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I was waiting on that one..

All I have is a couple shots off the phone.. That 1st. one always makes me a bit unnerved.. You can see it has a nice amount of working room in front of the engine..

I have allot of nipping, tucking & tidying to do but it will eventually get there..

That's what I'm talking about....nice! I guess the tanks will be the last things to go in?

Thanks ! Yeah I would like to drop the tanks last, or real close to that for the obvious reason of extra room.. However I may have to set them in earlier than I want for location on a couple items.. I have it set up where you will still be able to get all the way around the motor pretty good..

Better take your shoes off when your in that bilge Mister:drink:

I have no doubt you say that with experience !! How are things going with your ride bro. ?

yep it does my pulleys came into day with nicks on them:eek: so know I have to decide to keep them if I get money off or send them back and lose more time and shipping.:lolhit:

Glad to hear your getting closer as well !! I understand the shipping issues & hope it works out for you..

looking great! Keep em comin.

Managed to get the Sea Strainer, Oil Cooler and both pumps for the k-planes mounted up today.. ;)

looking good Scott!!! Love your new profile picture!

Thanks guys..

I plan on getting the trim pump for the drive mounted up tonight along with both of the batteries.. I can also start getting some ballpark measurments for my all my oil lines as well.. I now have enuff to do to keep me busy for a little while.. I'm doing as much of the rigging as possible at the house so there's a little bit of a trade off with time & occasional tool hauling, but its worth it to be at home with the family v/s spending every waking moment here at the shop.. It also puts the "grass roots" back in "grass roots" and I gotta say it feels great to be back at it on something of my own for a change !!

Got the drive pump installed along with the lines routed & plumbed in.. Also got both battery hold downs along with the batteries locked in place..

I have a good bit of wire sorting to do b/c for some reason I have twice the amount of wires I need...:grinser010:

Despite being captivated by the loto shootout this weekend, I"ve been able to spend a decent amount of time having some fun on the boat lately.. I now have all of the hydraulic steering system finished up.. I ended up replacing all the fittings on the existing helm due to the fact I changed out all the lines with some I had that I liked alittle better than what was in the boat.. It took some time to sort out all the fittings, cooler, filter , routing ect...ect.. Also will have all the lines nicely routed & tucked away.. Also got the throttles out, unstacked, re-stacked & ready to rock on in single mode.. I'm finishing up the fab work on a throttle plate now.. Last night I got all of my measurements for my water lines and also got all my oil line measurements & fittings I need sorted out..

Also managed to get 1600 gph worth of bilge pumps all gone through & mounted up which would have been allot easier before the engine was put in place, however so much of this stuff I really couldn't b/c I don't want to have issues such as having to take crap out of the way for regular maintenance, ect.. Here you go of all things anybody would want to see you get pics of some bilge pumps... Now that's some hot rodding baby !! Bilge pumps.. & No the zip ties aren't the only thing holding them together..;)

Btw: That's Jdubs jeep in the back ground I'm doing a "overhauling" on so please nobody tell him..

Looks good friday I cut out a section 1 x 15'' for blower pulleys, wish I just cut out the gas tank over last winter and put it under the rear seat I could have picked up 8'' in front and went from 90gals to 130 gals with a stepped tank I drew up, oh well should be glassed up by and pulleys on next week.

are you using an fittings on the water lines ,also what lines ss push lock? Iwas thinking only cause I will be in salt water to use push lock with ss or brass fittings and ss lines with an on fuel and oil lines.

The water lines will all be slip on hose with 1"npt to 1 1/4 barbed ends on the fittings.. All the oil lines will be -12 braided stainless with AN fittings.. Fuel lines will either be braided or push loc style with AN fittings as well.. Fuel sytem plumbing will most likely be towards the end of the project for me..

Finished up the "throttle/shifter plate" & he's a quick mock up shot I took earlier.. I would have went ahead & finished the install yesterday, but long story short I had to move the boat for a few days to have some work done here at home..

I also started hacking into my intercooler today for a few reasons.. One reason being best put in southern slang "that I can't leave well enough alone" Another being the fact that I have never completely liked the design being that they used the same cooler for the MPI engines as the carbed version so what they did was put a cheezy block off plate over the outlet of the cooler (inlet of MPI throttle body) Then cut a 3.5" hole in the end of it shove a piece of tubing a good 1/2-3/4" to far in to the hole & weld it up... Anyways as you can see by the photos as I was cutting that it was a pretty in-efficient design.. So leave it up to a redneck with some tools, experience using them and an imagination that won't quit and wallah !! I'm working on the plate to be welded to the side of it now.. This is the kind of work I love !! I also have to fab up some stringer brackets since it will be remote mounted instead of right in front & basically on top of the engine well in the way of allot of stuff that I didn't want it in the way of... ;)

Here's a few "in process" shots after I made the first cut to give a better idea of what I'm talking about..

A few more after some more cutting, grinding & the first round of port work..

Be careful not to break both arms pattin' yerself on da back!! LOL

GETTIN' - ER- DUNN

Mr D - Mr D to what honor do I owe thee ?

You know I tried patting myself on the back once but then realized my arms are to short so..

Scott - GOT THEM - THEY ARE AWESOME THANK YOU!!!
"sabers rock!"

Hey Bro, Glad to do them for you & most importantly I'm glad you were pleased !!!

Got the intercooler back over the weekend so things are still rolling along as time & resources permit.. Also should have all my oil & water lines sealed up sometime in the near future..

I still have a fair amount of polishing up to do on the cooler & didn't really touch the boat over the weekend as I decided to take a break & spend a couple days to just hang with the family..

If all goes as planned I'm gonna attempt to get a bit of work done throughout the evenings this week so we'll see how that goes..

Managed to get the intercooler locked in its location only to take right back out in an attempt to get going on the polishing work tomorrow at the shop.. Also getting ready to set the drive on the back pretty soon.. Doing most of the rigging at home has definitely made things a bit more challenging from time to time, but its been worth it !!

No work tomorrow night, it's date night at the TN theater.. :musik010:

Inching along.. It was nice to finally get the tailpipes aiming where they need to.. Then it was even nicer to realize how glad I am that I'm not sniffing ground up bi-ax every time I crawl in here !! ;)

your exhaust cut outs are high like mine, I need to cut off some of the other circle of the ring so it sits flat. I went with 5'' od tails so the rings are 6 1/2 to 7''.

Yeah I figured yours would be pretty high as well.. About 1/3 of my tails were aiming at the rubrail untill I got the tailpipe wedges.. Not real sure what I will end up with for mufflers/no mufflers ect.. ect.. but my cutouts now are just 4 1/4" I have a set of 4 rings, but since the tails exit right at the transom I'm not in a huge hurry to finalize that part yet b/c it will not halt any progress... So that part will happen when it happens...

I my rings and gaskets were 150 shipped. I think there SM and I am going to bend just a little of the top tip of the ring, gas tank done will get it by mid week so if no rain motor comes back out saturday and will start on removing old tank. got pics coming later art