Do you start your engines at the same time?

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09-24-2007 | 01:17 PM

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Edward R. Cozzi

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Originally Posted by thunderusone

Starting both engines at the same time is very hard on your muffler bearings......not to mention what it will do to the coolant levels in your alternators.....

Not to mention the strain on your timing strings!

09-24-2007 | 01:22 PM

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Jupiter Sunsation

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Not to mention the strain on your timing strings!

If you do it with a pair of diesels it will ruin the spark plugs

09-24-2007 | 02:34 PM

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UNSANE

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Originally Posted by thunderusone

Starting both engines at the same time is very hard on your muffler bearings......not to mention what it will do to the coolant levels in your alternators.....

Yes but if you use synthetic blinker fluid and wait for a high tide, you'll be ok.

09-24-2007 | 02:59 PM

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Chris Sunkin

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Originally Posted by jmeng

Someone told me years ago: "The only thing that sounds better than cranking up a big block with straight exhaust is cranking up the 2nd big block"

Reminds me of Al Copeland's Cougar 50 and Tom Gentry's wooden 48. Side by side at the docks, firing up four-each, those Merc 500EFI's on race gas. The sound and the smell....