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Thanks AJ. Your boat looks great. What a great color scheme.
The intercoolers are the MOAC Cupernickel. Gary at GT Performance took the intercooler off yesterday and it is melted. Has to have been a Plenum Fire to melt these. They did find one spark plug wire partially broke and melted. It is possible that maybe this created a spark back up through the distributor and caused a misfire in one cyclinder while the Intake Valve was open. Seems like that would be hard to do.
They are searching for what the cause might have been.
let you know if and whenthey find the cause.
The intercoolers are the MOAC Cupernickel. Gary at GT Performance took the intercooler off yesterday and it is melted. Has to have been a Plenum Fire to melt these. They did find one spark plug wire partially broke and melted. It is possible that maybe this created a spark back up through the distributor and caused a misfire in one cyclinder while the Intake Valve was open. Seems like that would be hard to do.
They are searching for what the cause might have been.
let you know if and whenthey find the cause.
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No special Strainer as of now. The water for the intercooler is plumbed through the main straner for the engine.
I don't think this is the problem If the water or anything got that hot (enough to melt Cupernickel) then there would be many more pieces melted.
I don't think this is the problem If the water or anything got that hot (enough to melt Cupernickel) then there would be many more pieces melted.
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Get live temp gauages on the dash, and locate the probes underneath the core and you will see what type of temps you are getting. Do you melt them at idle or underway?
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Hey sounds like you guys all had a great time. First time in a couple years that I've missed it.
Gator: Too bad about the blower issues. I saw some pics and the new boat is amazing. What's the top speed so far?
Bripar: Sorry to hear about the intercooler issue. I've seen a whipple intercooler come off of a quad rotor motor before that was a little melted (not bad though) and I think that was caused by the motor backfiring through the blower. Sounds like maybe you also have a timing issue like you said. If its an EFI quad rotor, could be some sort of glitch in the fuel injection computer too. I'm sure you'll get it all sorted out and it'll be running hard in no time. Congrats on the boat, looks like fun.
40: Sounds like your boat ran trouble free all weekend? I followed your buildup over on the HB forums so I'm glad to see that its running well after all the work you put into it...congrats.
-Tom
Gator: Too bad about the blower issues. I saw some pics and the new boat is amazing. What's the top speed so far?
Bripar: Sorry to hear about the intercooler issue. I've seen a whipple intercooler come off of a quad rotor motor before that was a little melted (not bad though) and I think that was caused by the motor backfiring through the blower. Sounds like maybe you also have a timing issue like you said. If its an EFI quad rotor, could be some sort of glitch in the fuel injection computer too. I'm sure you'll get it all sorted out and it'll be running hard in no time. Congrats on the boat, looks like fun.
40: Sounds like your boat ran trouble free all weekend? I followed your buildup over on the HB forums so I'm glad to see that its running well after all the work you put into it...congrats.
-Tom
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Hey sounds like you guys all had a great time. First time in a couple years that I've missed it.
Gator: Too bad about the blower issues. I saw some pics and the new boat is amazing. What's the top speed so far?
Bripar: Sorry to hear about the intercooler issue. I've seen a whipple intercooler come off of a quad rotor motor before that was a little melted (not bad though) and I think that was caused by the motor backfiring through the blower. Sounds like maybe you also have a timing issue like you said. If its an EFI quad rotor, could be some sort of glitch in the fuel injection computer too. I'm sure you'll get it all sorted out and it'll be running hard in no time. Congrats on the boat, looks like fun.
40: Sounds like your boat ran trouble free all weekend? I followed your buildup over on the HB forums so I'm glad to see that its running well after all the work you put into it...congrats.
-Tom
Gator: Too bad about the blower issues. I saw some pics and the new boat is amazing. What's the top speed so far?
Bripar: Sorry to hear about the intercooler issue. I've seen a whipple intercooler come off of a quad rotor motor before that was a little melted (not bad though) and I think that was caused by the motor backfiring through the blower. Sounds like maybe you also have a timing issue like you said. If its an EFI quad rotor, could be some sort of glitch in the fuel injection computer too. I'm sure you'll get it all sorted out and it'll be running hard in no time. Congrats on the boat, looks like fun.
40: Sounds like your boat ran trouble free all weekend? I followed your buildup over on the HB forums so I'm glad to see that its running well after all the work you put into it...congrats.
-Tom
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Yea AJ I expected that you would comment, seems how the GPS tattle tale still shows exactly 160 MPH from when you had it. . I just need a little time to find out the limits of the boat expecially in roughed up water. I had at least 800 RPM left and it was building speed still but ran out of room. Also I want the thing to last a full weekend which as of now with this intercooler issue hasn't happened yet. How fast has your 40Gone so far? Did you build Quad Whipple Motors or just large single Whipples?
Will you be at Lake Cumberland this year for the Poker Run?
Will you be at Lake Cumberland this year for the Poker Run?
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