1955 CC Hurricane Restoration

skutsch wrote: Alan, what makes it not a "true restoration"?

Yes, I want to know too! You had better PM me. I want to know who's been telling you this.

That carb set looks nice. Funny how people that don't have much interest in Correct Craft can be an authority on Correct Craft. What did Mr. Ralph say?

Riley wrote: Funny how people that don't have much interest in Correct Craft can be an authority on Correct Craft.

This is a sad fact that I fought for 8 years when I held office with the Blackhawk chapter. It happens with all chapters and is a continuing problem. It sure isn't good for membership! They also forget that my Atom has won the Sharpest Arrow award. It's a true judged award given by the Blackhawk chapter and judged by people who do know boats! I'm sorry I wasn't at the show this year since I sure would have told the "old curmudgeons" to shut the f*** up!

81nautique wrote: in the event I ever sell the boat

Now that's the most ridiculous comment I've read on CCF to date.

TRBenj wrote: storm34 wrote: 81nautique wrote: in the event I ever sell the boat Now that's the most ridiculous comment I've read on CCF to date. Not ridiculous at all... I've always figured Alan had a few screws loose.

Ha! I'd say not ridiculous at all because I'm a serial vehicle owner and if Alan is anything like that he's thought about moving on once or twice. You long for a vehicle, enjoy the thrill of the chase and the process of making it better, then it loses it's luster and another shiny object comes along to start it all over with again! Of course this boat was a massive effort but YOLO and there is a lot of cool stuff to own out there!

I like to give Woody Rides too   

Proud to say I drove the Hurricane AND The Correct Craft Fan Orange Nautique.

Who else drove both boats?

Come on Doggie, that's easy. Not only have driven both, skied & footed behind the crush, been towed in by the Hurricane (after breaking down in an unnamed blue mustang with a windshield) also have quite a few hours trailering the Hurricane including a near miss with a Deer in the Mountains of West Virginia

Go Ahead and beat that!!!

quinner wrote: Come on Doggie, that's easy. Not only have driven both, skied & footed behind the crush, been towed in by the Hurricane (after breaking down in an unnamed blue mustang with a windshield) also have quite a few hours trailering the Hurricane including a near miss with a Deer in the Mountains of West Virginia Go Ahead and beat that!!!

I've towed the Hurricane in, so good to see it return the deed.

So nothing ground breaking here but the forums have been slow this week so here's a photo of the intake. I have a clearance issue with the engine bay hatches, even a low profile flame arrestor was going to need to be modified to fit so adding a wedge plate to level the carb was out of the question.

The new intake is really tall and has a huge amount of material at the carb base so I had the machine shop mill it down on the front, 5/8" to 0. That gets the carb within an 1/8" of level, at least while the boat sits on the trailer. At speed especially slow with the bow up it will still be angled back but I think it will be fine. So anyway they milled and corrected the threads so the studs would be 90 to the base again. Now I can start fabricating the throttle linkage support.

Do you have a PCV valve? For some reason the Edelbrock marine carbs have to be drilled out to install a nipple into the base of the carb, while the automotive carbs come with one already installed.

This breather tube will be replaced with a pcv valve

Alan, looking good!

I've had to learn a bit about crankcase venting theory with our bfn- i imagine you have it covered. I'd be a little hesitant to change the set up if what you had before was working well.

I've found the standard PCV valve that a PCM 351 uses to work good on our 312. The engine was newly rebuilt when we got it and it had blow by. I finally figured out that replacing whatever one the PO had installed took care of it. Our breather is on the valley pan and the PCV in the valve cover.