Screw it. I'll eat crow.

[Headless hula]

 

[Headless hula]

Ok, so the new pic dealio will take some getting used to.

Wonder if the emojis work?

 

[redone76]

Whatcha making there dood?

 

[Headless hula]

Whatcha making there dood?

Seat base for my buddies jet bote. He broke the stock one.

 

[Headless hula]

It's upside down in this pic. The slots are for some led lighting.

 

[Headless hula]

 

[SBMech]

Man that is great work!

 

[UltraLucky]

Great project i have enjoyed following your progress.
Where did you end up with the prop shaft dist. to the bottom of the boat(keel) I saw you raised the motor and drive 3".

 

[Headless hula]

Great project i have enjoyed following your progress.
Where did you end up with the prop shaft dist. to the bottom of the boat(keel) I saw you raised the motor and drive 3".

It's right at 5"

Thanks for the compliment.

 

[Headless hula]

Found some aluminum tubing at the scrapyard in town today. Seems some fender holders are in order.

 

[Gelcoater]

I dig checking on this thread every now and then to see what kind of shenanigans are going on in Hula town.
It never disappoints.

I'd offer the thumbs up chinga, but Dave hasn't properly equipped us yet.

 

[Headless hula]

I dig checking on this thread every now and then to see what kind of shenanigans are going on in Hula town.
It never disappoints.

I'd offer the thumbs up chinga, but Dave hasn't properly equipped us yet.

Wondered if you were still hanging around here in the trailer park...

Lmao....


Btw, dunno if you saw the video I posted of the hula puttin the smack down on a 28dcb.

Yea. That happened this summer....

 

[Headless hula]

This YouTube video just won't go away.

 

[Gelcoater]

Wondered if you were still hanging around here in the trailer park...

Lmao....


Btw, dunno if you saw the video I posted of the hula puttin the smack down on a 28dcb.

Yea. That happened this summer....

That's a pretty nice reward for all your efforts.

Somehow I knew way back when this build was going to be something special.

 

[Headless hula]

 

[Headless hula]

 

[Headless hula]

 

[Jimmy]

Nearly have to put the ice breaker on the front??

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[Headless hula]

Nearly have to put the ice breaker on the front??

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Nah, we're good today bud. 63! (17c for you metric bastards)

 

[Jimmy]

Nah, we're good today bud. 63! (17c for you metric bastards)

Thats like the depths of our winter right there.. id die

 

[Headless hula]

So, an update on the tuning aspect of this project.
I was hitting a huge wall at 3200 rpm. the only way i'd get past it, was to trim it to the moon, and nail the throttle. It'd take off like a ROCKET...
to just try and sneak above that rpm, the motor would just bog.

this is a stock 502 cal, which is what i started with.

this is where I'm at now. check out the gas we had to dump in it at 3200....
basically a 5 gallon bucket and a funnel right into the plenum...
AFR at that point is 11.5..

Its still rich up top, but so much more driveable. I never thought in a million years it would be such a long process to get this done. (its still not done, but a shitton closer.)

 

[Headless hula]

49 and calm today.

 

[redone76]

Boating in that temp and your top speed both impress the hell outta me!

 

[Headless hula]

So I've been busy galavanting allover the damn place. Since I've posted anything in this thread, I traveled to Iceland, Orlando, and an epic roadtrip out west. Mustered 11 states and 4600 miles. Given all that windshield time, I took the opportunity to remember my vision for what I wanted the hula to be. I have a few more details to fool with on the motor to make it into what I want.
First item is hard piping the water line from the sea pump to the thermostat housing. I have had a couple of different versions of hose routing on this project, and have never had the correct parts. Because of the myriad of versions of the merc 5.7, I couldn't figure out which part numbers were correct, and because of the higher mounting height of the motor in the boat the power steering cooler, and cool fuel module aren't in their "stock" locations. So, further into the rabbit hole we go. Can't figure out what it's supposed to be, make my own parts.


I have a small oil leak on the pressure sender that needs a moment on my attention,

Also need to pull the oil pan and make a hole in the windage tray for the dip stick.
When I did the dipstick and tube I shoved it in till it stopped, marked it for length and cut it off. When the pan is full, just the tip shows (yes, just the tip, and only for a minute....just to see how it feels) barely a drop of oil, so if it's low on oil, I have no idea how much to add.

That's a really dumb move on my part, and a total rookie move, so I'm correcting it.

Anyway, here's the obligatory pic of the mandrel bends I picked up. Very fortunate to have a local business that manufactures these.

 

[Headless hula]

Never heard her bark in March before.

 

[Headless hula]

Last trip out. 2 coolers, 1 hot chic, 1/2 tank of fun juice .


Guess that fall tune/cal ain't too far off.

#smallblocknation.