Pantera at SCOPE Poker Run
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With a race hatch and those dry pipes, this new engine is really gonna scream! Please keep the pictures coming and be sure to post a video when it is together and running.
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Hey thanks for the info! I don't remember Griff telling me that, then again, I had just driven straight from California to Omaha (31 hours) and turned around and drove straight back (27 hours), so Griff could have told me that there was a leprechaun in the anchor locker and I probably wouldn't have remembered!
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I think I missed a post along the way. Sean, are you buying Mike's race hatch? Mike, did you find a used hatch or is Pantera making a new one for you?
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Jo's making him a new one. So now I'll have parts from TWO of the most well talked about Pantera's bolted to my boat!
How's the Ol' Mig doing?!
How's the Ol' Mig doing?!
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Sean - engine is looking great!!! Your gonna have a Monster.
I'm still working away on your old boat. Got paint in the bilge now. I've gone through and doweled and resined and glassed any unused mounting holes in the bilge, stripped the exterior of the transom and did a little massaging back there, it's ready for paint. Right now I'm working under the hull filling and scratches and nicks. Up until yesterday it's been in the 90's here, so this has been a sweaty nasty dirty job. Now all of a sudden we're in the mid 50-60 range. Don't know how much I'll be able to get done this weekend.
I'm still working away on your old boat. Got paint in the bilge now. I've gone through and doweled and resined and glassed any unused mounting holes in the bilge, stripped the exterior of the transom and did a little massaging back there, it's ready for paint. Right now I'm working under the hull filling and scratches and nicks. Up until yesterday it's been in the 90's here, so this has been a sweaty nasty dirty job. Now all of a sudden we're in the mid 50-60 range. Don't know how much I'll be able to get done this weekend.
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Sean - engine is looking great!!! Your gonna have a Monster.
I'm still working away on your old boat. Got paint in the bilge now. I've gone through and doweled and resined and glassed any unused mounting holes in the bilge, stripped the exterior of the transom and did a little massaging back there, it's ready for paint. Right now I'm working under the hull filling and scratches and nicks. Up until yesterday it's been in the 90's here, so this has been a sweaty nasty dirty job. Now all of a sudden we're in the mid 50-60 range. Don't know how much I'll be able to get done this weekend.
I'm still working away on your old boat. Got paint in the bilge now. I've gone through and doweled and resined and glassed any unused mounting holes in the bilge, stripped the exterior of the transom and did a little massaging back there, it's ready for paint. Right now I'm working under the hull filling and scratches and nicks. Up until yesterday it's been in the 90's here, so this has been a sweaty nasty dirty job. Now all of a sudden we're in the mid 50-60 range. Don't know how much I'll be able to get done this weekend.
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For the past few weeks, I've been at the stage of every weekend I've been working on it, but the pics would look the same, the detail things that when you see it in person vs a pic, you'd notice. You know, when you fill something with duraglass, sand it out and feather it in, and there is a small void or "pock mark", the pic never shows it, but the eye will.
This means you need to go back and fill it again. And sand, and feather... Maybe I'm just being too anal about it.
I'm finally getting into the "re-construction" and have something that shows progress instead of tear-down.
My motor guy called me today, and my block is almost ready, heads are done, and cam is on order. It was a standard 330hp 454, and I'm gonna bump it just a little with the cam/carb setup. I don't want to go crazy with this one - just reliable. In a year or two I'll build a monster for her.