One small step closer

« **Reply #150 on:** June 23, 2007, 07:14:17 PM »

well lets see the 460 doesnt need sealer around there big ass head bolts, cant put a small block flywheel on big block, yup i'm convinced i'll stay with the ford.

just bustin your chops rod

« **Reply #151 on:** June 24, 2007, 09:36:47 AM »

Quote from: rwyyattb on June 23, 2007, 07:14:17 PM

well lets see the 460 doesnt need sealer around there big ass head bolts, cant put a small block flywheel on big block, yup i'm convinced i'll stay with the ford.
just bustin your chops rod

« **Reply #152 on:** June 24, 2007, 04:33:08 PM »

One giant leap backwards.

I got a call from the mechanic. He highly recomends that my engine be rebuilt because it's in a boat. It's on the tired side, not worn out but it is tired. It doesn't need a rebore and the steel crank measures good. Camshaft is fine. I didn't degree the cam when I installed it and it is currently 8 degree's retarded. I don't have the cash that it requires. I'm not sure what I'm going to do. $1100 gets me my engine freshened up with new bearings and rings, valve job, and it all correctly installed.

Options:
Save my penny's for _ years and rebuild the current engine.
Find a different engine after saving my pennies.
Sell the whole project piece by piece.

FYI: if you've got a BBC with oval port heads and you're using a rectangular port intake manifold you need to use the rectangular port gasket set otherwise 6 of the 8 cylinders will have a huge vaccuum leak.

I think I'm going to puke.

« **Reply #153 on:** June 24, 2007, 04:52:53 PM »

Quote from: hotrod56cars on June 24, 2007, 04:33:08 PM

FYI: if you've got a BBC with oval port heads and you're using a rectangular port intake manifold you need to use the rectangular port gasket set otherwise 6 of the 8 cylinders will have a huge vaccuum leak.

I think I'm going to puke.

I thought they would all have a vaccum leak

I figured that one out the hard way .

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« **Reply #154 on:** June 25, 2007, 10:09:36 PM »

Tomorrow I'm dropping off a deposit to start the engine's rebuild. It isn't on schedule to be finished for a couple of months due to finances.

I don't want to dump this boat.

« **Reply #155 on:** June 25, 2007, 10:17:07 PM »

Quote from: hotrod56cars on June 25, 2007, 10:09:36 PM

Tomorrow I'm dropping off a deposit to start the engine's rebuild. It isn't on schedule to be finished for a couple of months due to finances. I don't want to dump this boat.

If you "dump" it . Make sure it at my house !

-beerjet-

« **Reply #156 on:** June 30, 2007, 09:53:54 PM »

I got word today that my engine's parts are back from the machine shop. Crank was polished and ? nitrated or something like that, pistons and rods were ?, block was honed and surfaced, heads were surfaced and had a vlave job done to them. The mechanic is just waiting for $ to put the engine back together (correctly). He said it could easily be done in less than a week, bummer, since I won't have the cash until ______.

« **Reply #157 on:** July 26, 2007, 10:42:04 PM »

Everyone is paying like they should on my eBay sells so it looks like I can call my engine builder tomorrow and tell him it's a go. The High Life didn't do as well as I thought so it looks like 425-450 HP is going to have to cut it. It definately isn't going to be a race boat with that set-up though. $:-\$ I found out that it has a steel 427 crank in it, which makes it a 433 I guess (0.30 overbore) and not a 461.

Should be on the water in less than 3 weeks, it would be a nice birthday present for myself. It should be a solid combination with that steel crank, forged pistons, 11:1 compression, and new cam... i thought about going with a roller cam, but with the heads limiting the breathing ability, and the $1,000+ price tag of a roller, maybe getting 50 - 75 HP more out of it, I'm going to have to pass for now.

I welded and grinded on tons of crap in the last few weeks and I got (damn, what's that word... ... ...) steel specks all over my boat. Now the specks are rusting, in the paint. Clay bar where are you??

