Patiently awaiting the remote filter check....That’s a good guess the only thing is I had this boat out at the lake for a good hour long thrashing.
I ordered a new cam shaft and then tore out what I needed.
Nothing on the bottom end got touched.
I put the engine back together and then fired it up letting it idle till it seized up.
The top end looked like it had oil.
The only other change after the was first ran at the lake was I added a remote oil filter.
I wonder if I had a brain fart and reversed the oil flow by connecting oil line up wrong.
Hmmmm now I must go to the garage and investigate the remote filter.
Cheers!
Lol sorry about that,well I’m waiting for corvette parts to come in I got into the small block and have it ready for the machine shop.Patiently awaiting the remote filter check....
I can't even imagine 100mph on the water. In 2012 I was in Alabama at a bass tournament on Lake Guntersville and my buddy from there gave me his boat. It was a 17 foot Triton Bass boat with a 225 Merc on it and I had never been on the water that fast in my life... At 65 mph it started acting like an old GoldWing with the speed wobble... It still had more but I didn't...lol... Most of the other tournament entries were all sponsored fisherman and man, those boats spared no expense. FYI, they have university scholarships down there for bass fisherman students... Who'd a thunk it....100 mph...on the water? That's just nuts...gives new meaning to "get in, sit down, shut up and hold on. Good luck.
Honestly my jet boat doesn’t feel fast or iffy.100 mph...on the water? That's just nuts...gives new meaning to "get in, sit down, shut up and hold on. Good luck.
Yes Fraser Valley Dragboat Association,they started back up a couple of years ago but has had some bad luck after losing their place to race at,bad politics but have a few private places being offered up but we shall see.Damn COVID-19!There was at one time a drag boat group out there, Fraser Valley Timing Association maybe? Still around?
Did the builder of your hulls have any connection to Bitz (spelling?) Boats? Think he still is building High Performance boats there, maybe had a bit of a reputation.
Anyways you are on the verge of being banned because you have too many toys!..
Thanks for sharing the pics and stories.
So both of my jet boats are Canadian built form California Marine in Richmond BC.
They called them “Catalina”and they were a lightweight hull.
Back in the day they were a competitive boat design.
The blue one has the small block and the yellow has the ls6.View attachment 78614View attachment 78615View attachment 78616trailer before rebuild,two men can lift the yellow hull it can’t be over 300lbs as a bare hull.
View attachment 78618freshly painted rebuilt Catalina trailer.View attachment 78619View attachment 78620They used Catalina logos off a Pontiac Catalina.View attachment 78621I’ve polished the light weight gas tanks View attachment 78622I’ll be doing a complete cut and polish before I’m finished. View attachment 78624The small block CatalinaView attachment 78625View attachment 78626top speed out off the small block was 56mph.View attachment 78627View attachment 78628View attachment 78629View attachment 78630View attachment 78631 I bought the big block in pieces but the original owner from new told me that his top speed was 91mph.
I’m hoping to find 9 more mph out of her.
Hoping that I can take it to BC to race this year but am thinking COVID will kill the races again this year.
The blue boat will be up for sale come spring time.
Those are the original seats from 1978.Nice boats, those seats have some beefy side bolsters, need that to keep from rolling out of them at warp speed. I like the map pockets on the back of them, nice touch. Hope you get to thoroughly enjoy them this year
Haha I’ve hosed a few people in my life,it’s always funny.Reminds me of a story an old boss told me. He has a Cobra jet boat and was out in Sicamous with another friend in his jet boat as well. they were goofing around on the lake and a large house boat started flagging them down. so they went over to see why. The people on the houseboat were asking them to get them wet with the spray from their boats. This is where it gets interesting. Bob and his buddy back their boats up the long side of the house boat and on the count of three, punched the throttles and raised the jetavators making firehoses! they eased up pretty quickly and when they looked back they had cleared the entire top section of the houseboat!!
There was people, lawn chairs, coolers and anything else that wasn't fastened down to the houseboat floating in the lake! they did help and pull people out of the water and cleaned up. Most were laughing but a few of the wives were not impressed. Would have been awesome so see! @Rruuff Day Probably knows who I'm talking about!