Exhaust
 

All new.
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Oh, baby, that looks close in there. Does the hatch close all the way? If it were me, I would rig some hoses and take it out and run it hard, before I drilled any more holes. Just sayin...

Tight!
 

it’s tight! But closes and about a inch maybe two to spare roughly

Good report
 

Good report on my nightmare.

fired off the port side today and ran for quite a while at various RPMS and some breaks in between on the hose.

Absolutely zero water in my oil for the first time in a very long time it seems! I hated to go to dry exhaust but I did what I thought was gonna save my a$$ and put an end to the witch hunt!

Going to do a couple more oil changes to make my self feel better but so far so good!
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Don’t mind my ugly hoses hanging out testing purposes only today.

This must sound crispy !!!

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it DOES! It is rowdy for sureLOL

87CigCafe,

I can remember when my dad swapped a 350 out for a 454 in our '77 Suburban. We were at the shop that did the swap when they fired it up for the first time, with just the exhaust manifolds, and drove it over the trench to do the exhaust work. When they shut it off, my dad and I looked at each other and both of us said, "Sounds fine to me!" :ernaehrung004:

Thanks. Brad.

Good Deal!! :ernaehrung004:

Starboard side
 

Got the starboard side fired off again. So far so good on water and oil here at home. She sounds rowdy!

went ahead and rebuilt both sea water pumps as well today also.
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Update
 

Update. She lives again and all seems great! I think the water in oil nightmare is over
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Looks fantastic, and I’m sure it sounds hair raising! I had played with my exhaust quite a bit on my cafe to keep my tails cool and mitigate any tendency to revert. I was running Hardin Cyclones to a traditional 4 bolt flange tail with a similiar rise to yours. My problem was heat in the riser at idle; couldnt get the heat exchange right. Off idle maybe 1100 rpm on it was good but down low they got hot hot. I ran dumps like yours, had to play around with restrictions while watching water pressure. Keep an eye on your water pressure.

Great weekend!
 

Had a great weekend with the ol girl! We beat on it Thursday Friday and Saturday with no issues FINALLY and I have clean oil for once! Reversion has seemed to be an issue all along? Dry exhaust is loud especially if you are behind it. Going down the lake it’s not terrible but definitely noticeably louder than she was before! I don’t mind it though!
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Congrats brother!

What lake do you boat on?

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it’s called “ Tims Ford Reservoir” about 1.5hr south of Nashville Tennessee in my little town called “Winchester Tennessee “ 10,000 acre man made real deep lake with 3 marinas. Born and raised on this lake it’s fun at times!

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thanks man! Been a long time coming it seems!

Looks great ! You get tired of messing with it, let me know! LOL

Congratulations for sticking to it. Glad to hear you’re finally enjoying it. Looks good.

Thank you!
 

thank you! Means a lot! It has been a long hard road to say the least but I know I’m not the only one. Seeing a lot of threads on here it could have been much worse!

Thanks!
 

thanks man! Means a lot! I’m always tired of it come get it LOL

Congrats!! Glad you have it lined out, looks like you are down there close to the Hawk Tuah Girl :drink:

Ha!
 

i appreciate it man! Long time coming!
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hahaha!! Actually friends with her she was at our marina the other day hanging out!

i could not tell which one she is!

Hatch Repair.
 

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Where it slammed onto my head LOL broken plaque
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This ol girl just keeps wanting to fight it seems LOL

did one more oil change the other day ( all is good there just being cautious )

anyways while I was doing so and in the engine bay. I guess a corner of the hatch “ blew out “ so to speak. Fell down smacked me on the top of the head and pretty well just threw me in the bilge LOL I am pretty sure I was out for a short period.

of course my phone was up on the dash doing me no good. Luckily my wife had happened to come out to the shop and I started yelling! Managed to maneuver my self around to pick the hatch up with my back and prop something in between it and the bulkhead to give me enough space to wiggle out of there. I guess when it broke it slid out of the other existing hinge then pivoted on the two lift rams then decided to take it down with it.

anyways father and I fabbed up some hardware to put on there to eliminate that and take some pressure off those stupid little hinges on the back. I got them coated white before I stuck them on photos you see are for test fitting purposes etc!

All is good now it seems ( for now )

surely this isn’t a factory hinge set up? We all know how heavy this hatch is I’m sure.
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Glad to hear you're all good. Those hatches are heavy.

Glad to hear you are okay. They are stupid heavy, I'm in the process of redoing mine. I needed to raise it and wanted it to look factory, it looks like I will be making a whole new hatch at this point. When they built the hatch for the Cafe's, they made it difficult to modify. Every side has something strange going on.

Poker run!
 

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Got her entered into a poker run this weekend. Did over 100+ miles of running! She did absolutely perfect! Other than a slight headache from the exhaust I am pretty proud of her!

Good job Alex.....:ernaehrung004:........hopefully we can meet up on Table rock

is it really that loud?

Sorta
 

it’s not terrible loud but just the continuous sound of it seems to get to ya a little bit.

I was being a little sarcastic about the ear plugs LOL

Thanks!
 

Thanks man! It’s been a heck of a journey! I hope to make that trip if I can!!

Bilge lights
 

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Still
messing with placement on the lights but thought I would share!

Looking good!

I did went all around the perimeter of the bilge on the 311. I used a kit meant to put LEDs under cars.... has worked really well for the last seven years (only had one tube go out - had backups). Only thing was that it needed to run with a specific controller, but the controller does all kinds of stuff and has a remote.

I'll probably do something similar with the Bullet.

Also... glad you're okay from that hatch falling on you! They are stupid heavy!

nice ! I installed white leds a month or so ago all around the engine compartment perimiter too. not only looks good but can finally see everything clearly even at night, if ever i need to crawl in there and see or fix something !

These seem to be great!
 

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I used to run these on my rock crawlers many years ago. They have an unbeatable warranty “ unvoidable “ as they say! Simple control box with + / - connection simple to the battery and controlled by a remote ( see photo of remote for all the different colors).

local small business near me sells them at a great price as well. If anyone wants the number let me know and I will pass it along tell them I sent you!

the photos above with the red on are just the two small strip pieces turned on. I’m going to add 2 of the oval shaped ones somewhere in there not sure where yet though.

you can either screw these on or double sided tape for the oval ones and for the strip ones they are double sided tape but I’m sure one someone could rig something up if they didn’t like tape.

Just a cool picture.
 

Just a cool picture I took on Labor Day! She sure has come a long way!
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Dang! Looks fantastic. Glad to see it back on the water representin!

Almost time for a winter nap and... some work and or upgrade! :)

Cafe
 

You did a great job. I love the simple, clean graphics. You can be proud you brought this great boat back to where she deserves to be.