well thank you fro that nothing i can do i am not going to put a chevy in a boat thats all set up its almost 45 years old and does a honest 90 good enough
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wrong again not asking any questions because i have a Guy who knows it all or most and its best to keep one persons plans that a zoo of people every body has there own idea on what i should or shouldn't do...iam not building the worlds fastest boat or anything like that i am restoring a 45 year old flat bottom to better than new condition so hate away
not looking for advice or attention just posting pictures of my progress and every one wants to bitch about my boat.. i said lets talk about boats,,, rather than about trains vegas a asphalt parking lot with a new speed bump.. just boats didn't want a thread of lets fuck with my boat and see what a piece of shit it is.. i still have not seen anyone talk about boats just talk shit about mine lmao a holes
and yes i was talking about the blown fuel hydros .. yes i know not even close to the same thing but , the outside of the block has the same dimensions as my b/rb i can use some hemi parts bolt right on .. so its closer to a hemi block than any others is all i am saying..
Because I got married right after bringing it home and the new wife has a different priority (It would have helped if her boat that I had professionally painted had held up as well as the B boat). But, she understands I have a need to finish it, so I gather things I need for it and work on little things (without spending enough for her to notice). Nothing worth posting yet. Hopefully this year there will be serious progress.
I know first hand what Stu charges to fill in the bottom so you can reset the strut angle and strut log. While he is doing the floors would be the time to do it. But, it's your boat and if you've had it safely up to 92 and that's all you want from it, do it however you want. As I said before, it's a nice looking boat. But if it's not safe and you get hurt, it affects all of us. So stay safe.
Not knowing something isn't a bad thing. Refusing to admit when you are wrong speaks volumes (think about that every time you see my sig line). I used to know a woman cop that posed for Playboy. She sure did look good in the magazine, if she looked like that in person it would have been even better. Seeing a picture in a magazine doesn't impress me. Getting in a magazine is more about who you know and being at the right place at the right time. If that is what makes you happy, good for you. As for a front row spot at the drags, ewww shiney!!! The boats that can do are out on the course, having a few for the fans to look at is just good business if they look nice. Your boat did look nice. How many of the fans looking at the pretty boat, know if it's right or not? You wanted content in a tech form, that is usually about making things right, not just pretty.
And maybe you could have explained why you felt the need to sandblast the trailer, why you chose what paint you did. There is a lot of things that could have been said that might help someone else. I guess it depends on if you are posting to help others or make yourself feel good.
Yet those of us that were on that day saw you posting about RC cars (no boat content there, even though RC boats were mentioned). Were you too sleepy to move over to the thread you started complaining about a lack of content to add any? Or was there some other reason you avoided that thread until late at night? The I was sleeping explanation doesn't float. And yes I can be an A hole. Just be glad you didn't drill with me or you'd really know how true that could be.
It is winter, but if someone comes on with a genuine interest in learning they are treated very differently than someone who comes on and busts people's chops for not talking about what they want to talk about when they want to talk about it. As others have pointed out, OG doesn't want answers. He has them all, just ask him.
OG you posted originally that you had a 10 degree box, with a 10 degree strut there is no way that would work, but you realized that and corrected it to a 12 degree box. My problem is, I have serious doubts if you would know how to verify either of those. Why don't you post an explanation of how you verified what they are? That would be good boating content and would help someone else maybe learn to distinguish what they have.
You also stated you took a photo and were called out on it because it had a Watermark on it, eventually the original photographer admitted to taking the picture (did you loan them your cell phone to take the pics for the site?)
I also stated your headers look like jet boat headers, you say they aren't. Cool, I asked what angle your engine is at (no content from you regarding that), GN7 looked at the pics and said they look like jet boat headers because they are. Do you think it's possible you might have bought the wrong headers? Maybe they mistakenly shipped the wrong ones? And while I may be mistaken more than some on tech stuff about these boats, I can assure you that GN7 knows more than both of us and certainly knows what v-drive v.s. jet boat headers look like.
Then you are only looking at the threads you want to see. There are 8 threads in V drives alone, not counting the two you are in, since the 1st. Today is the 3rd. Yep no boating content here. Why don't you post up who your answer person is, perhaps they'll weigh in since they have so much content that others could benefit from.
i have verified the headers with rewarder thought the same thing .. rewarder calls them a bell end long tube up swept v drive header.. i had a pair of jet boat headers at first from a ebay ad saying they were off a drive but they were way up there almost a 45 degree angle unless i put them on backwards "hence my comment", as far as not knowing what degree everything is is false i made a mistake on the box and corrected it.. you ever make a mistake ? so now aim being held liable for a mistype which i did correct the v-drive is 12 degrees had it rebuilt at casale a whirl away installed and 29 gears and a new plate thats how i know its 12 degree,, now as far as the strut its stamped 10 degree in two places so is the shaft log ,, so thats how i know,, i have never checked the motor angle but i will when its all re rigged ,, yes plugging the hole in the bottom for the shaft and drilling a new hole is about 200 bucks not bad at all , now i need to flip the boat over and fill the strut and have that recut too maybe 250 , than a new strut , shaft log , prop shaft , v drive its over 5,000 bucks to change the angle the boat is stable aim not a racer and yes it sits at the races on the trailer all shiny , but i did not contact anybody about putting my boat in on or between anything they came to me,, itys not a billy b paint job its not a 140 mph runner bottom on alcohol its not a k-boat its a old wriest and its fine with me...i didn't put any picture comments because it will turn into a pissing match of i did it wrong or this or that ,, once again i am just redoing whats there not reinventing the wheel my friends..one thing i can say is un like most flats that sit on the trailer at the river or lake waiting for a perfect pass. i have mine on anchor all day all weekend in fact ill put it in aslip and leave it there over night .so some one looks at a picture of my upswept headers and says wow your engine is at a STEEP angle well look at the valve covers and make the same comment, i sand blasted the trailer because it had house paint about 1/4" thick.. didn't care to brag.