Yes, that is my boat. I think that would have been Tuesday or Wednesday after Skaterfest two years ago. I think that was when I parked it there.

I have it in my garage working on it again. I am making a secondary thermostat housing for the back of the engine. When its running hard the front stays about 185' or so with the 180' thermostat but the back is 230' with a #8 hose coming out of the back of the head and running overboard trying to get more flow back there. I'm going to switch to 160' thermostats and have one at each end of the engine. And when I put the back turbo on I'm going to make a bigger brace down to the transmission to help support its weight.

Is it possible do water manifolds and put water in antifreese plug holes or make holes and threads to block? I mean water goes in at least 3 or 4 points and get out similar way to water manifold from head. This kind of circuit work well on long engines like inline six. I changed my racecar coolin from longitudinal to transverse and it works fine. I also reverse the flow, cold water goes to head first and come out from block. Head need more cooling than liners. I do it that way to transmash, so front and back of engine stay same temperature.

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Audi have do it like this

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any updates?

They had a baby girl about a month ago and bought a new house, as well. May be a little bit before the 50 is on the front burner again.

Congrats to the 2 of them! Sadly for us....probably no updates on this for a while.

Thanks, yes Tristan and I had a daughter February 26th and for her birth....day I bought her a doll house.

We live in an apartment in the back of my machine shop downtown so I do not have a yard so I had to buy a house because here soon we will need a yard and a safer area for her to grow up at.

I will not be racing this year so the 141 days I spent working on the race boat and going to races I will be able to spend that time working on my boat and hopefully not too much of that time working on the house. I bought the lot next to the house so I can build a big garage for the boat to make it more convenient to work on.

I have started working on the boat again when Reagan is “asleep”, this week I took the drives back off and switching rotation back to out. I tried in but it made the porpoise a lot worse. I was trying to get it not to porpoise at around 100 mph to be a cruise speed but it looks like our cruise speed is going to have to be around 110 to not hop. I’m also welding a “flange” to the edges of the air intake/snorkel/carnival cruise ship stack, to force more air through the engine compartment because all the turbos and piping are generating a lot of heat.

I will start doing updates more often as I work on it. and I will put up a video of trying to get my daughter to learn how to drive it, what age should she be able to start driving it? 4 months? 5 months? Hopefully before the shootout.

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Your best creation yet Mr. Garvin. Congrats to you both.

Cute little girl, parenthood changes you (in a good way). Congratulations.

I think between a new house and a new baby, those 141 spare days will not go far. :)

RR