I read in another thread where you guys are hungry for project threads.
Ghost (Mike) brought his 24 Cig from MD to MI this year for some upgrades and the snowball started with this.
I read in another thread where you guys are hungry for project threads.
Ghost (Mike) brought his 24 Cig from MD to MI this year for some upgrades and the snowball started with this.
The project started out to upgrade the 292 inline 6 cyl engines (more HP), clean up engine bay and change out 1 of the Alpha drives to a counter rotating.
The disassembly and snowball beings going down the hill.
Keep up the pictures Brian and Mike!
Ya got some real antiquities there. I've not seen trim pumps and brackets like that before.
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Engines were torn down,cleaned and sent to machine shop in their quest for more HP (my favorite part of the business). Shortly after dropping off the engines we start cleaning up the engine bay for repaint. Thats when the snowball takes a turn into deeper snow.
I’m thinking I must be loosing my mind.
I thought Ghost’s boat was already done, and the twin I-6 engines were replaced with a single big block.
I was sure I saw pictures of it running that were taken by f_inscreename.
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Bill
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1985 Donzi Criterion SS
1967 Donzi 16 Ski Sporter, C16-409, Has a new home!
38' Carver Aft Cabin
1968 Sea Ray SRV 180 w/1975 70 hp Evinrude
10" RIB w/15 hp 1984 Evinrude
Now decisions had to be made in what direction to take knowing it needs a transom and stringer work. The 292's were going to take a lot of $$$$ to get them were Mike wanted them and we still had to deal with the drive issues. We talked back and forth for a couple of weeks when I finally convinced him that a single big block and Bravo drive was the best route. Just so happens I had said pieces on the shelf looking for a new home.
Sorry Mike wrong project, here we go.
496 HO with a Bravo X drive. Mike added the Stainless marine exhaust, HP gimbal and Hardin stainless sea pump to make this a modern and reliable package.
Yes he had use of the boat after phase 1 of this a project.....its back now for phase 2.
Time to remove the fine job that previous owner had.......well "done" and start with doing it the right way. As you can see in the picture of the transom plate the bottom drain hole was cut out to 2 inches and was solid glassed so water can not get to the wood after final drilling.
What is phase 2?
Lake St. Clair, Lake Huron, Lake Erie, Lake Oakland
New transom was installed and braces had to be made to secure the sagging deck area that supports the hatch. Only pic I have of the hatch supports are after phase 1 was done.
Brian,
Thanks for sharing! Looks real nice. The original set up reminded me of the Bertram Baron that was on ebay awhile back. The name of the boat was "Sitting Duck" A guy boat the boat and I think is done with the restoration. It also had twin 6cyls. Said it sounded really different when they were both running with the through hulls. Like a 12 cyl. on steriods!
Next we cut out the new Bravo hole and completely glassed in the outside of the transom so we had a clean slate to work with. Mike wanted the exhaust as close to the water line as we could get it and all holes through the transom were oversized and glassed to size.The transom was then gel coated and blocked flat.
Be patient Carl phase 2 will start when I finish with posting of phase 1. This time I will post as we go, being winter I have more time.
Now it was time to set up the stringers and clean up the rest of the engine bay. We also had to add battery and trim pump pads. Because we had to remove the center stringer we added 8 layers of staggered 1708 to inside of the engine bay between the 2 new stringers.
Custom engine mounts were fabed and we took the rest of the engine bay down to bare glass blocking it out for a smooth gel coat finish.
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