :banghead:


This is a Ghetto Hydraulic Place Divertor Control, Radio Shack less than $5.
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NO REGRET$ ... Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics / no matter how good you do you're still retarded!!!!!

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hotrod56cars

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #463 on: April 26, 2008, 01:31:12 PM »
The difference between this


and this


Is a lot less than you might think. The steering cable spacer that was used with the droop it had. I never moved my steering cable for the swap.


The old set up had a Berkeley droop and a 4 degree wedge, so the water exited (sp?) the pump, went up through a 4 degree wedge, went down the droop, then went up the droop's 7 degree output, and then out the divertor. Now the water exit's the pump, goes straight through a spacer, then up a 3 1/2 degree Rooster Booster, then out the divertor. The water flow is much straighter now and technically the divertor is only 1 inch higher in the water.
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NO REGRET$ ... Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics / no matter how good you do you're still retarded!!!!!

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hotrod56cars

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #464 on: April 26, 2008, 01:36:10 PM »
Next up...

A friend of mine showed up today to talk about some stuff and whatever and these seats are now going to be a thing of the past.  :o  Don and Ghan (sp?), I can not thank you enough.


Don's girl bought a sewing machine that can be used on vynl and she just sewed Don an all new interior for him. Now, I'm going to do a little bit of side work for her on her home stereo system and she's going to sew me up some new seat covers. I am stoked beyond words. Should be done in a couple of weeks.
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NO REGRET$ ... Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics / no matter how good you do you're still retarded!!!!!

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HDriderTH

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #465 on: April 26, 2008, 02:12:39 PM »
......Lets Rock
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hotrod56cars

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #466 on: April 26, 2008, 02:33:54 PM »
......Lets Rock

You see  ::) , how can I argue with that?  ;D


Here's a rough photoshop of my seats. I can be on my period and you'll never know because of the red stripe. LMFAO  :D
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NO REGRET$ ... Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics / no matter how good you do you're still retarded!!!!!

                                                          1978  19' Mach 1 Tunnel jet

beerjet

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #467 on: April 26, 2008, 03:16:21 PM »
The droop will "LIFT" your boat .   :banghead: Have fun plowing water  ;D

-beerjet-
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bkplesh

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #468 on: April 26, 2008, 03:39:51 PM »
I hope you still have the droop :banghead:
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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #469 on: April 26, 2008, 05:48:49 PM »
I hope you still have the droop :banghead:
He'll have "the droop" His head will droop in disapointment  :P  ;D

-beerjet-
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propless

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #470 on: April 26, 2008, 06:15:31 PM »

You don't sit "in" this boat, you sit "on" this boat, and although the picture probably doesn't show my point, it does show where the driver's right foot sits, where the driver's left foot sits, and more importantly the uncomfortable difference between the two. I have no idea what to do about it because I never go anywhere and see how other tunnels are rigged.
  Rod , heres a pic of mine , its not much better (to high).  There has to be a better way  ??? .
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Welcome to the club of broken boats :o  Pay here$ bend over and move along.

hotrod56cars

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #471 on: April 26, 2008, 06:30:34 PM »
  Rod , heres a pic of mine , its not much better (to high).  There has to be a better way  ??? .

That has to be better than having one knee in your chin and the other waaaayyy over there. I don't know, maybe not. I still can't bend my knee far enough to sit in the thing more than a couple of seconds. I have no idea what I'm going to do when the boat is water ready and I can't sit in it.  :banghead:  Maybe drive the thing with my left leg laying on the bow.  :screwy:

I'm not saying I know more about anything boat related, because I definately don't, but we'll just have to wait and see on the droop swap. Personaly, I don't think a air entrapment hull needs 11 degree's of lift. I think since I didn't open up that Dominator bowl that's what will give me more problems than the droop swap. Lot's of very fast boats with and witout droop snoot's. Anyone can run slow.  ;D


I cleaned up the boat today, I think it was the first time I've ever cleaned the floor. That black floor gets very hot! I just need to pull the stereo and woofer out that came with the boat and clean up the wiring a little bit and it's ready for an engine.  :banghead:
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NO REGRET$ ... Arguing on the internet is like competing in the Special Olympics / no matter how good you do you're still retarded!!!!!

                                                          1978  19' Mach 1 Tunnel jet

bkplesh

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #472 on: April 26, 2008, 06:55:27 PM »
you need to re-wire the boat, not try to safe that wiring miss ;D
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propless

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #473 on: April 26, 2008, 07:13:04 PM »
That has to be better than having one knee in your chin and the other waaaayyy over there. I don't know, maybe not. I still can't bend my knee far enough to sit in the thing more than a couple of seconds. I have no idea what I'm going to do when the boat is water ready and I can't sit in it.  :banghead:  Maybe drive the thing with my left leg laying on the bow.  :screwy:
Been there done that, when i broke my ankle skiing (rested the cast on the deck and went back next the weekend ) .   ;D ;D 

 Looking at your pics it looks like your boat has false floors from the tunnels to the outside , or I'm seeing it wrong  ??? .   If it does maybe you could remove them to make more leg room  :-\ .
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GAWnCA

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Re: Mach 1
« Reply #474 on: April 26, 2008, 07:49:57 PM »
Damn, and I was bitching about my seats.  Not any more.




And this is before I used the magic eraser.
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