Century MkII

Thought yoous guys would like to see a 1970 Century mK II 340 in decent shape.

Now that I set it up it goes really good despite being saturated, I suspect, and everthing but the carb and distributer is cast iron and heavy.

Put in a new Mallory YM, my old holley 600, 2" spacer and hardline and it runs nice now. Very strong.

goes about 47 with a mildly muckled prop; I'm sure it has more to find but thats good enough to get it out of my yard and back to the joe who asked me to get it operating, he couldn't get on plane this year,

besides, it doesn't turn well under power, need some rudder mods too, new prop, other manifold needs to go, too. So it will get even heavier with another osco.

Yes, it looks this good after being in the water all season. Original gell. Orig apolstery. Has a padded rear deck that I had off for this service.

Fun but its no skiboat

340 chrysler/Paragon vdrive

enjoy

Thanks eric, I may need to do that. but it will out for the season by the weekend.

If it ever becomes available, I'll try to steer it to an enthusiast not a hack. Who knows. The boat has a lot of potential and a great foundation.

The tranny was out of the boat just 3 years ago, so its a shame it looks as it does and I'm certain it didn't get the full breakfast package you could have given it. It tends to froth fluid out the breather at high speed.

I'll try to get a look at the invoice to see if the ujoints were changed.

Will do.

I learned/reinforced some things on this project.

When the plug readings are all over the place, its an indicator they are firing at different times. Ditching the floppy automotive accel dualpoint for the YM cured that. That produced seat-of-the-pants power.

The other is that the engine's state of tune can really induce and exacerbate a porpoising problem. This thing used to flop above 30 mph but now its rock steady simply beacuse the engine is strong and responsive. Makes sense now but the difference is beyond dramatic.

wow.

Yes, it is nice, and the glass is thick like old CC's.

Only a compound buff and it would look great, just few scratches. The white line on the side is just an artifact of reducing the size of the picture to 25%. Its a mean looking boat on the water.

Its sitting lower in the water than it did years ago, I think the cavities are saturated and I know some lags spin so floors and stringers are in order

Its most likely the 1:1 because its spinning a 13x14 prop, original I bet, its stamped 4/70

It would really fly with dry foam, a modern prop, and an aluminum diet on the manifolds (or ss)

I had an old Century Buccanner 17
Mostly the sme hull and different deck,it would suck air t the prop and straighten out in the corners.I bought an unbalanced rudder from Glenwood.It would turn very well after that,but since it had the deep vee to the hull it turned better if you backed out a bit lrt it take a set then added power back during the turn.Also it too had some lag screw problems.On it I used a long bit and removed wood till I found good fiber in the shavings coming out and then filled with Epoxy.Worked great I still know where this boat is and still in use.I repowered it in !987 about with commander 300.

Ols Century's are nice rides,I'm still looking for a Resorter 17'w440 or 454

munday

Eric, You never commented on Tom's statement about the trans frothing fluid out the breather at high speeds. I'm curious!