Restoring an old Velocity 22 Race Boat
Yesterday | 06:10 AM
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Been a monsoon on majority of the country for MDW. Gave me some time to tie up some loose ends. Been fighting an intermittent vapor lock issue. Seem to have traced it to a few things but one of which is heat inside the hatch. Seems to go away if I pop the hatch for even 10-15 min when parked, gets HOT in there. Also running blower helps a ton.
Added the factory mercury "anti vapor lock" fuel pusher/lift pump into the cool fuel circuit 862264A7. Seems to have really helped with hot restarts. Located some ORB fittings to AN conversion to get to a 3/8" push lock and routed it nicely as possible. Got a chance to run the boat and was touching 67-68mph for a second with some really churned up rough water. I think boat could use a 24p hydromotive quad 4. I lost water flow out of the drive dump so cut my day a bit shorter than expected, but I suppose we will get the Alpha SS lower dropped this week and add a new impeller to the mix to return our flow.
Finally got that god awful bow light off. Had some Spectrum Brushable color match fountain white gel coat. Matched the top deck nicely and was able to get that filled in decently. The boat sits super cool in the water with the weight on the back and really has a tough look tied up.
Got the radio working again with a cheap single din Pyle unit. Sounds great with the JL Speakers. Unfortunately this thing has more previous owners and stories than I can probably imagine and therefore alot of dash holes. I chose the easy button with 3D printing a carbon fiber face plate and I will fill the dash holes not used with either 4200 or brushable gel coat. Leaning towards 4200. Will try and get that mounted up this week or weekend. Velocity offered a cool key chain and dash phone holder for a really attractive price so snagged those this week.
The Alpha SS was never designed to be run with an EFI 454 engine as obviously merging two different decades of parts. Currently have the carb style interupt shifter plate with a coil wire cut. The efi can get a little finicky if you aren't really fast changing gears and occasional stall near a dock. I have located a 5.0 mpi shifter alpha plate with the later style efi interupt switch and harness which I believe will pull timing, not cut spark. More to come on that front but that is out for delivery from the Ebay store. Should be able to figure that out fairly easily.
Starting to get pulled in other directions on other floating projects, work, and life.
Likely the boat will be going for sale in the next 30-60 days unfortunately as I am beyond out of storage space.
Added the factory mercury "anti vapor lock" fuel pusher/lift pump into the cool fuel circuit 862264A7. Seems to have really helped with hot restarts. Located some ORB fittings to AN conversion to get to a 3/8" push lock and routed it nicely as possible. Got a chance to run the boat and was touching 67-68mph for a second with some really churned up rough water. I think boat could use a 24p hydromotive quad 4. I lost water flow out of the drive dump so cut my day a bit shorter than expected, but I suppose we will get the Alpha SS lower dropped this week and add a new impeller to the mix to return our flow.
Finally got that god awful bow light off. Had some Spectrum Brushable color match fountain white gel coat. Matched the top deck nicely and was able to get that filled in decently. The boat sits super cool in the water with the weight on the back and really has a tough look tied up.
Got the radio working again with a cheap single din Pyle unit. Sounds great with the JL Speakers. Unfortunately this thing has more previous owners and stories than I can probably imagine and therefore alot of dash holes. I chose the easy button with 3D printing a carbon fiber face plate and I will fill the dash holes not used with either 4200 or brushable gel coat. Leaning towards 4200. Will try and get that mounted up this week or weekend. Velocity offered a cool key chain and dash phone holder for a really attractive price so snagged those this week.
The Alpha SS was never designed to be run with an EFI 454 engine as obviously merging two different decades of parts. Currently have the carb style interupt shifter plate with a coil wire cut. The efi can get a little finicky if you aren't really fast changing gears and occasional stall near a dock. I have located a 5.0 mpi shifter alpha plate with the later style efi interupt switch and harness which I believe will pull timing, not cut spark. More to come on that front but that is out for delivery from the Ebay store. Should be able to figure that out fairly easily.
Starting to get pulled in other directions on other floating projects, work, and life.
Likely the boat will be going for sale in the next 30-60 days unfortunately as I am beyond out of storage space.
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