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Tech Talk => Projects => Topic started by: Brad @ SCJB on June 19, 2014, 06:52:33 PM
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Its like an ex that keeps coming around, taking your money and breaking your heart....but you never learn. It hasn't been touched in a year now still filled with oil and water. The trailer is sitting on blocks.
Will I ever forgive her? Will she ever forgive me?
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When you put sour milk back in the fridge do you drink it again
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Id ef that bitch and show her who's the boss!
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Why did you stop runnin the boat
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Why did you stop runnin the boat
Broke a rod bolt 3 minutes off the trailer on a fresh build. I pulled the motor and put her in timeout. Funds just havent been there to do anything with her since.
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Leave her be till the funds come your way. She will forgive you the minute she is back going roundy round brad.
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Clean it, cover it and wait. You'll either find a way yourself, or you'll find someone with an engine looking to get involved in compjet racing. Either way, it's not costing you anything to let it sit for a while.
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I feel ya, I just got the final bill for my new motor...the wife is not happy with me. On a positive note, I'm really gonna need help at Long Beach.
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I feel ya, I just got the final bill for my new motor...the wife is not happy with me. On a positive note, I'm really gonna need help at Long Beach.
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I will be there... Love to help out anyway I can. Be honored. :thumbup:
Hell, the last time I helped someone out at Long Beach we won due to some really screwy circumstances... :screwy:
Of course when I helped Brad at Burley, we blew shit up... Could go either way... :o
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why would you leave it filled with water? get that tongue in the air, dry it out and get back on that horse. one step at a time.
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MYbe hit up jim and see if he will work with ya I'm sure he has enough parts to get it back up and running
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You're in. PS: don't mention the other motor I'm secretly collecting parts for. I've never raced a jet but I already know I need more power.
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why would you leave it filled with water? get that tongue in the air, dry it out and get back on that horse. one step at a time.
Maybe you missed its filled with 14+ quarts of oil....and was 40+ gallons of rain water. I pulled the cover a month or so ago and a ton of the water has evaporated... Gunna drain it into a 55 gallon drum here soon. Yeah, my fault for neglect, but I was in a bad spot when this thing let go last summer. It was my last concern at the time.
I have a motor I can piece together that I can put in it, but nothing competitive....so what's the point?
Flat black boat with a 7 gallon gas tank is no river cruiser lol
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Its like an ex that keeps coming around, taking your money and breaking your heart....but you never learn. It hasn't been touched in a year now still filled with oil and water. The trailer is sitting on blocks.
Will I ever forgive her? Will she ever forgive me?
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If you don't have the funds, it wont be fun...
I like to tinker. Maybe, when time permits, just tinker. Get her all cleaned up, go through it with a fine tooth comb and try to fix what I call little bugs.
The best part about tinkering is that it's free. I have been known to completely remove the wire harness and label and heat shrink each and every wire, take a sanding block and repair every single little paint run and aluminum scratch, you know, bullshit.
All it did for me was kept the dream somewhat alive. I was the single most brokest racer on the planet, we never even had a camera. All we ever used were those disposable deals that we stole from a wedding reception.
The boat has a mind of it's own, but no memory.
You and me next year at the Idaho Regatta bud. :thumbup:
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Maybe you missed its filled with 14+ quarts of oil....and was 40+ gallons of rain water. I pulled the cover a month or so ago and a ton of the water has evaporated... Gunna drain it into a 55 gallon drum here soon. Yeah, my fault for neglect, but I was in a bad spot when this thing let go last summer. It was my last concern at the time.
I have a motor I can piece together that I can put in it, but nothing competitive....so what's the point?
Flat black boat with a 7 gallon gas tank is no river cruiser lol
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eh 5 gallon bucket at a time to autozone here and there. it'll be dry before you know it.
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I feel ya, I just got the final bill for my new motor...the wife is not happy with me. On a positive note, I'm really gonna need help at Long Beach.
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I'd love to help if it didn't always land on my daughter's birthday weekend.
Maybe you missed its filled with 14+ quarts of oil....and was 40+ gallons of rain water. I pulled the cover a month or so ago and a ton of the water has evaporated... Gunna drain it into a 55 gallon drum here soon. Yeah, my fault for neglect, but I was in a bad spot when this thing let go last summer. It was my last concern at the time.
I have a motor I can piece together that I can put in it, but nothing competitive....so what's the point?
Flat black boat with a 7 gallon gas tank is no river cruiser lol
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NJ.
Motor won't cost you much and it'll be a great time to install and dial in hardware....
Or...........a chainsaw and give me the bowl.
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Move it to the front yard and make a planter.
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If you don't have the funds, it wont be fun...
I like to tinker. Maybe, when time permits, just tinker. Get her all cleaned up, go through it with a fine tooth comb and try to fix what I call little bugs.
The best part about tinkering is that it's free. I have been known to completely remove the wire harness and label and heat shrink each and every wire, take a sanding block and repair every single little paint run and aluminum scratch, you know, bullshit.
All it did for me was kept the dream somewhat alive. I was the single most brokest racer on the planet, we never even had a camera. All we ever used were those disposable deals that we stole from a wedding reception.
The boat has a mind of it's own, but no memory.
You and me next year at the Idaho Regatta bud. :thumbup:
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Yea Glenn, i know all to well about tinkering! thats about all i can afford to do right now, is tinker. The other money pit is getting well funded, right now!
Brad, get that dam thing drained and cleaned out, or you will be replacing stringers, when you do decide to forgive her!
