Project Mooooooooo.........

« **Reply #125 on:** March 12, 2009, 11:50:18 AM »

Quote from: 2savage4you on March 12, 2009, 11:26:13 AM

You have to excuse Jeremy , he dont have a scoop like that to put on his boat....................Or a boat to put a scoop on

Just razzin ya

When i first looked at it, I thought there was enough room for a wing nut....

Keep it up there funny guy and I will come down there and take your boat out of your driveway and take it to mead this weekend! Im sure all of us together could get it finished!

« **Reply #126 on:** March 12, 2009, 11:57:25 AM »

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Keep it up there funny guy and I will come down there and take your boat out of your driveway and take it to mead this weekend! Im sure all of us together could get it finished!

LMFAO! That's funny, I'll bring the sawzall and the cherry picker, we can get that dizzy on the right end, just rotate the engine 180 degrees. ROFL!

Lord, I gotta go to work, but FUNNY, Thanks Steve, needed that! Even tho you're taking the 'Brunt' of it.

Ray

« **Reply #127 on:** March 19, 2009, 09:06:36 PM »

Alright. Been awhile now detoxing from the trip!

The Lake Mead test worked out well, given some near major catastrophes, we got back, boat ran well, considering the carb was untouched and nearly new, and we never did use Crewcheifs timing light on it. Now I'm getting her ready for a run in the morning at Saguaro with my uncle, a real Holley guy, to see if we can get the timiong down, and just to get some more run time on it. Everything looks good, all evidence of the Mead Milkshake is gone (Changed the oil again after we got home, lord at $125 a case this Joe Gibbs stuff is getting EXPENSIVE, cost more than any single part I put on the thing so far, but worth it in the end). Retightened the oil pan, where I beleive the water came from, from nearly flooding the thing to the bottom of the lake, cleaned out the bilge (and the beer cans). Tomorrow afternoon gonna pull the corks on the block and start the install of this

The 750 is the twin to the one on the boat now that I ran at Mead. I figure get my uncle loose on that one, then switch them and do the same for the second, should get me close to running them together. At least in theory.... More likely is retuning over and over again to get them right. 2 Vac secondary 750's on this thing is WAY over carbing the engine from the standard formula, but given what peformance I saw at Mead, I think it will be just about right on THIS engine. Besides, It's what I have in the garage.

Finish that, Maybe an electric fuel pump system and adding in the oil cooler/remote filter dealio, and get the engine cover upholstered by my overworked and overbooked contact, I think this boat is as far as I want to take it right now. Will follow up with pics on them as they happen. Then it's onto the Yellow Submarine. I promise, more pics of every aspect of THAT build, which my PLAN is to be much milder than this thing turned out to be. (What a surprise THAT was to see this thing come out of the gate like that, need to find out what's in this pump!) Then again, any boat painted like this one had BETTER run or go home and graze.

I owe a ton of thanks to EVERYONE on this site for making this happen. You all contributed, be it little or a lot, but some names like Crewcheif, Tom at JBP, Brad, Omar, 2Sav, Skip, Chromey, Joe (Cowboy), Forked up, and Nordi come to mind, and I know I'm missing a lot of you. Don't take it personally.

As this thread closes, with maybe a few more posts from me and some others, I'm proud of the result, and I hope it serves to help out anyone else working on or building one of these things! What a great hobby!

Ray

PS Still haven't had any name airbrushed on, but common comments seem to suggest simply "Mooooo", even as clever as all the suggestions were.

« **Reply #128 on:** March 19, 2009, 09:20:36 PM »

Quote from: IRRebel on March 19, 2009, 09:06:36 PM

Alright. Been awhile now detoxing from the trip!

The Lake Mead test worked out well, given some near major catastrophes, we got back, boat ran well, considering the carb was untouched and nearly new, and we never did use Crewcheifs timing light on it. Now I'm getting her ready for a run in the morning at Saguaro with my uncle, a real Holley guy, to see if we can get the timiong down, and just to get some more run time on it. Everything looks good, all evidence of the Mead Milkshake is gone (Changed the oil again after we got home, lord at $125 a case this Joe Gibbs stuff is getting EXPENSIVE, cost more than any single part I put on the thing so far, but worth it in the end). Retightened the oil pan, where I beleive the water came from, from nearly flooding the thing to the bottom of the lake, cleaned out the bilge (and the beer cans). Tomorrow afternoon gonna pull the corks on the block and start the install of this

The 750 is the twin to the one on the boat now that I ran at Mead. I figure get my uncle loose on that one, then switch them and do the same for the second, should get me close to running them together. At least in theory.... More likely is retuning over and over again to get them right. 2 Vac secondary 750's on this thing is WAY over carbing the engine from the standard formula, but given what peformance I saw at Mead, I think it will be just about right on THIS engine. Besides, It's what I have in the garage.

