Playboy getting Head
 

Had the pickup tube in the oil pan loosen up so I had to pull the engines out of the Bunny Lounge. So I decided to add some upgrades while they are out. Including some New Heads, Through Honed Extruded Intakes, CAM. I was running about 570 HP, before out of the 500EFI's. Just wanted everything to be freshened up and know where everything was at. Only draw back is that I wish I knew the situation in the Fall versus the Spring, but seems like it will work out. Looking forward to some other updates while in the process too.

Figured I would share some of the build since I am working with some of the OSO members.

Pulled the engines out at my buddy's Jason Shop. I unbolted everything and he was nice enough to use his Telehandler to pull them out. Loaded them up in the Dually!

I ordered a set of Big Al's Promax 317 Heads for the build about a month ago, he is waiting for castings, but assures me that I am first on list once the castings make it to the shop. According to him, he is expecting a shipment soon...like next week. I will provide some pictures when I get them from him as he does his completion of the heads. I decided that the best upgrade is to ditch the GM heads. I will share the Flow Numbers for others once I get them finished from AL.

I am also working on CAM selection....which is always a Hot Topic....lol . Eddie Young,will be doing the Final Tuning on the engines when I bring them down to Tenn. He is selecting the custom CAMs and I am going with Johnson lifters to work with the CAM Profile. Should be pretty Sweet. However as you guys know with any of these projects. The Rabbit Hole gets bigger and bigger.......But that's boating.

Jay Baker in Upstate NY is doing the assembly. Top Notch and great to work with. All working together to get a final product and hopefully meet the final goals.

I had a bunch of $$ offers for the boat in the past year, 35TS are still popular and the Playboy version is just on the cool side especially the Black and White original. But since my wife and I love the boat, it runs in the mid 80's mph and I purchased a new trailer, we decided to keep it. Now we are going to upgrade it a little more. I can't seem to leave things alone. lol

Looking forward to seeing and hearing the motors at the Battleship Run.

Padraig

Al from AK Racing Performance has been great to work with. Always there to answer questions. He has been in contact with my builder. We just finished up and got on the same page of what we are looking at for installed height and seat pressures for my application. Al also told me that he personally contacted the castings distributor to try speed up delivery of the heads so he can get the ready to bolt on complete heads done. I have everything else ordered and machine work is being done now. At least I know with Al's heads, and now that he has the final specs, they will be ready to TRULY bolt on and be ready to go and make power/flow. That is piece of mind when buying heads.

Final Chamber size from Al is 121cc
Install Height 1.900"
140-150 lbs of seat pressure
400-420 lbs open pressure

Matched for the CAM and Johnson Lifters

this is going to be a great build... once done I'm sure it will be a real head turner!!! NO PHUN INTENDED!! :Score-101010:

Good choice on the Johnson lifters... I like and use these without issue

Love it! love that boat too!!