Originally Posted by BigSilverCat (Post 4420820)

Could you imagine if we put one of these in a truck and took it to the dealership and told them we think there is something wrong... The look on the technicians face when he opened the hood would be priceless.

Originally Posted by NASCAT (Post 4420814)

I just ran out to my garage and popped the hood of my 2500HD and much to my surprise my engine looks nothing like your masterpieces. Mine have a cheap plastic shroud not the shiny aluminum yours do!

I sort of feel ripped off!

Originally Posted by BigSilverCat (Post 4420911)

I needed to plug this 1 1/4" pipe thread fitting on the sea strainer. Instead of just using that size plug I used a reducer then a 3/4" pipe thread plug. That way if I'm in a hurry and need to use that fitting for something but only need a little hose hooked to it I don't need to try to adapt down from the big fitting and if I need the bigger fitting I just take the whole thing out. Basically gives me options.

This brings up another thing I have done.. Nerd level 3.8 I have a list of every tool that I have used to put something in the boat. When I am in the middle of the ocean I will need to have every tool available to work on the boat that was used to build it. I will have all the normal tools but then there might be somewhere that the only way I can get a bolt out is with 2 - 9/16" open end wrenches. Most people would only have one of each size tool. And this fitting was a good example of why I needed the list. I doubt there is anyone on here that has a 9/16" Allen wrench in there boat tool bag.


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Originally Posted by Cash Bar (Post 4420919)

That's because yours was built in Mexico. By Guatamalan labor. LOL

Originally Posted by speicher lane (Post 4420976)

Big Silver Cat, I was just catching up on your thread - very good read...

.With regards to your strainers and plugs and the earlier posts about using the sea pump as an emergency crash pump... Could you use this fitting (controlled by a ball valve when not needed) as an emergency pick up port with a hose down to the bottom of the bilge - or would it not have enough suction to lift in your application?

Originally Posted by BigSilverCat (Post 4420911)

I needed to plug this 1 1/4" pipe thread fitting on the sea strainer. Instead of just using that size plug I used a reducer then a 3/4" pipe thread plug. That way if I'm in a hurry and need to use that fitting for something but only need a little hose hooked to it I don't need to try to adapt down from the big fitting and if I need the bigger fitting I just take the whole thing out. Basically gives me options.

This brings up another thing I have done.. Nerd level 3.8 I have a list of every tool that I have used to put something in the boat. When I am in the middle of the ocean I will need to have every tool available to work on the boat that was used to build it. I will have all the normal tools but then there might be somewhere that the only way I can get a bolt out is with 2 - 9/16" open end wrenches. Most people would only have one of each size tool. And this fitting was a good example of why I needed the list. I doubt there is anyone on here that has a 9/16" Allen wrench in there boat tool bag.

Originally Posted by BigSilverCat (Post 4420104)

I told you this is a no holds barred build thread. Here is one of the problems we had. I was working with CMI to build the water jacketed exhaust. After going through design stuff on the computer with them I decided it would be easier and more accurate to get the engine and haul it up there and have them build the exhaust right onto the engine to make sure it fits. I spent a few days driving all over the country to get the engine and hauling it up to CMI. When I dropped it off I did not have a rear mount starter so we looked around trying to find one and they said they had one and would put it on and make sure it would clear. They would be done in 3 weeks. Several months later...They called and said they are done and fit good, I specifically ask if they cleared the rear mount starter good and they said yes The exhaust is shipped back with the engine. We open up the boxes and they look pretty good, except the flanges look like my grandma chewed them out of a piece of bar stock with her dentures. We go to put the header on and the hole in the flange to bolt it to the head is not big enough for the bolt to go through it? How did they have them on the engine when the hole in the flange is not big enough for the bolt? We drill the hole out to the size of the bolt and the hole is half a hole off to the side. After reaming all the holes a little bigger to get the bolts through them we cannot get any two to line up right. We had to machine out to the edge of the flange on some of them to get them to bolt on. Then we go to put the back turbo pipe on and it goes directly across where the starter would go. It is one piece and does not line up with headers. What makes me mad about this is I spent a lot of time driving around the country getting the engine and taking it to them to make sure they fit and they never bolted them to it. They were supposed to build them on the engine as a jig. I called a few times and they said to send them back and they would try to fix them but that it might take a few months to get to them. We had already modified the headers to fit even tho they really need a new flange welded on. But I am going to take the turbo up pipe over there next week and see if they can make new ones. And like I said I'm mad they did not try them on the engine after telling me they did, wasting my time taking it there but if they take care of fixing them I will be ok with it.

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