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George1301
05-05-2008, 04:37 PM
Finally going to put this bad boy on the water..!
We fired the engine last weekend... everything looks good.
This has been a long 2-year+ rebuild...I have owned a few in the past, but never really rebuilt one from the ground up.
I did not do a paint sceme on it because it will do for the season, but maybe this Fall I will consider. There was not one area, ( mechanically ) that either had to be repaired, refurburbished... or replaced.
With a Fresh 8-71, BBC-468....
Hopefully, this coming Sunday, May 18th will be the first time out... Should be fun. We plan to set our other boat in as well, (Wife's ) for a backup to the first run... :)
Oh.... Lake Elsinore for now...
Anywho... very excited.

Don,
If you see this...
I am sorry about re-registering after the deadline of May 1st... was out of town... Also... do we then need to upload our pics again or where would I look as well... Would like to upload the latest rather than only what I had... :)
You have my office email..?

GS

GS
RiverRacer
05-05-2008, 05:59 PM
Congrats and good luck on the maiden voyage, looking forward to results!..:cool:
dry
05-05-2008, 09:04 PM
Good Luck and be Safe, still waiting to get mine wet this year........
RiverRacer
05-06-2008, 05:19 AM
Good Luck and be Safe, still waiting to get mine wet this year........

Slacker!..:D:D:D
George1301
05-06-2008, 08:40 PM
Now....
If I can only find the keys....?
( Kinda like "race cars"... They DON'T have doors..? )
Quick question...
New to "blown motors"... I set the timing at about 32... blower is underdriven right now... Ran real good on the initial startup... When I shut it off... The engine came to a stop... then a small "pop" out the pipe....? Any concern..?

GS
Wannabe
05-06-2008, 10:27 PM
Probably not. Blown gas tends to do that sometime. There is no real way to kill the fuel and then shut it off dry like an injected engine. So sometimes the pipe will still have unburned yet hot fuel that will pop when it hits open air/oxygen. Seen it too many times to count. Even when a nitro motor can't shut the fuel off or the engine is turning off under some load.
dry
05-06-2008, 10:35 PM
Slacker!..:D:D:D

And then some, but getting real close to getting her wet!!! But when our lakes have all been out there banks i am only Just... Ok plain LAZY there i said it no more excuses on my part well maybe you know the more that i think about it Jeeezzz "I AM A SLACKER":eek:
RiverRacer
05-07-2008, 04:10 AM
And then some, but getting real close to getting her wet!!! But when our lakes have all been out there banks i am only Just... Ok plain LAZY there i said it no more excuses on my part well maybe you know the more that i think about it Jeeezzz "I AM A SLACKER":eek:

LMAO!..:D:D:D
RiverRacer
05-07-2008, 04:14 AM
Now....
If I can only find the keys....?
( Kinda like "race cars"... They DON'T have doors..? )
Quick question...
New to "blown motors"... I set the timing at about 32... blower is underdriven right now... Ran real good on the initial startup... When I shut it off... The engine came to a stop... then a small "pop" out the pipe....? Any concern..?

GS

That's raw fuel in the pipes igniting, fatten the idle a tad and it will cool it enough so the fuel won't ignite no biggie!.