rebuilding my 33
10-01-2015 | 12:09 AM
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rebuilding my 33
I bought the 91 on c/l and finally have had the time to work on it....http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/p...e-waves-2.html ........I replaced the trailer tires (from 1995) and the goofy front bow stop set up and changed the wiring and lights on it.......The engine are gen 5 502's with 37 and 42 hours on them from 1993 according to the rod bearings that came out and looked barely used.. The intakes had rotted out in storage but there was clean oil ( with an extra qt. of kendall I found) and no water in the motors and the heads look good and reusable also... got very lucky for once....My plan is to make these engines HP500 clones with new parts and stainless marine exhaust ...( still need a set of sm manifolds , no tails) Other than some surface rust and debris from the intake rotting .....there real clean inside.. but I'm going to have them gone through and rebuilt for piece of mind and add some hp also... I am using Thunder boat and Design North Ft Myers ,Fl 239-633-8228 for all the work....awesome shop!! But It will will take a little while because I have to get up the funds for all of this.... Here are some pics of it so far and I will add more as it moves along....Hopefully a pic on the dyno producing more than 500 hp!!! jay
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11-23-2015 | 08:46 PM
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Thanks for asking, just collecting parts right now.... still need some stainless marine manifolds and clamps... got the intakes from welfare racing..and the valve covers from Ron Sporl per.. great deals and good guys from OSO... i need to fit the exhaust and platform.... and most of all I need to find a big, bag of money to speed up the process!!!! ...If some one is really interested in buying it .. I would consider selling it.. because I have to many projects going
03-09-2016 | 05:01 PM
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The boat has 4 blade bravo 26's on it now with the 415 hp 502's... The engines are coming along and will most likely have about 500 -530 hp when done.. my question is , Do I need to look for 28 or 30 pitch bravo 4 blades or something else for props??
03-09-2016 | 05:17 PM
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JROMY's 525 boat was spinning 30s and topped out around 90.