Finish that, Maybe an electric fuel pump system and adding in the oil cooler/remote filter dealio, and get the engine cover upholstered by my overworked and overbooked contact, I think this boat is as far as I want to take it right now. Will follow up with pics on them as they happen. Then it's onto the Yellow Submarine. I promise, more pics of every aspect of THAT build, which my PLAN is to be much milder than this thing turned out to be. (What a surprise THAT was to see this thing come out of the gate like that, need to find out what's in this pump!) Then again, any boat painted like this one had BETTER run or go home and graze.

I owe a ton of thanks to EVERYONE on this site for making this happen. You all contributed, be it little or a lot, but some names like Crewcheif, Tom at JBP, Brad, Omar, 2Sav, Skip, Chromey, Joe (Cowboy), Forked up, and Nordi come to mind, and I know I'm missing a lot of you. Don't take it personally.

As this thread closes, with maybe a few more posts from me and some others, I'm proud of the result, and I hope it serves to help out anyone else working on or building one of these things! What a great hobby!

Ray

PS Still haven't had any name airbrushed on, but common comments seem to suggest simply "Mooooo", even as clever as all the suggestions were.

Right on Ray, Cowabunga LOL, just to stir some shit here, its virtually impossible to overcarb with a vacuum secodary carb., so you should be golden, use the yellow secondary spring and she should rock like a Holstein

GT

« **Reply #129 on:** March 19, 2009, 09:51:43 PM »

Pretty much what I was thinking, Glen. And you're one of the one's I did not mention, sorry. Gotta thank 2SAv for the 'Choke, what's a Choke?' tip too. Saved my ass right there!

Gotta tell you though, first couple times I rolled out of the marina with the thing, and bear in mind I've never driven these things before, as Crewcheif and Mrs. Crewcheif can attest first hand, I rolled into the throttle pretty easy only to have the bow stick up in my face for awhile until she decided to come up on plane. Kinda scarey not seeing in front of you. Learned to whack the throttle about 3/4 and the thing would launch out of the water and be right on plane, albeit around 30 or so MPH,(more than that according to my son who was incharge of the GPS) in less than a second it seemed.

Biggest problem I had was the carb hesitating allowing me to do that, but the power was there, none the less.

Ray

« **Reply #130 on:** March 19, 2009, 10:04:46 PM »

Totally reminds me of the first time I drove an aluminum tunnel hulled riverboat, that thing stood up like morning wood and scared the living crap out of me, finally learned to mash it to the wood and hold the hell on...

GT

« **Reply #131 on:** March 19, 2009, 10:08:55 PM »

Yeah, lol ,Scared the living SHEIT out of the kids when I first figured this out. Took awhile from all this to convicve them to get back in the boat with me, again, Crewcheif can attest. They're fine, but want Oh Sheit handles everywhere on the boat now. Maybe I need some baffles.................

Ray

« **Reply #132 on:** March 19, 2009, 11:34:08 PM »

im not exactly sure how a electric choke works. Do you have to punch it to basicially turn the choke off when you dont want it on anymore if you have an electric one?

« **Reply #133 on:** March 19, 2009, 11:44:13 PM »

I simply removed it, no need. boat does NOT need a choke, and as I think about it, unsure why it ever would.

Ray

« **Reply #134 on:** March 20, 2009, 02:40:21 AM »

what did you remove? the electric assembly on the side or the choke plate or both?

« **Reply #135 on:** March 20, 2009, 03:47:45 AM »

well geez ray! wheres a pic of the finished product!? you gotta give us that one at least

« **Reply #136 on:** March 20, 2009, 06:43:14 AM »

Quote from: maddogg20 on March 20, 2009, 02:40:21 AM

what did you remove? the electric assembly on the side or the choke plate or both?

I removed the electric assembly, the linkages, the butterfly and the shaft. Pretty much the whole dam thing. 'll post pics later when I get back and start dissassembling the other one this afternoon, maybe, unless we're having too much fun with it out there this morning.

Ray

« **Reply #137 on:** March 20, 2009, 07:24:15 PM »

Quote from: kohensdad on March 20, 2009, 03:47:45 AM

well geez ray! wheres a pic of the finished product!? you gotta give us that one at least

OK, OK, Theres more in the Family Event at Lake Mead thread, thanks to Chromey and Crewcheif, but here she is in the garage. Shoulda took some outside. I'll try and do that tomorrow for you guys. Also plan to post the pics once the wiring is cleaned up and the tunnel is installed. Tried the Bimini today, dun like it. Gonna save it for the Yellow Submarine I think. Just doesn't go with this boat, and I don't imagine it will stay on this thing very long at speed anyway. The intake combo on it now will go on the other one, with an 850, once I get that far.