Now me, i hold grudges against the girls that do me wrong and kick em to the kurb! Ok not really, im just a big ol tedy bear. One wink and im hooked again! ???
Get it cleaned up. Atleast it wont be rurnt, yea, i said rurnt, when you do decide what to do with itagain!
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Never heard rurnt before. I had to look up the meaning lol. How do you pronounce it?
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Never heard rurnt before. I had to look up the meaning lol. How do you pronounce it?
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It must be southern slang lol
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We've offered to help ya, if ya don't plan on running it again,sell it. Don't let it go to waste, let it fund some other projects
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Don't you have plates for it?
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I remember the first time you saw her.. she was down on her luck and needing some love, just like now.. she is a Liberty she has a fine pedigree, don't you Forget it..It's not her fault....
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Ok just give it to me I will put my cheby in it run with Ralph in nj :)
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I remember the first time you saw her.. she was down on her luck and needing some love, just like now.. she is a Liberty she has a fine pedigree, don't you Forget it..It's not her fault....
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Some people would like to see those hulls "looked at a little closer" .....
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I know projects and our "other girfriends or mistresses" (talking about the boats incase someone thinks otherwise)cost money to build and maintain and run. Why not try and see if anyone on here would like to help sponsor the boat to get it up and running again. make it the SCJB mascot. I would throw some $$$ your way to get it back up to go race. Or find parts.
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Never heard rurnt before. I had to look up the meaning lol. How do you pronounce it?
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LOL! Yea that is some deep south shit right there!
It means, it aint no dam good! LOL!
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She's all drained. Just a bunch of sludge left over. I'm gunna put some wheels on her this week and get it down to the local 'do it yourself' car wash and pressure was out the inside one of these evenings.
Omar - yes, I have plates but I need a few custom made parts. I need to draw them up in AutoCAD and find a good machinist.
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Good to see you getting her cleaned up.besides it was I heard that failed you it was her ticker.
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i played around making a time lapse video of the drain...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVYRjMVci5Y (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVYRjMVci5Y)
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How often did you take a picture?
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How often did you take a picture?
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5 seconds
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Time lapse was pretty cool
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The video came out cool , have you ever thought about trying to get that float sponsored somehow?
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The video came out cool , have you ever thought about trying to get that float sponsored somehow?
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Yeah been sponsored in the past....but now boat is currently painted with a rough texture so stickers won't stick.....so I'd have to have the sponsors names/logos painted on.....there's more to it....but yeah I just like how its running only the SCJB name now. I'd love the help, just don't know where things are going with this boat currently. Its in real rough shape.
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Yeah been sponsored in the past....but now boat is currently painted with a rough texture so stickers won't stick.....so I'd have to have the sponsors names/logos painted on.....there's more to it....but yeah I just like how its running only the SCJB name now. I'd love the help, just don't know where things are going with this boat currently. Its in real rough shape.
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not to mention how hard it is to get good people/sponsors to get behind a boat racing program now days, And even harder to keep them happy. Some people just have no idea the cost of boat racing now days its expensive. I know for us just to go to chandler or Havasu it's 1000$ weekend without entry and beer. I hope you can get some things together and get crazy eights back out racing again brad. If iam not racing I will be more than willing to help you out in the pits for sure. Also thanks again for all the help and support.
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I would think a thousand is very conservative , I bet in reality it's more than double that.
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How does one go about getting a sponsorship I mean do you just walk in west marine and say Hi I'm Brad im racing this hear boat I'll put your name on it for x amount of dollars or do you have to put a portfolio together of all the races you'll attend snd this is how many people will see it? How does it work I've always been curious?
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She's all drained. Just a bunch of sludge left over. I'm gunna put some wheels on her this week and get it down to the local 'do it yourself' car wash and pressure was out the inside one of these evenings.
Omar - yes, I have plates but I need a few custom made parts. I need to draw them up in AutoCAD and find a good machinist.
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Idk what kind of parts you need cut. But I have a waterjet at my work, I can help with some cutting if you find the need.
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How does one go about getting a sponsorship I mean do you just walk in west marine and say Hi I'm Brad im racing this hear boat I'll put your name on it for x amount of dollars or do you have to put a portfolio together of all the races you'll attend snd this is how many people will see it? How does it work I've always been curious?
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would think a thousand is very conservative , I bet in reality it's more than double that.
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Food and gas, it's about right. But the beer, entry, and other things. Yeah it's about 2.
That one way you can go about getting sponsored. How most deals that have gone down for the 177 boat were at the track and friends saying they would help us out.
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Sponsorship is a funny thing.
We got sponsored once by a beer distributor. It was pretty cool because our boat happened to be Chrome yellow and the sponsor had these huge Miller genuine draft stickers that were for a delivery truck. Look pretty cool, especially for us broke ass posers.
Sponsorships normally come from friends of friends or someone that saw you do something they want to be associated with.
Ours happen to be the fact that we had matching tee shirts, we carried ourselves the best we knew how and we had a very pretty boat that was nicer looking than anything else we owned.
We launched the boat with a 1943 Willys Jeep and we were borrowing tools from the dude that built the hull, who at the time was also racing (obviously a different boat).
The kicker was that in black contact paper we had written on the deck of the boat "Your Name Here", which ironically was what they named the boat after the race.
Anyways. Just thought I would chime in. BTW, the sponsor paid for several pizzas, 55 gallons of gasoline (we were running pump gas per the class rules), a new distributor and gave us money for safety gear. All we had was some ski vests and old motorcycle helmets....
You just never know.
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