Re: New to me Skater.
 

Anyone have 16.5 x36 5 balde?

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Ok we need to run a second idler on the crossover.
This will take up the slack on the long belt. (2000mm)
I see others that dont run them However, I was instructed
to do it.


Start with 3/4 inch alum. plate.
Get one inch dowel and tell them ya want to run a 3/8
inch hole down the center.
Chop the pipe into three inch pieces and they will be the stand
offs.

Re: New to me Skater.
 

Use the crossover as a template and drill 4 holes in the plate.
Get some grade 8 bolts and measure where the pulley's gonna
go.

I use a vice grip to hold it in place. to make sure it will actualy
work.

Re: New to me Skater.
 

Heres what it looks like after buffing it up.

The carbs with the -8 bowl feeds and the .150
Needle and seats.


Gotta love the Parker Blue hose. What nice stuff compared
to the Braded stainless lines.

Re: New to me Skater.
 

Here is the PSI adapter plate. It takes the Wedge shaped discharge and converts it to the rectangular opening.


Notice the discoloration of the intercooler this is from the old blowers. You can see it was getting hot.
Atleast the curanickel has a higher melting point then alum.
This is what Roger at PSI was warning me about with melting
cores. Gotta keep the bowls full of fuel.
Where the fuelpresure sending unit is reading it can easily
miss read actual fuel pressure after the needle and seat.

Re: New to me Skater.
 

hay gerry looking good and the parker line is a heck of alot easer to work with keep up the good work and the posting

Re: New to me Skater.
 

Those chillers get filled with sea weed. Pull that front cap that says superchiller and bam packed with the weed. Passes the stariners.

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I love this stuff! Great job. Were do you get the blue hose? I agree, braided hose is a pain in the ass!

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Parker Hanifin I Think Go On Line

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Man what a project. I wish I had the know how to be able to some of that stuff. Just git chills reading all the post then get to see the roosters comming from the back.
The question of the day is the wife? Is she happy you spent near a half of a year doing this with the outcome of the project? If not she is nuts if so congrats what a thread. Be safe and go like hell
Satisfied1

Re: New to me Skater.
 

Jegs has it 800-345-4545
I like better then the Aero Blue!

Re: New to me Skater.
 

Oh the first ride did her in.
Are you kidding I went from a 32 Vhull to this beast.
Around 80 in the V she was Starting to Wig OUT!
Never mine over a 100.

The big Speedo is right in front of her
Noggin, at a buck shes just sitting there smerking.

As I look at her
I cant help but Thinking "Whos Your DADDY NOW!!!!":D

Re: New to me Skater.
 

Yo G, your shizzle is on its way. Coming from 3 different Merc plants.

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Yes! You da man!

Hey no X-mass card from ya this year?
Ya must used up all the free cake on the new pad.

Herring should have the Skegs back end of the month!

Get ready for some drinking!:drink:

Re: New to me Skater.
 

KNOT RIGHT
Do you recognize these pics?Pity the previous owner wasn't as nice as his boat.
I traveled all the way to Canada 1000 islands poker run to see his boat but the snob wouldn't even give me the time of day!!!

Re: New to me Skater.
 

I wish the boat came with those turbines.

Have you figured the correct drive height for your project?
I would say Rik at Arneson is the guy to call!

Any more pictures of the original MYWAY?

Re: New to me Skater.
 

Yep spoke to Rik he has pointed me in the right direction.
Sorry they the only pics I had I found them on the web a couple of years ago while looking for turbine stuff.

Great looking boat keep up the good work

Jason

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While I got these out.

I will set the Solid lash at .022 cold.

Re: New to me Skater.
 

I decided to brighten up the Engines now
that we are sporting the PSI,s.

I redid the Valve covers last night and the Flame Arestors.

It only required a six pack of Corona.:D


Starting to look like Engines again.


Next the Windscreen, Boat graphics.

Re: New to me Skater.
 

Looks great. What are your ideas on the graphics?

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Im all over the place on this.

First I liked the silver, Blue maybe some red.
Then I find Im back to the yellows and reds.

Im thinking something inbetween Surperman and
what I got now:D

I need ideas.

