now this is my kind of boat...

[TAB]

having buit a k boat, countless vdrives, jets, and ran just about every tunnel uner 21' with an out board.  Most people have no idea what it takes or costs to own a 100 mph boat.    500 hp is cheap, making it live not so much.    just like every thing else.  Good, fast, cheap.  Pick 2.

[MikeBjerum]

Good, fast and cheap, three for three!

100 mph boat on a budget, ain't no different than building a street rod/bracket racer, or building sprint cars.  A good sturdy tree with a chain hoist, or a friend who's younger sister still has a swing set in backyard.

We built them all the same.  Know what you need, know what you want, some trial and error, and always go with choices that are readily available in the wrecking yard!  Blow an engine on Central on Friday night, and be back out there on Saturday night 

[Timothy]

Building power with your hands and brain is a hell of a lot harder than buying power from a catalog...

Just sayin'...

[MikeBjerum]

Timothy,

There are a lot of rodders, out there who think it is all about chips.  They may go as far as a blue bottle.  I can't believe the numbers who expect big gains from bigger tubes, and they run it all through the same restricted pinch points and catcons.

Put your keyboard down and figure out what that exhaust smell means; what if I go with this jet or that; try a hotter thermostat ... oooops, where is that cold one; maybe I open the point gap and this advance, or do I retard and and increase dwell; springs and weights in the distributor (damn do I wish they had invented zip lock bags when I was at my height of this); cam timing; and what about those head gaskets this time.

I remember the old guys looking at us and shaking their heads.  I'd love to sit down with them and compare how similar we were compared to today when the hottest guy on the strip doesn't use a wrench.

TAB, what will a vacuum switch and your windshield washer do for you?

[Timothy]

Timothy,

There are a lot of rodders, out there who think it is all about chips.  They may go as far as a blue bottle.  I can't believe the numbers who expect big gains from bigger tubes, and they run it all through the same restricted pinch points and catcons.

Put your keyboard down and figure out what that exhaust smell means; what if I go with this jet or that; try a hotter thermostat ... oooops, where is that cold one; maybe I open the point gap and this advance, or do I retard and and increase dwell; springs and weights in the distributor (damn do I wish they had invented zip lock bags when I was at my height of this); cam timing; and what about those head gaskets this time.

I remember the old guys looking at us and shaking their heads.  I'd love to sit down with them and compare how similar we were compared to today when the hottest guy on the strip doesn't use a wrench.

TAB, what will a vacuum switch and your windshield washer do for you?

My point, exactly...

I got a good whipping when my Pop found me in a sea of lawnmower parts when I was about nine!  Had to put it back together in a hurry and it ran for another five years or so...   

Damn to I miss wrenching on stuff...

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[Big Frank]

Buy a Chinese all terrain vehicle. You'll be wrenching all the time.

[TAB]

if i wanted to wrench on something all the time i would buy a porsche with mechanical fuel inject.  Lol

[MikeBjerum]

If you don't want to wrench you aren't a rodder

[Timothy]

I've got to rebuild a snow blower soon, give me something to do...

Ain't much I can't bring back to life..

[TAB]

If you don't want to wrench you aren't a rodder

wrench to up grade is one thing, wrench to fix shit that breaks all the time sucks.