Tyler Crockett Marine
 

Any one ever heard of Tyler Crockett Marine ? Im looking at a used boat with a 496 Built by them. Below is a list of upgrades, they claim its pumping out 560 HP - on the Dyno

Wonder what poeples thoughs are on as far as relibility with this type of set up. Im looking for somthing I can run like stock with lttle worries.



Big Computer Chip
Stainless Headers
600 Lift Crane, Roller Lifters & Cam
Heads are Ported & Polished
Bigger Exhaust Valves
Dyno Report Shows 560-hp @ 5200 RPM
Turn-Key Engine runs on pump gas

http://www.crockettmarineengines.com/products.html

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Tyler has a great reputation and following here on OSO.

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Smitty here on OSO has some motors done by him. Dave is picky and I've never heard him say a bad word about Tyler.

Buck

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Tyler is one of the best out there.

I have two friends that have had excellent results with his engines.

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Tyler is a excellent motor guy and has always treated me with respect, even if I was not correct. He is the only guy to work on my Phantom. Give him a call I am sure he call tell you anything you want to know about the boat and motor package

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Tyler is a good guy and he stands behind his products,I have only heard good things about him on pleasure as well as race aplications. :D

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Tyler is a great engine builder, He did a couple of whippled engines for me. They started and ran great. He also worked with GM on testing, teardown and reporting on the 496's for development of the engines for racing. I think they are called the HP4? He also worked with raylar on a package for their 496 upgrades.

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Tyler is a great guy, i was looking at a boat that he built the motors in and he was a great help with all the work that was done and sent me a list of what he put in them

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And his brothers name is Dave. You have to trust Davey Crockett..............All kidding aside. Tyler is a stand up guy. Give him a call. Smitty

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Just be careful.....you might find a few energy bar wrappers and cans of Full Throttle in the motor !!!!! :D They don't come any better than Tyler. Honest and one of the best in the business. Dave

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Does he build motors for Papa Dukes?

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Tyler is the man. Call him if you have a question on the motors. He is a very honest engine builder.

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:D :p :drink:

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Tyler is as good as they come. He tuned and dynoed my 502 with a procharger he did a great job. Made 740hp and 740 ft. lbs. of torque. He just built a 540 with a Whipple for a friend of mine. It had some tuning problems so he flew here to Va. to work on it. Got the problems all worked out and ran 102.4 in a 29 Fountain during the Potomac Radar Run.

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As Buck stated I am picky and I highly recommend anything that Tyler works on from boats to cars to Harley's.

Smitty

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So thats the big secret... ok I'm taking notes :evilb:

All kidding aside Tyler is a stand up guy and even though I bought a boat with the competition(blue) motor in it, he has helped me out with any questions that I had and has done some work for me. Hes been in the business some 20 odd years now, you dont last that long putting crap out.

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He's one of the few engine builders that still sports a mohawk!! Now I don't care where your from thats funny,lol.
On top of being among the best in the business, he's a good guy.

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Never had one of his motors but he's a hell of a racer. :cool:

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I chose to do business w/ Tyler because of his great reputation , especially here on OSO. He is our "Official ORL Engine Re-sealer" , I would highly reccomend him.

Brian Hollis
www.OffshoreRacingLeague.com
770-560-3747

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JBoat,
I think you have the idea by now as to Tyler Crockets' reputation.
There are a number of good/reputable engine builders out there. Tyler is indeed one that is at the top of the game. Not only is it true that Tyler has done quite a bit of R&D on the 496 for GM and himself, but he has also built racing engines for a whole fleet of offshore racing teams ranging from A clas, B class, Factory 1 and Factory 2, the old Super V class and a host of Outlaw performance class race boats. He was one of the select few APBA Authorized Factory Racing rebuilders, and has his name on a bunch of offshore, lake and river screamers on the water.
In short, Don't think twice about the power, just make sure the rest of the boat is OK.

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Tyler is the best in the business.He told me himself :drink: And he has Davey Crockett putting engines together for him. :cool:

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wow thanks for all the feed back you guys are making me feel allot better about this potential purchase. Sound like I shouldnt have too much to worry about. Now if I can find a buyer for my boat all be all set.

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Tyler has several customers in SC and a great reputation. Very nice guy!

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Tyler's upgraded/built three engines for me and all are still running flawlessly. He builds for reliability and torque - exactly what you need in a boat. When I visited his shop he showed me a set of 496 heads that he upgraded by reshaping the combustion chamber, porting, etc. and they looked great. He was on the ground floor with GM on the 496 development.

Randy

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I have approximately 400 hours on blower motors with no problems to date. I recently had compression tests conducted and they still are strong. I do change the oil regularly and don't abuse the engines. Tyler is a stand up guy and I would recommend him to anyone. He will always do my serious engine work.

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tyler is one of the top engine builders here right next to jc :D

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Tyler tuned my blown 540 on the dyno,he was one of the first guys to be able to rtune mefi3's and has done develipmental work for gm. You could eat off the floor of his engine assembly room. If I didn't know how to build my own motors he is one of the few guys I would trust to do it,Smitty

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Tyler installed the upgrade kit you linked on your original post to our 454MAG this year. The boat, 2000 Checkmate 259 Convincor, went from 65mph to 72mph @ WOT with the kit and a different prop. Could not be happier with his work.

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Tyler is a stand up guy, Dont worry about the motor just take a hard look at the rest of the boat!!!





Spark

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Tyler put together a 570 HP engiine for me and it also has been bullet proof.

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Tyler tunned some motors for us one of them was a 540 with a M-4 Procharger it made 1100HP and 1200 torque. It runs great and it still running to this day and that was 3 or 4 years ago.

Bill Kingery

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Nice to hear so many positive things about our ORL engine re-sealer and dyno guy. I'm looking forward to working w/ Tyler.

www.OffshoreRacingLeague.com

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Tyler is a great guy, as you have seen. He did the "turn key" motor for the 29 Fountain that I rigged. We had a few issues, mostly related to "bolt on" components, and Tyler made sure that all problems were resolved. He also flew to Virginia, to "tune" the engine in the boat. That made an enormous difference in the economy and operation of the engine. In addition he made some extra efforts to help Boost :evilb: some additional performance for a local radar shoot. Great guy.

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All he did was remove the stripper pole and Chris from it and it went 8 mph faster. :evilb:

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I owe Tyler a BIG thank you from an incident a few years ago... we were at the ramp at a poker run in the thousand Islands. We had a big Skater with Mercs and a cross threaded spark plug hole. Tyler was on a day off relaxing when he came by. After seing our situation he crawled in the bilge cleaned out the thread with a tap and saved the day.

Note; not his motor and on holidays he got dirty for some guys he never met before.

I can only imagine how far he would go for a real customer.

If I wasn't clear that day Tyler, "Thank you".

Mark

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If you want to read more about what Tyler has to say, pick up HOT MAGAZINE. He is a Technical Columnist for the mag.

Yes Masher he has.
He had a killer motor in Destin for Dukes to run up against, but unfortunately his boat's bottom couldn't withstand the torture any longer.... :(

That would have been a tight race with him and the Dukes.

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Tyler who? :D

One of the best!!!

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LMAO!!! :D

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Enough...enough....His prices are going to go up and his head wont fit his helmet anymore !!!!!:D :D :D :drink: Dave

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Tyler is a great guy, he took the time to help me select a custom grind cam specs for my motor.