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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: SpareParts]
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02/02/15 08:06 AM
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Too many projects here too, but certainly can't win any "one-up" contest with some here.
10 acres to maintain, my sons are into shooting but it's just a distraction from boat/car building for me.
Got 4 boats, 1 is for sale.
68 RaysonCraft, 18ft, 440 mopar, velvet-drive a very clean/solid vintage skier.
64 RaysonCraft, 17ft, project, getting a B/RB, has F/N/R Casale box. Very solid vintage ski boat.
77 Mantra jetboat, Looks like "Rogers Bonneville", Berkeley pump, "G" splitbowl, loader grate, shoe, rideplate, 2" pump setback, project, has Mopar hardware, needs a lot.
96 Northwoods, 14ft, w/15hp Johnson, best lil' fishin' boat.
69 340 GTS
69 RR street/strip
69 Sport Satellite
80 Cordoba LS (budget street/strip for my sons).
90 Chevy work truck, "shop truck" for towing skiboats.
67 Camaro RS/SS RatRide, unrestored day-2 street/strip car.
Eventually, I'll narrow it down to the 2 v-drive boats and the 2 B-bodies. My sons may inherit the rest before I pass on.
R.I.P.- Gary "Coop" Davis 02/09/68-05/13/04
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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: Dean_Kuzluzski]
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02/02/15 08:28 AM
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Park Forest, IL
slantzilla
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Never too many projects, just too little time or money.  I don't feel too bad now. I only have 5. 1. '73 Duster 2. The Daytona 3. '83 D-150 4. '04 Red Horse Chopper 5. '72 Skylark The chopper is actually done and up for sale. The Duster is staged up waiting for warm weather so I can do brakes and lines. The Daytona is ready for the engine/trans and the "it will only take a minute" fab stuff. The truck I have no idea what I will do with it. I should sell it, but I have way more in it than I should have. The Skylark I have had for 30 years. It was my first real race car and has an odd story about how I got it back after selling it once. It is my "I'm gonna fix 'er up someday" car. Honestly? It will probably be on my estate sale just as it sits.
"Everybody funny, now you funny too."
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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: Monte_Smith]
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02/02/15 05:47 PM
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Las Vegas NV
moparmanjames
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None of my many "car" projects are even NEAR the front burner right now, much less ON it.........LOL!!!
Lets see...........
Finish new shop
Finish new reloading room and sight in about 10 rifles, as well as work up some loads.....I do long range shooting as a hobby
Finish new motor for Jet Boat
Finish resto on 81 XR500
Finish EFI conversion on CJ5
Finish changing out rear swingarm and fenders on Harley...........and THEN, I need to work on Challenger, Lil Red truck, GTX, 63 Dodge, etc, etc, etc..........LOL!!!!
Monte
What motor are you building for the Jet Boat?
Alum headed 515 BBC, with a 6/71 and hidden EFI in the hat.
Here is boat with previous motor
Monte
Dang Monte that is badass! Hey I was talking to a boat mechanic and he was telling me not to turn those jets past 5500 rpm or they could blow, and I was thinking yeah, anything will come apart if you spin it high enough but 5500 seems a little tame for performance. What modifications do I need to perform for the extra load?
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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: MR_P_BODY]
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02/02/15 06:37 PM
02/02/15 06:37 PM
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Bend,OR USA
Cab_Burge
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I would like to tell all of you guys that your crazy and I've have never had to many projects to finish, but I would be lying to you  and I don't want to lie to anyone so I won't   6 cars in processing now and thinking of taking another two on   Better than gambling,drinking, womenizing and drugs, correct I do like shooting also but that comes 5th The only things holding me back from succeedeing is time, money, ambition and coordiantion of these resources
Mr.Cab Racing and winning with Mopars since 1964. (Old F--t, Huh)
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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: Cab_Burge]
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02/02/15 07:04 PM
02/02/15 07:04 PM
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Romeo MI
MR_P_BODY
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I would like to tell all of you guys that your crazy and I've have never had to many projects to finish, but I would be lying to you and I don't want to lie to anyone so I won't 6 cars in processing now and thinking of taking another two on Better than gambling,drinking, womenizing and drugs, correct I do like shooting also but that comes 5th The only things holding me back from succeedeing is time, money, ambition and coordiantion of these resources
Well Cab.. the wife and I both hunt a fair amount
and back when I was building the P-Body... I would
buy a race car part and she would buy a new gun..
we both fish so we are good that way.. she doesnt
care to go to the track that much anymore because
she has a BAD hip(this one will be replaced in the
spring after we get back home) and she already had
the other one replaced and this summer she had her
left shoulder replaced.. pretty soon all the corners
on her will be new... she lets me do what I want so
we are both happy she knows I want to do
drag week and I have gone 3 times but not with my
own ride
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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: MR_P_BODY]
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02/02/15 07:23 PM
02/02/15 07:23 PM
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Holly/MI
Dean_Kuzluzski
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Jetboats need torque not hp. That's why the big cube motors is where it evolved to by the late 70's. The cut of the impeller reaches a point of diminishing return as you go from an AA, to A, to B. Kind of like a stall converter, fuel efficiency goes away, rpm's are screaming, just for a few more mph. Pretty soon the owner is sick of feeding the thing ($$$).  And what ruined it further, most newbies owners would beach the thing or fire it up at the boat launch and suck up sand to inadvertently wear out the "wear ring" and further reduce efficiency.
