Post by: Hunterman on March 24, 2014, 10:52:39 AM
Hunterman(Tony)
Post by: JKEEN33 on March 24, 2014, 11:36:27 AM
Post by: Hunterman on March 24, 2014, 07:30:27 PM
"Done by June" now that is funny! :chuckle: Welcome to boat ownership.
I've owned boats for the better part of 30 years. Not a newbe here. :tup:
Hunterman(Tony)
Post by: Crunchy on March 24, 2014, 07:59:47 PM
Post by: lokidog on March 24, 2014, 08:31:13 PM
It is crazy how much time stuff takes.
Post by: Cap.Silver on March 24, 2014, 10:16:41 PM
Post by: cohoho on March 25, 2014, 09:25:57 PM
I picked up mine on Sunday after having the shop put in V8 :IBCOOL: Hope to hit the water this year .....already did install whole outdrive with collar ....now I have to put back the gas tank,fiberglass the floor,paint it ,reconnect and extend the gas hoses etc before I can put in in the water ....
What motor did it originally have? Is this a whole project you been doing?
Post by: Cap.Silver on March 25, 2014, 10:03:10 PM
I picked up mine on Sunday after having the shop put in V8 :IBCOOL: Hope to hit the water this year .....already did install whole otdrive with collar ....now I have to put back the gas tank,fiberglass the floor,paint it ,reconnect and extend the gas hoses etc before I can put in in the water ....
What motor did it originally have? Is this a whole project you been doing?
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COHOHO- to answer your q. It had 4 cylinder Volvo AQ140A with 280 drive. I bought whole transom with older 5L V8 and 280 attached to it. The engine was in bad shape so I took it to have it rebuild and do some mods like rolling cam, heat exchanger, Pietronix ignition etc ,4barrel carb . In themeantime I removed the whole outdrive incl.the collar ...and installed the V8 rated 280 drive.Hadto do some mods since the Y pipe was wider than the space between stringers, replaced shifting cable, put new bellows on etc...I sold the 4cylinder on Craigslist to pay for some of the cost of the rebuilding.I didn't rebuild the engine myself -had machine shop do it and marine mechanic to install it and tune it ....I'm doing most of the stuff myself with ocasional help from my fishing buddy .
Post by: huntnphool on March 25, 2014, 10:09:43 PM
"Done by June" now that is funny! :chuckle: Welcome to boat ownership.:chuckle:
Post by: cohoho on March 25, 2014, 10:15:00 PM
I picked up mine on Sunday after having the shop put in V8 :IBCOOL: Hope to hit the water this year .....already did install whole otdrive with collar ....now I have to put back the gas tank,fiberglass the floor,paint it ,reconnect and extend the gas hoses etc before I can put in in the water ....
What motor did it originally have? Is this a whole project you been doing?
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COHOHO- to answer your q. It had 4 cylinder Volvo AQ140A with 280 drive. I bought whole transom with older 5L V8 and 280 attached to it. The engine was in bad shape so I took it to have it rebuild and do some mods like rolling cam, heat exchanger, Pietronix ignition etc ,4barrel carb . In themeantime I removed the whole outdrive incl.the collar ...and installed the V8 rated 280 drive.Hadto do some mods since the Y pipe was wider than the space between stringers, replaced shifting cable, put new bellows on etc...I sold the 4cylinder on Craigslist to pay for some of the cost of the rebuilding.I didn't rebuild the engine myself -had machine shop do it and marine mechanic to install it and tune it ....I'm doing most of the stuff myself with ocasional help from my fishing buddy .
Pretty cool, not much of a mechanic myself, so always curious when people put things together and they work... I always have left over parts.. :chuckle:
Post by: Hunterman on March 27, 2014, 01:26:15 PM
I picked up mine on Sunday after having the shop put in V8 :IBCOOL: Hope to hit the water this year .....already did install whole otdrive with collar ....now I have to put back the gas tank,fiberglass the floor,paint it ,reconnect and extend the gas hoses etc before I can put in in the water ....
What motor did it originally have? Is this a whole project you been doing?
[/quote
COHOHO- to answer your q. It had 4 cylinder Volvo AQ140A with 280 drive. I bought whole transom with older 5L V8 and 280 attached to it. The engine was in bad shape so I took it to have it rebuild and do some mods like rolling cam, heat exchanger, Pietronix ignition etc ,4barrel carb . In themeantime I removed the whole outdrive incl.the collar ...and installed the V8 rated 280 drive.Hadto do some mods since the Y pipe was wider than the space between stringers, replaced shifting cable, put new bellows on etc...I sold the 4cylinder on Craigslist to pay for some of the cost of the rebuilding.I didn't rebuild the engine myself -had machine shop do it and marine mechanic to install it and tune it ....I'm doing most of the stuff myself with ocasional help from my fishing buddy .
Pretty cool, not much of a mechanic myself, so always curious when people put things together and they work... I always have left over parts.. :chuckle:
Those left over parts are called "Pocket Parts" :tup: They come in real handy later on down the road :yike:
Hunterman(Tony)
Post by: lokidog on March 29, 2014, 10:27:04 AM
Post by: Hunterman on March 30, 2014, 10:37:23 AM
Dang I can't wait to start fishing the coast this year. :cmp1:
Hunterman(Tony)