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Old 05-27-2019 | 07:45 PM
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Quick video I took of both motors idling with the silent choice "on" to keep things quiet. Note the water churning behind the port motor.
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Old 05-27-2019 | 07:47 PM
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Carb is a 800cfm Holley. Holley lists this carb as having 71 primary and 85 secondary.
That's what I was looking for, you did your due diligence.
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Old 05-27-2019 | 08:08 PM
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Head gasket

or burned a valve
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Old 05-27-2019 | 08:30 PM
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Just looking at the plugs are they the same heatvrange? They almost look different in picture
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Old 05-27-2019 | 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Rookie
That's what I was looking for, you did your due diligence.
I try and do as much research as possible before making changes. In a previous thread, comments were made that the motors were likely extremely rich with my previous jetting. Constantly checking the plugs last season, it confirmed most peoples thoughts. Having not wanting to change anything last season in regards to jetting, I waited until winter "break" to look into it further.

Based on the Holley factory jetting, HP500 jetting, and a lot of other peoples' builds (502s, HP500s, 540s, etc) lead me to jet down to the 79 primary and 89 secondary. Again, today was more of a test and tune anyway, and was just a first season check and I was not hard on the boat.

I monitored all gauges throughout running the boat and nothing was out of whack.
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Old 05-27-2019 | 11:09 PM
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Just looking at the plugs are they the same heatvrange? They almost look different in picture
All plugs are the same and what come recommended for the DART heads. Plugs were gapped 0.040, which was the same as the plugs that were in it before. Same model and everything, just new.
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Old 05-28-2019 | 01:11 AM
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Port eng plugs appear to be steam cleaned. Looks like water is getting in from somewhere. Have you cranked it over with plugs out to see if water shoots out any of the holes? Need compression test results.
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Old 05-28-2019 | 01:23 PM
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I believe you have a bad head gasket or leaking header/exhaust manifold.
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Old 05-29-2019 | 08:16 PM
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what autolite spark plug numbers are you using?
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Old 05-29-2019 | 08:34 PM
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what autolite spark plug numbers are you using?
Autolite AR3933

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