i remember someone who wanted to buy a motor from ya.

i remember someone who wanted to buy a motor from ya.

I ended up with only one good block, the other was junk.  Sorry bro. I've still got a crank I'll sell you cheap.

PROGRESS!!!!! in the right direction I hope.

I picked up the block from this new machine shop I'm trying out...prelimary measurements agree with what they said they did...so we're looking good.  My old shop said I was already 0.005 outta the hole and that's why they didn't deck it.  I picked it up and measured it up at 0.010-.011" in the hole.  The new shop took off 0.008...only had to go that far because it was twisted...which should leave me about 0.002-0.003 in the hole.  Perfect.

I spent the evening cleaning the block...pressure washed it, blow dried it, chased every hole in the block, glyptol'd the inside and painted the outside, then a bunch of passes over the machined surfaces with laquer thinner until the rags came out clean...then more compressed air...I think it's clean.  I cleaned up the oil pump supply passage in the rear cap...dunno if it'll do any good but it can't hurt.  After I was happy with the cleanliness, I set the crank in it.  I already had the mains and thrust measured up so I didn't do it again. 

I picked up a gram scale from Harbor Freight tonight to match balance all the pistons....and every one of them came in at 708 grams w/ the pin.  i know the scale works cuz I threw a dollar bill on it and it went up to 709 grams.  SRP did good.

I wanted to start gapping the rings, but I couldn't find the squaring tool I made when I put the last BBC together...I think I might have made a nozzle insert out of it. Oh well.  I made a new one on the lathe out of the front bearing retainer from GeneralLee's blowed up bayjet pump.  Pretty nice piece of billet, but it was thrashed from the bearing blowing up so I figured what the hell.

Gotta spend some time with Momma for the rest of the night. 

   looks good Pat sounds to me you have it all under control now

I'm ending up with 2 5/16-18 bolts holding each block to the rails and one 3/8-16 bolt holding the plate to the block...is this sufficient? 

Depends on the bolts....As the bolts size goes up, the hole size does too....It's a balancing act between the material being bolted and the composition of the hardware...

Cadmium plated grade 8 for hex headed bolts, black oxide allens should be more than enough bolt, but the mated surfaces must be extremely flush with each other....

GT

mill the bowl down

Too late, I already cut half the pod off.  

The reason I did it this way is because:

If I need to pull the bowl to dig out rocks or whatever, I don't need to take anything apart...just remove the exposed bowl bolts and I'm in.  Maybe I got spoiled on the old boat with servicability.  It took me about an hour or so to get the transom adapter off this thing when I was tearing it apart...all the cables went through it and none of them sealed for shit, but were somehow stuck.  The damn steer tube took me the better part of 30 minutes to get out.  Screw that.  One thing I can't friggen stand about a lot of boats and the way they are assembled is the lack of serviceability.  I try to use captive nuts wherever I can on through bolts and I try to make it so I can take the whole damn thing apart in less than an hour if I have to....makes repairs at the river a lot easier in the heat.

I took about 6 inches off the pod...it's about even with the cav plates now.  There were also a couple cracks that I saw through the paint....and I'm glad I started grinding because they went all way through...about 8 inches long each where the pod meets the transom.  The grinder went right through, so they were some thin spots...one of them is a hole about 2 inches by 9 inches now, the other is a bit smaller.  I'll fix those too.  i've got it mostly prepped and hopefully I can get the rest of the prep done tomorrow and glass the sumbitch back together.  I'm cutting a bigger access hole in top of the pod and glassing in a recessed lip so the aluminum cover sits flush with the surface...it look cool in my head, we'll see how it turns out.

Oh god NNNOOOO! That gorgeous paint is gone! I guess your doing what needs to be done. The paint is gone aaahhhhhh! I'm freaking out man.

I'm glad everything worked out with the new machine shop. It's amazing how many shops can't do the most basic machine work. If you ever gap a ring a tad on the big side just install it in the lean hole. It depends which manifold is being used. Then you won't feel so bad being a .001-.002 off!

Anodize Bronze dude. Bronze and Black, sexy combo.

I hate fiberglass work.  Now that I've got the structure down, I'm trying to true everything up.  It's proving to be a pain in the ass. 

Oh well, it'll at least be straight when I'm done. 

Looking Awesome!

 Looks good Pat.  I like the lap joint, thats going to looks really clean that way.  When I did the ones for my old boat I didnt think of that and had to use a 3rd piece inside the plates to bolt them together.