I edited above to be more clear.

Mike Tkack, Mild Thunder, his other friends , family - Very sorry ! Hold on to the good memories you made with him - I'm sure that's what he would want !

My name is Scott Foxwell. I am originally form the central coast of CA (Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties). I started Foxwell Motorsports in 2003 when I decided to give the performance cylinder head and engine building thing a go. I was a general contractor at the time (why the references to dry wall) and was doing this on the side in my garage. I had a drag boat (how I met Chris Straub) and sold it to buy my first equipment...a VGS seat and guide machine and Sioux valve facer. I worked for Dart in 1990 and was fortunate to work with Rich Maskin as he was developing his Pro Stock program, I was there when he was doing engines for Mark Powuk and the Summit Racing Pro Stock team. When I moved back to CA I went to work for Alan Johnson for a little over four years and gained a great deal of knowledge and experience there, again, very fortunately. I've been involved in all sorts of racing from boat drags, car drags, oval track, road racing and land sped racing. I was the lead fabricator on two Bonneville cars both of which hold multiple 300+ mph records. For a while I was doing more fabrication than I was engine work but my passion lies in the power. Now I work with Chris Straub at Straub Technologies doing induction development and special project engine building. I served my country during peace time as a crewchief on Blackhawk helicopters from 1981-1983 and graduated distinguished grad from the US Army Tech school out of about 300 students. I attended Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univ. working toward my A&P license but never completed that. My father was a very successful mechanical engineer, racer, car guy and pilot. I was born 9/8/1958.

Joe Sorry to hear about your friend, you are correct about what is really important in the big picture. We are all very fortunate to be able to enjoy this power boating hobby, and sometimes get a little to cocky and forget the most important things in life, Family and Friends. once again sorry for your loss!

You didn't stay out of this thread...you had to put your half a cent worth in and you just couldn't help yourself.
That's a lot of pretty heavy accusations you're making there, all from well in the past. Regardless of how childishly inaccurate it is; you want to sling mud, don't expect to not get any in your face. You had your hands in a great deal of all that mess, right up to the elbows. You don't take a back seat to anyone when it comes to slanderous and libelous comments, being foul mouthed and just plain having a really crappy attitude. You wrote the book on putting people down who disagree with you (or you disagree with) and you've probably carried a grudge like a little boy for longer than anyone i know. Here, is a perfect example.
You go ahead and live in the past and carry all that hate. Life is too short for me to. That stuff causes cancer. I told you before, water under the bridge for me.

And I apologize to the rest of the readers for this...really been trying to stay on topic but some comments just need addressing when the antagonism is obviously not going to stop.

Here's your answer mike:

The little searay is In Arizona now.

You may wonder why someone would drive 2500 miles one way and then back to buy an 18' searay. One could buy one of the thousands in any state.

It's because the boat was meticulously rebuilt/restored. Really a nicely restored little boat.

Carry on with your tantrum.

I've followed drag racing for a long time, you've had the opportunity to work with some heavy hitters in the field, back in the day I was fortunate to hang around with a couple of the guys from Reher & Morrison, if memory serves me well Mike Head was one of their top cylinder head guys and flow bench experts. Such a tragedy when Lee Shepherd got killed, WJ was one of my fav's, don't really care for the Summit boy's of today, but I understand that Jason Line is a pretty sharp cookie in his own right.........any way enough rambling, welcome aboard, welcome back,

Just like I thought
He is clearly not qualified to be on this site helping people out with pump gas hydraulic roller cammed 540s. Let alone what heads might work on that combo.


What the hell is wrong with this site.

yes it is me that is on a tantrum.lol.dude,you really are clueless! 18 foot sea ray is quite the offshore boat.how many years did it take for you to complete such a large project.

I have to amend some of the numbers above. It was a little hectic yesterday and I unfortunately transposed a few numbers and I want to make the correction clear to everyone;
The valve area on the 305 heads is not 3.79 sq in. It is somewhere in the neighborhood of 3.05 sq in. Which is plenty for our 540 turning 6000 rpm. When we jump to 7000 rpm...and i should have caught this...the cross section still remains usable but the valve area demand increases significantly. I was mistaken when I said the valve area of the 305 was still adequate. My apologies to all.