Thread: Project $ 3 K Is Underway

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Thanks Brian. Yep, I am like the energizer bunny now ready to get this thing running. My goal is to do something every night, even if it is very trivial.

Just needed to get away from it for a while and get my interest renewed.


Don

I've been keeping up with you and the gang and I am going to get back on my roadster and hopefully get It one the road for the spring season (no paint but roadworthy). I am jealous cause you have roller cam block an I don't, 1 piece rear seal, but no roller. Are you going to run a roller cam?
All of the kool things you'll have made are an insperation.
Jim

Don---My wife tells me that most of the things I do at night are trivial!!!

Brian, all women must take lessons from each other. Don't take it personally, it's a conspiracy.


Jim: Thanks, sounds like you are getting close too. Yup, I am going to use the roller cam that came in the engine. It is in great shape, and I don't feel like laying out a couple or few hundred more dollars on a lumpy cam, just to get a nasty idle. I just heard my Sons boat running with the same engine, running through transom exhausts, and it idles rough enough for me right now. If I do decide to slip in a different one down the road it will be an easy thing to do.

I really did luck into this engine. It was a very low hour marine engine, and the guy insisted we change it out for one with more HP, so I got this one free. One of our Techs put me on to it, and said it could be run as is. I decided to freshen it up a little though in the interest of not having to tear it down again for a long time. I have never owned a roller cam engine, so I am looking forward to it.


Don