Must be another 280 out there, this was around 4:00 sunday it looked all white but I was in a cove (Dredge Harbor) with out my glasses on. I run a 21 Formula (bule) MissMyMoney.
Well I hope you get the last few bugs worked out and enjoy the rest of the summer.
Tom

My boat is mostly white but the arch tells it apart from most of the others
I saw a big blue Cig outside of Dredge just sort of floating around but man that thing looked schweet
Older but bad ass none the less
I think that one is supercharged
Did you happen to see that outerlimits blast by earlier in the day?
that one is up at Trenton I think
Blue with yellow and some orange and a big black checked flag down center of the sides?
Man we heard that thing coming and did not see it until he was right under the ben franklin bridge and he was hauling ass
(were at KatManDu eating at that point)
4 pm sounds about right for us to be heading north past dredge harbor area
Maybe it was me dunno
but yeah my biznatch is LOUD
You can hear me coming from really far away
Jason

Jason it may have been you that we saw. It was loud!!!!
The cig is supercharged and sounds sweet, that was the 1st time I have seen it.
Tom
We will be out all week, the wife is off this week and wants more time on the boat, we should be somewhere between philly and trenton every night this week. let us know if you will be out and we will look for you. also fireworks this saturday in burlington.
Tom

You are getting a load of good advise here Jay13... excessive oil heat I think is your problem. I blew one on memorial day that was acting just like you describe.... sept I have oil temp gauges and the one that blew was hitting 300-320 after a hard run!!!! 250-270 cruising. You open your motor up much and you may end up with a match to the one on a pallet in my garage.

I like the valve spring idea. That may have been my problem cause I had high pro alum eledbrock heads on that I didn't spec. Broke my spring compressor trying to remove valves over winter. The end result of my $5k distaster was exhaust valve head on #1 decided to part ways with the stem and you know what that does. Mind you, this was a "new" motor with less than 20hrs. Howdya like that in your future? I can tell you from experience it sucks!!!

Other thoughts are extremly lean condition... whats the color of the plugs?, do you still have a windage tray?, water sepage in from the exhaust causing detonation. Water infiltration fromthe exhaust is what I've been thinking caused my grenade until Audacity mentioned the valve springs. If I were you, I wouldn't do **** without the engine builder on board until you figure this out!! I'd also spend $50 for an oil temp guage/sender.

As my grandpa always said.. "A word to the wise is sufficient".

BT :cool:

Jay,

See about 3/4 down on this old post about oil temps. You can build a temp gauge for 13 bucks and swap it between your two remote filter adapters. Just remove the hex head plug in the remote adpater and do as I outlined in the thread.
http://www.offshoreonly.com/forum/sh...hlight=walmart

Good luck, shoot the little ones before they get big.

Tim T.

Jay

Did you do anything to the q-jets before putting them on or are they still in stock 330 hp form ?

Bo

Plug reads are very tricky when you are using fuel that does not contain lead.

i DON'T have a ton of confidence in this engine builder...he put the engine part together and that's it!!...how are you going to dial in a cam, double check the cam was ground correct, set and check lash....on and on....and have coil bind and bend the damn push rods....KEEP AN EYE on this guy and document everything...you let him tell YOU what oil to run, at what level, and what oil change interval!...sorry dude i just see a bad ending to this story.... i would love nothing more than this engine to go 400+ hours for ya!!!

Okay Yeah Jersey Devil, Yes then that was probably me, My exhaust is dry so she is LOUD
She is REALLY LOUD
I wanted her to sound like that outerlimits or that blue Cig that went ripping by.
Wanted everyone in PA and NJ to hear me coming miles away HEHEHEHE
So I think I have succeded in that arena no doubt but it sucks cause I want to hear from a shore line what my boat sounds winding up and ripping by (need someone to video tape me blasting the tower!!!)
Okay the rochester Qjets were not messed with that much
We threaded the set screws in the front of the carbs all the way in on both primaries and then backed them out 1 and a half turns which from what I was told is a good baseline to start at.
They might have to come out another half turn
As for the oil temp, I have no clue, I spoke to the engine builder and was told to swing by and pickup a hard mount oil pressure gague and screw it into the block, then he told me to go run it.
So in following instructions from builder, that is what I intend to do.
He wants me to also use a vaccume gauge to set the carbs up so Im going to do as im told from HIM
(he is warranting these things so I have little choice)
but yeah I wanna keep going out and stop having these little **** problems
Thanks guys
Jason

"He wants me to also use a vaccume gauge to set the carbs up".....F#$$ him....you burn a valve and or melt down a cylinder and it will all be on YOU....it's HIS WAY OUT if something goes a miss....

if this guy didn't dial in your cam how can he say that the signal falls into your carbs parameters???? HE CAN'T!

Jay I am regretably having to side with Audacity on this one bro!!! (no offense to you audacity just see this taking a nasty turn as well. :() Anyhow the first BAD thing to happen is the coil bind issue that you had. The guy was more interested in getting his new bike then helping out the customer that just dropped some serious money with him. So he put his lackey on it to fix the thing. Is this the same motor that had the problem? Second he did not tell you to get your carb modified. You WILL NOT be able to run your sock 330 carbs set up with just a change in your idle jet. NO WAY NO HOW. Q-jets are great carbs but have to be set up specifically to your engine or you will have problems. My guess is you are VERY lean. Lean is bad!!! Like Audacity said reading plugs is very hard to do accuratly with the new fuels. Now the guy is more interested in sending you down the road with some stuff and letting you make all the adjustments. That is BOGUS bro. I would get some **** in writing and fast from this guy that he is not going to send you up the river when something blows. I had this same problem as you do with my engine and through all the testing the thing blew up.

Jon