UK’s 78 SN

found a picture from a while back.....once again, painted the engine with bc/cc and it holds up very well

its an adapter that goes in place of the oil filter on the side of the engine,
Roger, they are used often and havnt seen any issues with oil in the water
coming along nicely
always enjoy the Chevy projects

Worked on the pylon today by welding/filling and the old Miller worked great only problem I had was a blown 30A fuse on one phase on the wall, it took 5 rods to fill it and found out the hard way Aluminum looks the same when its still hot.





Here is a picture of my bow lifting point glassed in.

Pete is right my boat has spent much of its life in salt water, which kept the stringers good but everything around them rotted instead.

Roger, Wow!! That's the worst case I've seen!! Must be the salt water.

Hi Guys, got the weight of the sub frame with the base boss,not that bad @ 5.8lb

Seb I think your right,I need to look into dual fuel set up but with these programmable ecu's you can switch set ups so there will be a eco one in my list.

Thanks for all the feedback guys,I know all the skills here would set me straight,what I found is the deck on my year boat is just 3/16 of gel and glass then a cardboard like layer of 3/8 (like you find in flush doors but denser,we call it hollow core here) then a 1/16 layer of glass and only a thin strip of 1/2 ply glass in underneath.

As for the engine its an old 03 roller vortec, which is hooked up to a new 1.23.1 and I think will make the engine sit lower than the old 1.1, engine spec 383 vortec heads with only a light porting,cam comp XM270HR (lift in.495 ex.503 ) ecu top of my list Motec then Edelbrock pro-flow 2, or Fast system,we need full sequential here as the Gov has just added more tax to gas as we are so broke $1.83L on today's ex rate,just need to find what comp I can run on our pump gas.
I'm shooting for 400hp but we see.

if you machine up another one out of S/S to replace the orginal machine it to 3A specs then, that will help, your going to be adding a bending moment were the orginal was just simple tension.

nice FI..

kapla wrote: what kind of load or force is needed to pull all the threads out?

it's only one that matters, the threaded rod for the eye is the weak link.

hope that the threaded rod is grade 8 but I'm betting it's standard S/S and the weakest link too. Doesn't make much since building all the extra support just to have the threads pull out.

It is pretty though and will be around long after all of us!

Wow now that's a tad bit of over kill there and a ton of extra weight in the nose.

Looking top notch as usual!

Few things I got done,
Exhaust mounts and extra mounts for the platform.


Repaired the bow hook as mine had the nuts pulled through the glass where it had been over stressed, and only small washer used.



Then shaped the 10mm glass and bonded in with thickened epoxy

Then a layer of biaxial overlapping by an inch then another layer of 10mm glass with biaxial over lapping by an inch,finishing off with a layer of 5mm glass,then biaxial and final coat of quadraxial.



Made the new bow lifting mount out of Silicon Bronze and S/S