ive got some pics of the interior and engine bay...gimme your email and i send some to ya...

im not runnin a blower....just a 750 holley DP with an hp500 arrestor.

im using over the transom headers...it looks old school. all i need now is 10 inch chrome chain steering wheel! lol i swear ima put one on this summer.

an hour is nowhere near the record. i didn't even get to half throttle first run when a valve head popped off. ate the block. maybe 3 to 5 minutes.

[email protected] lol close to a jet iv got a set of bassett headers a year old bought new last year if your interested oh and a set of gills to your better of gettin rid of the wet headers i lost two moters from that water in oil im putting stelling dry headers on mine thru transom like to see the pixs of your hatch im building a new hatch thanks

May sound stupid....but here goes.

I have always been taught to run a fresh engine at low rpms up to temp with the boat on a the trailer backed into the water then change the oil and filter. Cheap insurance to flush out anythign that may have been left behind. I know, a good builder should have a squeaky clean fesh engine, but lots of places for crap to hide

You mention the work done. I hope the engine was hot tanked, why was it rebuilt? Was the oil cooler flushed or replaced?

Not stupid at all, thats what I do, have two sitting next to the house to do when february is gone. I can't imagine running new mills with the initial oil loaded with assembly lube and all other byproducts of assembly. After that an hr or two on the water running easy with rotella, then amsoil sythetic.

thanks for all the input guys.

i dont know if the engine is junk or not....

.but here is what i do know:

-the engine had 9 quarts of oil in a stock steel pan (too much IMO)
-the oil pressure was good at idle (40+psi) and slowly dropped (25 psi) at WOT then came back at idle
-the filter i cut open today had maybe 10 tiny ultra thin flakes in the folds of the filter element (there was no copper anywhere)
-the engine otherwise ran falwlessly

if the engine has a serious mechanical problem that warrants it bein pulled and dismantled then i would really like to know why. me and my builder are gnna have a series of very serious discussions. my engine is not a "high dollar" engine but i paid my hard earned money for it to be built and the result is unacceptable. my builder and i actually cu tthe filter open together and he says what we found concerns him as well and is gonna go to the ramp with me tomorrow after i change the oil and filter and test run it with me.

he says its not game over yet....and the engien may in fact be good to go...but he agrees with Raylar and others: this is not the norm.

If you still have the filter, post a pic it's worth 1,000 posts.

I will see if I can find a pic of a filter with copper in it and post it. Any time I have found flakes it was time to tear it apart.

i left the filter with builder a this shop where we cut it apart. i was just doin it for fun out of boredom.....wow.....not so much fun now. lol

i will see if i can get it and post it up.

$hit happens...i just wanna know why it happened.

the flakes i found were supr super thin....like way thinner than paper. and there may have been ten ....maybe no that many.....but several.....but aside from just those flakes there was virtually nothing!

so the consensus is: change oil and filter. light run time on the water. observe oil pressure with correct amount of oil in pan, cut filter and check again for flakes and debri.

?????

if it is a merc marine pan,it probibally is a 8 qt pan.it may be the oil pickup is to close to the pan,WHEN IN DOUBT-CHECK IT OUT.just had to say it