Haven't even cleaned it up since Mead!

Ray

« **Reply #138 on:** March 22, 2009, 10:59:42 PM »

Well, the tunnel's going on Tuesday, if I planned my week right. Also lined up a guy to permanently name the boat. Any last minute suggestions? So far I'm tossed between, "That Damn Cow Boat", "Udder Nonsense" (Udder Mayhem is growing on me), and just plain "Mooooo". There's also "A Mooooving Experience", "Moo-Haul", I'm worrying myself more over this stuff than anything else on the boat.

Anyone find themselves in or near the PHX area and need this sort of thing done, I can hook you up. The guy works for me sooo, I know where to find him. Does FANTASTIC work, all freehand. He makes all of our signs for the store now (Not that he likes it, but....)

Ray

« **Reply #139 on:** March 23, 2009, 08:19:04 AM »

Quote from: IRRebel on March 22, 2009, 10:59:42 PM

Well, the tunnel's going on Tuesday, if I planned my week right. Also lined up a guy to permanently name the boat. Any last minute suggestions? So far I'm tossed between, "That Damn Cow Boat", "Udder Nonsense" (Udder Mayhem is growing on me), and just plain "Mooooo". There's also "A Mooooving Experience", "Moo-Haul", I'm worrying myself more over this stuff than anything else on the boat.

Anyone find themselves in or near the PHX area and need this sort of thing done, I can hook you up. The guy works for me sooo, I know where to find him. Does FANTASTIC work, all freehand. He makes all of our signs for the store now (Not that he likes it, but....)

Ray

Udder Nonsense gets my vote!

« **Reply #140 on:** March 23, 2009, 08:24:07 AM »

How did you nearly sink the boat?

Joe

« **Reply #141 on:** March 23, 2009, 08:44:59 AM »

How 'bout, "Cow Pie"

« **Reply #142 on:** March 23, 2009, 11:17:37 AM »

i vote UDDER MAYHEM!!

« **Reply #143 on:** March 23, 2009, 12:35:26 PM »

Haulin Rump

Bovinator

Cow-a-bunga

Hells Cowbells

« **Reply #144 on:** March 23, 2009, 03:32:41 PM »

Quote from: SkyHarborCowboy on March 23, 2009, 08:24:07 AM

How did you nearly sink the boat?

Joe

Wellll, I kinda forgot to tighten 1 hose clamp, apparently, the hose that goes from the front of the intake to the ball valve before the header T. When I romped on it pretty hard chasing Crewcheif and Nordi's friend Jay, it came off, and the faster I went, the more water I was pumping into the back of the boat, thank goodness the kids noticed a lot of water rolling around their feet, problem was, I was in the middle of the lake and went ashore PRONTO. Took the bilge pump awhile to pump it out, lol. At least an easy fix, but she was REALLY full of water, pretty darn close if you ask me,

Blued the headers a bit, as they were running dry, obviously, and scared the crap out of everyone involved, lol. Learned a valuable lesson there. Double and triple check everything BEFORE you get in the middle of the lake and run it like an idiot! Boat ran great the rest of the time, save for a little leaky water outlet cover that we fixed while there.

All in the interests of learning! It's funny now, but wasn't at the time.

Ray

« **Reply #145 on:** March 23, 2009, 04:49:49 PM »

She is lookin good Ray, as for your bimini, maybe you can rattle can some white spots on it to match the boat and ya might like it better

I vote for UDDER NONSENSE also

Mark

« **Reply #146 on:** March 23, 2009, 05:02:06 PM »

Ray , lookin real good bro

But i cant figure out what that blue thing is in the back

« **Reply #147 on:** March 23, 2009, 05:12:08 PM »

Hey 2Sav are ya talkin about the blue thing with the dizzy at the right end

It's called a chevy KILLER

« **Reply #148 on:** March 23, 2009, 05:39:32 PM »

Quote from: 76NORDIC on March 23, 2009, 05:12:08 PM

Hey 2Sav are ya talkin about the blue thing with the dizzy at the right end It's called a chevy KILLER

I should have known better....

new sheriff in town and there will be no chevy killin on my watch

« **Reply #149 on:** March 23, 2009, 06:19:51 PM »

Too funny Steve

you knew i had to jump on that one

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