« **Reply #158 on:** July 26, 2007, 10:44:26 PM »

Hey Ralph, what's your guess (dyno'd?) on the HP in your race boat? 650-700??

« **Reply #159 on:** July 27, 2007, 03:48:28 PM »

Quote from: hotrod56cars on July 26, 2007, 10:42:04 PM

Everyone is paying like they should on my eBay sells so it looks like I can call my engine builder tomorrow and tell him it's a go...

The engine builder broke his leg and ankle last night... uhmmm... $:-\$ he says it won't be a problem...

« **Reply #160 on:** July 27, 2007, 03:53:46 PM »

Quote from: hotrod56cars on July 26, 2007, 10:44:26 PM

Hey Ralph, what's your guess (dyno'd?) on the HP in your race boat? 650-700??

500

« **Reply #161 on:** July 27, 2007, 04:04:38 PM »

Quote from: rwyyattb on July 27, 2007, 03:53:46 PM

500

You are probably the only one I know who has a jet boat that does 80 mph easily, that doesn't "it'll do a 100" on the trailer, with 500

horsepower. If you didn't have that shed out back...

I figure I would want 600 HP min. to go circle racing.

I wanted to sell the motorhome and get Plesh's 6/71 blower and Enderale fuel injection but I was advised not to... Chevy's are just generally ugly after they've gone through the bottom of a jet boat hull (unlike Ford's who look better after they've gone through the bottom of any hull).

« **Reply #162 on:** July 27, 2007, 04:47:57 PM »

if you think about it i turn 5200rpm coming out of the corner then back off to 48-4900 rpm down the straight this is with a berk a aluminum impeller, and the pump was done up by jim brock. so if you look at the impeller chart, you tell me how much hp im using $:-\$

the boat is faster than i run it,

« **Reply #163 on:** July 28, 2007, 02:29:52 AM »

Quote from: rwyyattb on July 27, 2007, 04:47:57 PM

if you think about it i turn 5200rpm coming out of the corner then back off to 48-4900 rpm down the straight this is with a berk a aluminum impeller, and the pump was done up by jim brock. so if you look at the impeller chart, you tell me how much hp im using $:-\$

the boat is faster than i run it,

I think that chart is for stock (non-set back pump, no ride plate, etc...) Berkeley pumps... 5200 RPM looks like to me to be about 440 HP

... I guess I'll have to wait and see how close I can get it to 80 mph... at least I can use my cell phone to figure it out.

« **Reply #164 on:** July 28, 2007, 07:21:11 AM »

i'm no expert but i dont think the pump being set back does'nt have an affect on the rpm.

« **Reply #165 on:** July 28, 2007, 11:19:33 AM »

Quote from: rwyyattb on July 28, 2007, 07:21:11 AM

i'm no expert but i dont think the pump being set back does'nt have an affect on the rpm.

Set back adds to the stability . Not rpm.

-beerjet-

« **Reply #166 on:** July 28, 2007, 11:49:13 AM »

Quote from: beerjet on July 28, 2007, 11:19:33 AM

Set back adds to the stability . Not rpm.

-beerjet-

Damnit, if anybody needs stability it's me...

« **Reply #167 on:** July 31, 2007, 08:37:24 PM »

Quote from: hotrod56cars on July 28, 2007, 11:49:13 AM

Damnit, if anybody needs stability it's me...

If I was you , I'd be a setting back fool then .

-beerjet-

« **Reply #168 on:** July 31, 2007, 09:11:51 PM »

lmfao

« **Reply #169 on:** July 31, 2007, 09:55:18 PM »

LMFAO

« **Reply #170 on:** July 31, 2007, 10:15:52 PM »

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« **Reply #171 on:** July 31, 2007, 10:41:36 PM »

Quote from: bkplesh on July 31, 2007, 10:15:52 PM

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« **Reply #172 on:** July 31, 2007, 10:46:19 PM »

What was this thread about again?

« **Reply #173 on:** August 01, 2007, 06:42:45 AM »

I dunno

« **Reply #174 on:** August 01, 2007, 06:43:28 AM »

Was it about that slow ass miller?

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