Jessie,

Thanks for the kind words. Yes I have the BEST team I could have found on this project and they are not missing a trick.

Jason has me thinking about a Baja regatta and I would really like to do this. I'll keep you posted.

Mark

I would really be interested in the regatta. Keep us posted and keep putting those sick pictures of your 36 up. I'm really impressed by it. I keep checking to see what you've posted every day.

You REALLY want me to edit that list dont you? :drink:

Dave, I know I've said this before, but, I can't thank you enough for the mirrors. Thanks again buddy.

Questionable? Really, you mean that? Awwhhhh your the best!

Thanks Doc. That is quite a promotion from what I am normally called. One of the nicest things anyone has ever said about me AFTER they have met me. Hell, I guess I can call you a friend now!
:ernaehrung004:

TB - lets celebrate my promotion to "questionable" with a few Shastas on Monday! I'll meet you at your place @ 8am to get started. Let's see if we can get through 2 cases each by 8pm? That is only 4 Shastas an hour. We can do it!

I call BS! How do you skip the title Bilge Rat and go straight to Questionable? You should still be trunk monkey till the end of the year!http://www.islandpirates.net/forum/i...lies/Rules.gif

:ernaehrung004:

See what happens when I run out of pictures!

Feel the LOVE:evilb:

You are much more than a bilge rat.:rolleyes:

Only for Clayton.

I think SCARY would have been a better choice.

Well the Deer slayers are still MIA somewhere in the woods of southern Ohio.

But the good news is Adam is hard at work in his machine shop machining a plate to go under the sudpad for the actuator to mount to and also machine a stainless steel tube to go over the actuator with some really cool tricks to it to allow the sunpad to be raised up higher if needed and he is also putting some teflon/delrin on the ends to keep the tube from scratching up the polished actuator.

Then they go to Clayton at Kustom Kolors for painting.

This project is almost complete!:drink:

What did you run for gearing in the drives ?

JT we stayed at 1.5 so I can have a good base line comparision from stock.

If I go with shorties I may play with the ratio.

You'll want the 1.36's or you'll have blowout troubles with the big wheels, plus I have found that anything over 30" is kinda hard to come by in the used department.

If you want to try my 32 max 5 blades,.... they're not
going to be doing anything for a while...and they've been over
90 MPH, let me know.

I need some more pics. Your helping me get through the winter. If they can't find a deer tell them to ride with me in my work truck. Four of them have ran in front of me on I-70.

I'm ready for the Big Blow Out we are planning in Bucyrus!:evilb:

I have a pair of 32's and a pair of 34's we will see what they do and go from there.

Thanks buddy as soon as I see where we are with my props I will get in touch with you.

Did you run them over 90 with the 575's?

Hey you know how most of these deer hunting trips go.

Liquor & Guns, what a combination!

They are probably drunk trying to stay warm by a fire telling lies.

I should get some pictures soon from Adam on his maching work.

Yep, when the conditions were right it would,
....just as long as it wasn't in June, July or August;)

Dock

I was thinking of something the other day. If it can be done, I would recommend that your wizard boat guys fab up some way to pull clean intake air from the back of the boat. If I can dump my side mounted Whipples and go with top mounts like you have, I am going to make duct work that pulls fresh air from under the sunpad at the rear of the motors. It really kills the power when it is a 90 degree day out and the bilge temp is up around 130 or so. Just a thought, sorry I didn't tell you sooner.

That is true.

Mine would loose couple hundred rpms after about
30 seconds of w.o.t....after adding the system I fabbed
up to only draw in outside air, they didn't fade away
anymore.

Smitty & JT

Thanks I agree and believe me I have given a lot of thought to this and looked at three different modification options.

What I did was opt for the Stage II intercooler and the low water pick ups dedicated for the intercoolers in hopes that it will e very effective against heat.

I know two guys one with a 33 and one with a 40 that both say I will get enough air in. We will see?

The wife does not want scoops and I have actually come up with an idea for scoops that will not be on the sun pad.

We are so far along now that I'm ready to run it and see exactly where we are and will probably have to make any additional changes next winter.

I'll keep you guys posted for sure. JT your setup is really sweet and I have to applaud you on the design.

Dock

PICTURES!!! We need pictures!

Jason,

JT has 575sc motors so the air filters are on top. He built boxes around them and he pulls air from the side vents.

You and I have the side mounted Whipples, so it would work on the stb motor, but it would look like $hit to pipe over to the port motor.



Dock,

I was not thinking about any scoops or anything, just pulling air from the same spot that the bilge blower hoses are located in.
I am excited to see how your boat runs. Keep us posted.

Thanks,

Smitty

WOW. That thing is unreal. I love the new cockpit setup.

I have considered mounting a bilge fan in each of the side vents on the 33. Would be simple to do.
I have been having some problems with vapor lock in hot weather. Seems like with pushing fresh air in through the side vents and pulling it out with the bilge fans should help.

OK, so there are some shot-up trees in southern Ohio that don't like me now, but the deer are still running. Time to take a couple days to work on the boat with Adam, and get some updated photos for all. Not sure if Lane got his deer yet, but I will make another attempt myself this Sat/Sun.

XT:rolleyes:

Hmm,

Well I'm glad you had a good vacation Dave, and I'm glad you did not shoot yourself in the foot. I guess you spent a lot of money on food, ammo, beer, etc which helps the economy and certainly you needed some time off and a little R & R. But you could have at least lied and told us you got a small deer. After me hearing about all the BIG deer in the thousands up there I am a little disappointed! One of my boating buddies just headed up there yesterday and was also telling me how big the deer are. Now if he gets a nice one I will have to give you a hard time!

As mentioned above by SONIC we need pictures!

Get back to work!

Dock

He got a deer, he just didnt think anyone would believe it was real!

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The picture makes Dude's ears look like Dumbo's. Not Bambi, the guy holding Bambi.

This is how I hunt my deer.

I'm calling BS. There is a blurry spot in the photo in the top left. I'm saying Photoshop on that one.

The only thing I have to say about that deer is that it would have been an unfair kill. That deer would have been a sitting duck because with that rack it had to be STUCK between two trees!:rolleyes:

Okay back to the Baja 36 Outlaw Project.

The boys are back and sober so the project continues.

Batteries are mounted in my collectable "TRICK MARINE" battery mounts and the custom single switch battery box is installled and everything is wired up.

Here is the triple rear bolster that is pictured on the McLeod website. Mike custom built this a few years back for a friend of his that also had a 36 Outlaw.

Well here's the one that Mike and Stephanie built for me.

It was a lot of work on the part of the guys at XT to make it fit. They had to do several modification to the seat base.

That is quickly becoming a $Million dollar seat base!

It is finally mounted and looks GREAT.

Thanks guys:ernaehrung004:

Dock that looks killer. I can't wait to see the interior totally finished.

Well I received this picture today and I was a little confused about it so I shot an email to Dave.

Turns out this is the back of Doug's head while he is installing extra LED's in the cuddy.

Inside the seat base

looking down into the engine compartment

Underneat the sunpad

Note the LED lights that will shine down on the engines.