Oh boy. Here comes the pickle parade.

Looks like we're both going to be ready to hit the Swimming Hole soon! I'm thinking the day after your next boil at Mack's!

Here's a question that I've thought about for a while and can't seem to find a solid answer anywhere. The fact that pretty much all of us live in Florida and a large portion lives in South Florida, is there any real reason to run a multi-vis oil? Wouldn't it make better sense to run a straight 30? E...

So you say you can get 750 @ 5500 We will use that as a constant. At 2.0 that gives a theoretical mechanical advantage twice the input making 1500 At 2.55 that 750 leveraged by ratio can yield a theoretical 1912 When you get to building serious efficient engines and try to add in another 75hp the c...

Sorry to hear. My condolences to all who knew him.

If you are running out in the grass in the Everglades, a flag is mandatory, regardless of what type of boat it is. From FWC: "No vessel shall be operated outside of Water Management District canals unless it is equipped with an orange rectangular flag at least 10 inches wide and 12 inches long and d...

You might consider the Excalibur. 72" 4 blade bowtie. Great push and good top end as well. They wok very well in direct drive applications. Just so happens I have one for sale.

To some degree, I would echo what Seven3 said. The biggest flaw in the 6.0 design is the head bolts. When International designed the engine, they used a minimal amount of head bolts. To make matters worse, they used what's called Torque-to-Yield bolts. Millions of engines of all sizes have used TTY ...

Here's a link to his FB page.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/category ... 489544357/

Mitch Kline. Don't have his number but I'm sure somebody on here does. Better break out the wallet, though. He builds top notch hulls and charges for it accordingly.

Shoot for 2,600 on the trailer. Should give you 2,700 on the water.

Something to check I run a aeromotive boost reference regulator and I've had to replace the diaphragm twice now in a year. Gets a pin hole in it and starts leaking fuel out the vacuum port. I'll have to check that. My regulator does have the boost reference port but I do not have it hooked up (I wa...

I have diagnostic software that allows me to monitor virtually any aspect of engine performance. I'm running an Aeromotive Eliminator fuel pump with an Aeromotive Bypass Regulator. When I originally installed the engine, and up to about 100 hours ago, I had 63 psi fuel pressure that would drop to ab...

Nice looking boat. My guess is two-fold; first, it's a bowhunting setup so you have a very limited market from the get-go. Second, like any other high cost 'toy', the initial depreciation is very dramatic. Given those two facts, if you need to get it gone, you're going to have to lower your price. A...

SWAMPHUNTER45 wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 07, 2019 6:20 am

So years back our lost buddy "CROW" ...

Did something happen to crowhater?

Redline or Amsoil Severe Gear 250. Both are premium products. The Royal Purple? Not so much. Do a Google on gear oil comparisons.

I second the Brad Penn. Has everything you're looking for. Personally, I run the 20w-50.

Mast is a good choice but put your money down and buy a Waterthunder. You won't go wrong. The engines are built from the crank up to be used in an airboat. Dave has put tens of thousands of hours into his designs and they work. If I had it to do over, I would have gone that route.

I have a 15' DB that originally had the 8.1 Vortec on it, rated at 465 H.P. I managed to blow that engine and replaced it with an aluminum block LS engine. Made a huge difference in the way the boat rides. The 8.1 weighs 765 lbs, the engine I installed weighs approximately 500 lbs. Running dry is no...

Second on the 5.3. My buddy just recently put a 5.3 on a 14 ft Panther with stainless rigging. I think he paid about $700.00 for the engine, I gave him a cam I had out of my LSA, he bought a Holley FI system and bought headers from Norman Clay. All in he's got less than $3,500.00 into the engine and...

Seven3 wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 08, 2019 3:34 pm

Diggin you have a set of those boxes in yours...better make sure there’s no residue left in them LOL. My new one has a set as well.

If there's any residue in there, I'll have to blame the previous owner.

The older thurman hulls had heavy taper to drop the nose farther, those boats were built specifically to have a proper sized drawer on each side to haul a certain size package(s) that were extracted from certain areas back in the good ole boy days, wink wink. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: This guy.

Here's my setup. Triple in the back, side by side driver, double jump in front. I never had to worry about small kids so the rear driver didn't matter to me but I understand the concerns of people that advocate that. The boat is a Diamondback, titled as being 15 feet but the only way you get 15 out ...

So what you're saying is you believe that a gear box has more parasitic losses than a transmission, at least 2 u-joints, a differential, axle bearings and tire/surface interface? Or are you saying 500 whp is more than 500 crank hp? If the latter, duh. Do you think so? [emoji12] Sent from my SM-G950U...

Ran across this article today and thought I would share. Lots of great info.

https://www.lsxmag.com/tech-stories/eng ... to-riches/