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Is that T&D or Jesel ? Having had 1 problem with my set up
but time to up grade.That looks easier to run through the valves compare to the stud girdles.

Paint job looks great,even after a six pack! :drink:
I do my best work with a buzz. :D

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You can't go by Gerry's colors, cause he likes trannys!! NOT!!!
Call me Monday jackl.

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There TD. The reason there different color is I
sent them back to TD to have them rebuilt and they
sent back silver ones.

Shaft rockers are the best. Jessel or TD you cant loose!
The pushrods are over 11 inches long.
Thats actualy a drawback when using Big Chiefs.
Side Loading bigtime on the lifters.

Re: New to me Skater.
 

Any beer left?

Hey the drawing in your avitar kinda reminds me of my x-wife.:eek:

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Wow big chiefs, I thought you guys with big blower motors ran diff heads. We ran those in our open boat, nothing but trouble, but we turned them 9k.

If you could get ahold of some sterling stuff, he moves the lifters so they are straight, major block work.

CM

Re: New to me Skater.
 

9000...... Yes!

My cam is on the small side. My intensions were to go
45 hours on the valve train.
6700 is where my rev limiters are set.
23 hours on the motors last season.
Just tore them down and they looked good.
If ya want to make real power ya gotta run the chiefs.
CFE is the real ticket. ( Carl Foltz)

I would love to tear down a sterling.
Curtis you must have had some serious bottom ends.

Re: New to me Skater.
 

We were runnning 13.5:1 compression, love the smell of race gas. They produced about 950hp, on 500 ci.

Used the splayed capped blocks, after we went to those we had no problem with the lowers. Before that we cracked cranks almost every race.

These motors had to be rebuilt after every race, it was a pain.
crash box, with efi. They sounded bad ass.

CM

Re: New to me Skater.
 

folts does sterlings heads

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Gerry, me and rest of Sutphen crew are coming to drink all your beer and spin donuts w/ all your cars on your lot.

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LOL

The beer is full of fridge and half the cars dont run.

So Come on Down! Biotch!:evilb:

Ok lets wipe the dust off this thread.





Please allow us to show you Skater lovers
How we Hacks up here in Rhode Island
Paint a big tub!



First rent a really cheap warehouse.
Then look for a Airbrush Artist.
This ones name is Steve Smith and just so happens to
be on page 4 of the Outerlimits Catalog.

Steve is now on his own and kicking some serious
Paintjobs.

If I may introduce Steve of "Extreme Graphics Operation".
Or EGO Graphics................

Some ideas that we discussed.

Notice the amount of masking. This is done with
transfer tape. Yes the same stuff Taod uses as well
as Mitcher T.



alot of the reverse graphics you see on these
Big dollar paintjobs are produced with vinyl plotters
off the computer. Its a big sticker thats printed using the computer. Most of these artists used to do these by hand
some still do both like this guy Steve!

Now what color do ya use?


I still like the Bright yelos, reds, Purples that I used to spray
my Hustler. So Steve said will use the Dupont colors like the
Spectromaster yelo and the spectra red as the bases.
Then will add the House of color
pearls such as Sunrise pearl,Tangelo pearl, Combined with some prissimion red, And some True blue pearl.


As you can see there is no clear and this stuff is simply amazing.

Wow!

What I like about this Dude. "He is from the School of spend the least and get the most".



Notice the White lines highlighting the graphics.
No.... not the stuff all you high rollers snort!:D

Its 1/4 inch fine line. Next time ya pick up a Extreme boat magazine notice all the heavy hitters love to use this stuff.
The nice thing is it actually makes the edges easier.

That paint is sick!! Great thread! Keep it coming :D :D

Here is some from a few feet back.


Some of my buds up here saw this boat and have already got in line for the next paintjobs.

Call The heavy painters up and ask for a quote then give This guy a call.

You wont be dissapointed!

Notice his choice of colors in his Drop shadows.



Here is the deck coming to life!


Check out his fades.

I have to say I have been painting since I was 19 years old.
But when a real artist comes along it really is wild to see them go.



I had to take my sneakers off to get up on the deck to take these pictures and The thought of my smelly socks crossed
my mind. Then I realized he most likley wouldnt smell it over the paint fumes............I think:rolleyes: