congrats Mike...sounds good!

Yeah I was talking to him about this last week and again on Sunday. Just sounded crazy to me to be running 36° timing with the boost cranked way up like that. He did say it was hard to start there, but it ran great. My fear was (is) that he very seldom pushes the boat and wasn't actually seeing much (if any) boost so the engines were 'safe' at that timing... until the day he decides to push it, and I'm sure he'd never hear the detonation in that thing!

Anyway, back to the Apache! Hoping the tweaks get done this week and the boat is back in the water soon Mike!

Thanks kev, mushroom cleats, grab handles, and cabin door just can back from coating. Will be installed over the weekend. Taking the CC out tonight. I will have most back togather Friday night.

Sweet Video! Looks good!

Thanks I'll get more when I fix the stupid sh1t and put the rest of the parts I just got

Looking good Mike.

congrats mike awesome sounding boat, good luck with her

Another sol did afternoon/night put into it. Mushroom cleats are on. Put the cabin interior back together. Grab handles are done. Had to rebuild trim rams on drive they were real tight drives didn't want to trim under load. Cabin door is also in. Probably my favorite part of the boat thus far. Hit it hard again tomorrow doing fuel system reply finish the lite wiring, had to build spacers bezels would not clip in due to coushin thickness. That's the upday. Same channel tomorrow.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]525374[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]525375[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]525376[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]525377[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]525378[/ATTACH]couple pics from last night while I grab some lunch and get back on the boat

Looks great, enjoy her, there great boats.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]525398[/ATTACH]Doing my best with it hopefully everything comes in tomorrow to finish up the boat mechanically. Scoops should be done Thursday. A variation of this is going on as design.

Cool graphic
better be careful -the goverment might come after you like they are the washington redskins....lol

Yup they can blow me

[ATTACH=CONFIG]525684[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]525685[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]525686[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]525687[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]525688[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]525689[/ATTACH]Finished the fuel rerig late last night. Today just tidied up the rest of the bilge and cabin. Scoops getting picked up tomorrow

I like the changes you made in the fuel delivery system, especially the location of the separators keeping them low. Good job Mike.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]525847[/ATTACH]Fuel pressure dead 7 ran them on the hose to set the idle mix screws and get the blower roll out as much as possable. Scoops are done just didn't have time to get them last night. Hopefully all puzzle pieces are in the correct orientation

That's where I run mine.

What range plugs do you like? 8's? 9's?

Depends on the engine and heads. For mikes iron heads on these 454's prob 9's. Same setup with aluminum 8's. More boost and aluminum heads 9's

Motors are at 32 full adv

what do you have for drives?

Bravo boat. Looking to buy? Haha

I see it's now for sale on Powerboat Swap. What went wrong???

Lost a hole stb motor haven't looked into it yet just tired and turned off

Sorry but no giving up! You have not enjoyed it enough to throw in the towel! Chop chop, get your wrenches young man!

I've got a good .060 over Mark IV 454 block & pistons if you want to throw another short block together.

how much?

No more drive or energy for this after the speed bump now I'm taking some time off

Is this listed somewhere non facebookers can see it?

Hey sorry been a while sine I posted on the thread. Had a cracked plug that was the whole issue. Have a couple of runs coming up in the next couple weeks we shall see how it does ocean running.

They do that when they are detonating.

[ATTACH=CONFIG]527744[/ATTACH]Fall River poker run. Had Baja Fresh from Cali SLBoatdrinks from Boston riding with me. All went well.

So you stuck it out and got it in the water! Glad to see it come together for you.

Thanks J came out well still a few finishing touches but it's usable

nice looking boat, congrats

Glad to see you decided to look into the problem and found it was a simple fix. Now, enjoy it!!

LOOKS GREAT MIKE.
ALWAYS NICE TO SEE A PROJECT DONE AND IN THE WATER,
just down to tighten' screws and polishing chrome .......now

[ATTACH=CONFIG]528032[/ATTACH]Helo pics are up here is 1 of them

Any one get me in touch with Bob S had a couple questions for him.
Thanks

http://youtu.be/DrzqSeueq1g
Short clip from Nickotine, back seat was out due to a bad fuel reg I was swapping out. Boxer Surphen had a friend with a speed shop who had the reg. kept me in the run that's to all.

Is it running good now?

You did a good job. I always likes your particular boat.