I do plan to run an air bleed setup off the strainer to bleed excess air, but was thinking of running an 15-18 psi valve. Do you have experience with running this type of setup? If you have, can you tell the pros and cons of this?

Per your request? Some are older pics and not relevant anymore but I don't have any new ones so deal with it! :angry-smiley-038:

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This is the last you will see of these gear breaking Bravo's! Now that Arneson's are going on! I can't wait until it's all together to see what it is going to be like. I don't know of another BT out there with Arneson's on it, as far as I know this is the first one.

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I have not used an air bleed but did use a Keith Eickert pressure relief valve. I was able to dump enough water to keep the pressure at 18 psi at over 115 mph.

Thanks for the info. Where did you place the pressure relief valve?

So... I got the transmissions torn down. Pretty much what I expected them to be. I purchased these transmissions as cores so all in all they are in ok shape. They seemed to of either sat outside or ingested water at one point. There's a lot of rust inside, no biggie. Tear down is always the easy part. Now for the clean, inspect, do a little machine work and re-clean part of the process. As for the mods I would like to do I am still in the preliminary stages of this. Right off the bat there are a couple things that I didn't care for.

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I have seen quite a few run off the back side of the intake manifold. Supposed to help with steam pockets and provide some extra flow to those cylinders that tend to suffer from lack of water movement.

Well.... I got a lot of work done this weekend on the drives and strainers. I cut the tube to 18 inches for strainers, now just have to mock it up in the boat to see if it's taller than I want and layout where all the fittings will be welded. I will post some pics next week when I get back from a business trip.

love these threads, that things gonna fly, im glad you went to bigger blowers with dual carbs, I always feel as single carbs on big ci engine seem to hold back power.

Thanks. The single carb deal was just temporary to get me back on the water. The new motors will be fuel injected running 8, 93 lbs injectors with dual 4150 style throttle bodies.