Trip to Tyler Crockett's
 

Last Friday I went to Tyler Crockett's. It was Good Friday so a lot of people were there picking up stuff or dynoing. "Traffic Light" Ed Smith was there telling us stories about what he did with the bus after Kart to Kart.:eek: OSO member MattbMiller was there dynoing his engine. 420+ hp out of a warmed up 330 hp 454. A guy drove from his engine builder in Chicago to dyno his rebuilt engine, only to discover after taking off the plastic wrap, his builder forgot to put on the intake plenum among other things.:rolleyes: An entertaining afternoon.

Typical engines in the shop.

More engines 700 hp 540's

Another happy customer, MattbMiller

George has picked up the new race boat and heading North!

A friends motorcycle with a lot of character. An old Shovelhead. I forgot to ask if he boated.

J.C. sent Tyler a love note.

Tyler is a great guy.Don't see him as much since our friend Curt passed away, unless I show up for some races. He would come to Cola town to party and always took care of Curt's boat. Some of the best built and most reliable motors built on the market.

Thanks again for the help Tyler. Can't wait to see the new boat.:D :cool:

Ian how's Donna coming on oil pans I told her I am going to get her to run down my parts to I only have 7 weeks to rig my new Joker Boat :D

Ken I may make it down to Lake Murrey sometime this summer I may have to do a little Efi tuning for the Boat Doctor.

Serve any cake at your shop?:drink:

Ian you going to dyno those bad boys or are you just trying to take my spot as Tylers buddy:evilb: ?? If I wasn't working 2 jobs and still running my shop I'd like to drop in there more but I do plan on dynoing there in a few months ,Smitty

Smitty, usual problem, I won't have them together until just before the Leopa spring poker run. If I can get them done a little early, I'll have them dyno'd. Tyler hooked me up with his crank grinder. The guy was able to grind the radiuses without touching the journals. The radiuses were so big on my cranks that they were touching the bearings. So much for high quality Crower cranks. Maybe now I can get a handle on my high oil temps. And while the engines are apart, they got bored again and got higer compression pistons..........:D

It's not uncommon to find radius in some crankshaft bigger than .125. I fixture the bearings and re-chamfer them. The bigger the radius the stronger the crank fillet will be. Crower builds an excellent product and we have been using them since 1956!:cool: How's my buddy Davey Crockett? Tell him I said hello! :drink:

Dont even think about getting those things near the boat with out dynoing thats like marrying a girl with out you now what seriously do it my 3 cents worth saves a lot of head aches jim

:D :D

Mr. HP, Crower says in their literature that they're .125. I really don't want to have to deal with chamfering the bearings. Shouldn't they be pretty strong with a .125 radius?

Good way to find oil leaks before they're in your bilge too!:rolleyes:


Matt

Can't wait Tyler. Curt's boat is still going strong. Third owner I think. Any chance you going to Havasu for Desert Storm? Looking forward to having a drink but it won't be a wolf pus?/y.:D

You bought all the good stuff. You will not have a problem.