C-69 gettin' Kaliforniafide.

[Dude! Sweet!]

OK, so Chris and Tom have shamed me into working on the 28. I figured I'd start a thread about it that can track my progress or lack thereof...

I'll try to post pics and updates as I get the opportunity.

So to kick it off... Chris and I swapped boats less motors and drives. I think many of you know that I wanged my motor on St. Paddy's day. I had a rocker stud come out and the rocker (intake) and stud bounce around in the motor for about 40 minutes at about 5,000 RPMS.

Pulled the motor apart today. The lifter looks like a bomb went off inside it. It's shattered and wedged in the block. Fortunately these Merlin blocks have sleeved lifter bores, so it's fixable one way or another. The cam is pretty chewed up. And the cylender that the rocker came off of looks like it got some reversion (how that happens with dry pipes is beyond me) but I think a hone should take care of it.

Anyhow, the motor is down to the short block, the heads are in my truck.

Feeling like I'm going backwards at this point (but knowing I'm not) I decided to put my drive back together. All good there and ready when the motor is.

John helped me out with the motor (its at his shop up in the Valley) so I'll try to get him to snap me some photos and send them over tomorrow.

That's all for now... Over and out.

 

[duunoit]

subscribed...

 

[stormrider]

What, still no Pfaff this time around?

 

[TIKI]

So; which 28 is yours now? Pic please. I know you had Griff's old 28, but Chris has it now?

 

[Perlmudder]

John helped me out with the motor (its at his shop up in the Valley) so I'll try to get him to snap me some photos and send them over tomorrow.

That's all for now... Over and out.

Entourage has taught he the "valley" is a scary place...:sifone:

 

[duunoit]

So; which 28 is yours now? Pic please. I know you had Griff's old 28, but Chris has it now?

This is what it used to look like...

 

[Dude! Sweet!]

And this is what it looks like currently.

 

[Dude! Sweet!]

Entourage has taught he the "valley" is a scary place...:sifone:

Never watched the show, but you can learn a lot in the Valley... :sifone:

 

[Perlmudder]

Never watched the show, but you can learn a lot in the Valley... :sifone:

you need to. its amazing!

 

[Perlmudder]

And this is what it looks like currently.

so i noticed one has a notched transom, one does not. which one performed better?

 

[Dude! Sweet!]

The Swedes would know... I'd guess all other things equal, in a race boat, notch is the way to go. Pleasure boat depends...

 

[duunoit]

One thing I've been thinking about... I've got a 28' boat with a 10" notch. Shouldn't my boat really ride more like a 27'2" boat since there is 10" less boat in the water?

 

[Dude! Sweet!]

That assumes that the notch is out of the water. Check out the running photos of your average Pantera. They're either wet up to the corner of the fairing, or they're 7 feet out of the water... All or nothing baby!

 

[Dude! Sweet!]

We can thank the Flamingo Killer, for these fine photos...

I'll warn you, don't open this in front of women, children or those with delicate constitutions!

 

[Buoy]

Sean, Look forward to seeing you get it all together.
Keep us posted with pics.

 

[Dude! Sweet!]

Couple more.

 

[Dude! Sweet!]

To the extent anyone needs anything blown up or destroyed, give me a call. I'm your guy. :sifone:

 

[Buoy]

To the extent anyone needs anything blown up or destroyed, give me a call. I'm your guy. :sifone:

:sifone:

 

[Dude! Sweet!]

:sifone:

See Tim, I've already started doing the marketing! :26:

 

[Buoy]

I'm with ya, bud.