Damn sutphen, I got a limp now from reading that.

hey,,the way I look at it,,it saved my life.I used to push every toy to the limit,,got rid of the 9sec street bike,got rid of the porsche,kept the boat and the truck.so I slowed down a bit.:Dall I know,accidents can happen in the blink of an eye.
I really miss riding wheelies on my mountain bike.

I used to design bridge cranes as an engineer and what concerns me about your rig is sway control. The cg is quite high from the pics. Adding some longer sway bracing fore and aft would be a cheap insurance adder to not ending up like s30. Now that said, I'd never put up a pic of my rube goldberg crane that is about to go into service soon. Mine makes yours look like a work of engineering crane design mastery haha.

No wonder you throttle big blocks like you hate them ! Cause they still piss you off. LMAOF>

LOL.

Wholly cow !

if somebody stole my boat,they drive it way easier than me.:D
for the record,,I did blow that engine up,guess it didn't like 6400 rpm's and 300°+ oil temps(yeah yeah,oil coolers were to small at the time).pulled engine on a sunday and rebuilt it in 3 days and back in the boat still warm from running it on the stand friday nite.boating saturday.called in alot of favors that week.

So far I've removed the intake and other components off of the motor going to dyno. Ordered felpro 1211 intake gaskets for reinstall. Tonight I have to deal with the mess of removing the oil cooler and lines and continue prepping for dyno. Will have to do some grinding on the rear of the intake to make a flat spot for 1/4 npt tap.

I know how much we all like pics, here is all i have right now on my phone. I know i was running rich last season, you can see it on the intake valve on #7. I hope this year cleans that up some. That oil cooler set up is was my "genius" diy undertaking with the help of some pics off the net. I'm canceling that set up in favor of the square head mount.

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1. Fill to height of notch without it being screwed in.
2. Fill till it starts to come out
3. Boost Gauge hook up.

Another thing on the 177's. Change the lube often. I used to change mine every 25-30hrs with every oil change.
You have to suck the lube out. I used to just use a 30cc syringe with some tubing on the end.

Just got done painting the one intake that's gotta go on for dyne. tomorrow the blower gets painted and next week it goes to dyne. here's a pic of one of the many little side projects going on.

3/16 acrylic cut with a battery powered jigsaw and shaped with a heat gun. Going to wrap it in matte CF 3m Dinoc. what you guys think on gauge placement? i was thinking symmetrical but I kind of like having two of the same gauge side by side for easy reference at a quick glance. The two outer I will keep as boost as those are the least risky out of fuel pressure, water pressure and boost.

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Funny u mention that. The most I got out of 454 with 420 mega blowers was 665hp Took a while to even get that. Turned out the exhaust was blowing out the port and showing high egt's. Leaned the 750's way back and got everything back to snuff. Should have just stroked them and strapped 177's on them and gained 75-100 hp. More power with less money. Lol. That was many years ago.

Ouuuuuch............