R.I.P.- Gary "Coop" Davis 02/09/68-05/13/04
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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: Dean_Kuzluzski]
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02/02/15 07:31 PM
02/02/15 07:31 PM
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MR_P_BODY
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Jetboats need torque not hp. That's why the big cube motors is where it evolved to by the late 70's. The cut of the impeller reaches a point of diminishing return as you go from an AA, to A, to B. Kind of like a stall converter, fuel efficiency goes away, rpm's are screaming, just for a few more mph. Pretty soon the owner is sick of feeding the thing ($$$).
And what ruined it further, most newbies owners would beach the thing or fire it up at the boat launch and suck up sand to inadvertently wear out the "wear ring" and further reduce efficiency.
Part of it was just the size of the outlet.. most
were a 4" but you could replace it with a 5" but
your right.. it took torque to turn that pump
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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: Dean_Kuzluzski]
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02/02/15 07:35 PM
02/02/15 07:35 PM
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BigBlockMopar
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I have a few projects lined up for the next coming years... decades perhaps.  - 1957 Plymouth 4dr HT - major-project - 1959 Dodge 2dr HT - very major-project - 392 Hemi build ('57) - 5.7 Hemi build - almost done - 6.1 Hemi build - 500" 8/71 build project - 400 stroker Aside from fixing up/repairing/keep running the other cars in the stable.
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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: moparmanjames]
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02/02/15 07:42 PM
02/02/15 07:42 PM
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None of my many "car" projects are even NEAR the front burner right now, much less ON it.........LOL!!!
Lets see...........
Finish new shop
Finish new reloading room and sight in about 10 rifles, as well as work up some loads.....I do long range shooting as a hobby
Finish new motor for Jet Boat
Finish resto on 81 XR500
Finish EFI conversion on CJ5
Finish changing out rear swingarm and fenders on Harley...........and THEN, I need to work on Challenger, Lil Red truck, GTX, 63 Dodge, etc, etc, etc..........LOL!!!!
Monte
What motor are you building for the Jet Boat?
Alum headed 515 BBC, with a 6/71 and hidden EFI in the hat.
Here is boat with previous motor
Monte
Dang Monte that is badass! Hey I was talking to a boat mechanic and he was telling me not to turn those jets past 5500 rpm or they could blow, and I was thinking yeah, anything will come apart if you spin it high enough but 5500 seems a little tame for performance. What modifications do I need to perform for the extra load?
Its all about "loading" the pump properly. Be that with a certain loader, a different cut impeller, nozzle bushing, whatever. Sounds like you should talk to someone who KNOWS jetboats.....not just a boat mechanic. It's true that you build for torque, NOT rpm as you can't spin a jet pump to the moon, but pretty much ANY stock jet drive will be fine to 5500. And it's NOT that it will come apart after that......it just cavitates so much water, the extra rpm gains you nothing.
Monte
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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: Monte_Smith]
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02/02/15 08:17 PM
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bigfork mn
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I started a new project a month ago building a 94 ram 1500 2wd reg cab short box diesel drag truck and I posted it on here but it got moved to the truck section I guess because you cant have drag trucks I guess. Either way I dont think there is such thing as to many projects.  Cummins 24 valve project
67' charger 499 RB
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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: Monte_Smith]
#1743870
02/03/15 03:08 AM
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None of my many "car" projects are even NEAR the front burner right now, much less ON it.........LOL!!!
Lets see...........
Finish new shop
Finish new reloading room and sight in about 10 rifles, as well as work up some loads.....I do long range shooting as a hobby
Finish new motor for Jet Boat
Finish resto on 81 XR500
Finish EFI conversion on CJ5
Finish changing out rear swingarm and fenders on Harley...........and THEN, I need to work on Challenger, Lil Red truck, GTX, 63 Dodge, etc, etc, etc..........LOL!!!!
Monte
What motor are you building for the Jet Boat?
Alum headed 515 BBC, with a 6/71 and hidden EFI in the hat.
Here is boat with previous motor
Monte
Dang Monte that is badass! Hey I was talking to a boat mechanic and he was telling me not to turn those jets past 5500 rpm or they could blow, and I was thinking yeah, anything will come apart if you spin it high enough but 5500 seems a little tame for performance. What modifications do I need to perform for the extra load?
Its all about "loading" the pump properly. Be that with a certain loader, a different cut impeller, nozzle bushing, whatever. Sounds like you should talk to someone who KNOWS jetboats.....not just a boat mechanic. It's true that you build for torque, NOT rpm as you can't spin a jet pump to the moon, but pretty much ANY stock jet drive will be fine to 5500. And it's NOT that it will come apart after that......it just cavitates so much water, the extra rpm gains you nothing.
Monte
Yeah I'm new to boats but just looking at the basic Jetboat with a killer big block, it seemed like overkill, I mean I would think any decent big block should be able to turn those pumps to 5500.
So I wondered why didn't they just have like two or three Jet drives driven by a badass big block so all that power isn't going to waste?
That way you would have two or three times the propulsion without spinning the motor sky high.
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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: dragram440]
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02/03/15 03:11 AM
02/03/15 03:11 AM
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moparmanjames
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I started a new project a month ago building a 94 ram 1500 2wd reg cab short box diesel drag truck and I posted it on here but it got moved to the truck section I guess because you cant have drag trucks I guess. Either way I dont think there is such thing as to many projects.
Cummins 24 valve project
Nice truck man.
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Re: Do you have too many projects?
[Re: SpareParts]
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02/03/15 04:47 PM
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Cincinnati, Ohio
Challenger 1
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I've got the right amount of projects, I just need more money and time mainly money.
I'd like to pick up an old Suzuki Quadzilla to mess with tho, they were cool as hell when I was younger
I sold my 87 quad racer 500 after owing it since new just last fall. Got tired of it being in the way. I had my fun with it, road it a lot. 
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Some I/O drive V8 powered boats will also 
