The Midas Project

[ciao!]

i bought it of geoff 99,raced it 4 litre worlds in palma took 3rd,then took it to records week to take 4 litre national record 93.93mph still stands,
ran it again gib 02 blew hole in tunnel,back to windemere ran 110mph with efis,still got papa kilo now 29ft long

Oops sorry about that!

[BluFin]

welcome to "That" age john

now where did I put my car keys ???????

[ciao!]

Spot on! Thats exactly how I felt!

[BluFin]

Last Saturday, No kids, not hacking down with rain yipeeeee. Was -6c (21 f) for the first 2 hours though Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Motor & jack plate off.
Drill & fit the marine ply spacer (14 coats of Epoxy, well I was bored on thoose wet evenings). Motor & jackplate back on, Refit the lifter pump and bleed & function, its not even get dark yet !!!

All clearance issues now solved, still thinking on trim hoses might cut them & fit some -4 end fittings & run through hull, would be cleaner.
Dome nuts on the engine serve no useful function other than covering the stud end and give a cleaner finish. Will start cutting the loom & hoses to length now and connect.

Bit of chinscratch on the height might be a tad on the high side even when fully lowered, but fek it I rather fit a remote pickup to be honest if its an issue down the road.

[Martin W]

John those domed head nut look well sexy - you old tart

[BluFin]

Well its nearly there just a few bits left to do but a busy few weeks at work are ahead for the next month

Trim thru hull ft’ngs & internal hoses
Battery
2 elect & manual bilge pumps to fit, fixings already in
Gearshift cable
Throttle cable
2 jack plugs to fit
Trim actuator & indicator
Lifter actuator & indicator
Secure RH sponson loom & cables
Fit front seat
Profile front trailer bunks
touch in fitting out paint scabs
Modify engine cowl lock mechanism
tweek, adjust, set-up, recheck
Errr ....Hissy fit deck repair

[Jay Smith]

John,
Are you about ready for a re-ring job on the JSRE 280 ? Burty, Scott, and Mike (sending 2 ) are sending 4 over across the BIG POND in a week or so I know yours is bound to need freshing up .....


Just jerkin ya chain a bit mate !
Jay @ JSRE

[BluFin]

Nah should be Ok for a bit but will get you to ready up a spare powerhead (Identical Twin) nearer the time.

All joking aside service in the UK is really poor nowadays I really cant understand how anybody stays in business. It has caught me out so badly. Earls were the worst 4 months for some -6 fittings & adaptors.
I dont think I will purchase anything here again just go straight to the US and bite the bullet on the shipping.
Latest joke is a metal hose joiner 14 days so far and thats just coming from 20 miles away. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Rant over
Maybe should have shipped the boat to the US had a couple of months off to do it then ship it back..
Bloody EU & the Metric system ... Royal with cheese my ass it's a quarter pounder. ..............

[BluFin]

This is posted as a Learn from Incidents

I have been having loads of trouble with the new steering over the last few weeks. & has been a bit of strange one to pin down and eaten a ****e load of time & something like 20 lts of fluid.
Helm is a capalano 1275V Ram is a Latham run on -6 hose & fittings

It starts off fine but becomes stiff going RH down you can force it over but you can really feel the pressure build up & that helm is ticking away........

It sounds quite straight forward until you get into the trouble shooting.
Isolated all the various sections & all worked fine with no problems, even had the ram flow checked & the helm unit all perfect. I was just stripping the ram of tonight to ship it off again & was breaking into the base unit when I just happened to notice something as I pulled the -6 to 1/4 NPT elbows off the unit.
One seem slightly more polished than the other, put them side by side & to my poor old eyes even with glasses on looked different.

Quick check with a drill shank - fits in one not the other. Vernier out and bug*er me they are different internal diameters, same part numbers same everything just different manufacturing tolerances (being Kind there).
Run them both through enlarging the smaller to the larger size problem is solved, total difference was 1/8"
What made it feel worse was the fact it was on the smaller side of the unbalanced ram, if it was the other way round it may have not been such an issue
Don’t forget

Check the Bloody Obvious

[BluFin]

Well after many months delay I managed to progress things to get the motor fired up.
Hippo chic is none to impressed and thinks I should be paying more attention to the impending arrival of the new addition to the family, didn't help the fact I never notice the haircut for 7 hrs after I explained how sexy Jays Motor sounded & how easy it went having got it all plumbed in and fired within 2 secs of cranking, having been shipped 3000 miles ,bounced in a crate and left standing for 6 months with just a weekly hand turn.
Scared my 84 year old next door who thought it was a helecopter, dog wet itself, closely followed by me................
Another VERY satisfied customer Mr Smith

[Jay Smith]

John ,

Glad the engine is all what it was expected. If I send you a sister motor to yours the British Empire will never be the same....

I'll be looking for the another engine as we spoke this afternoon...Details later..

Jay @ JSRE

PS I have 4 of your contrymen's 2.5's here , Maybe I'll just tell Scott Gibbons somebody swiped his 280 and we won't have to look any farther..

Don't fret Scott your baby is safe at JSRE along with Mike and Robs...

Jay

[BluFin]

all done off to the sea side.

treated my self to a little sub 5k squirt after 2 hours one handed on the cell phone
http://www.hedges-uk.com/boat/run2.mp4

[BluFin]

Getting there slowly got a few more hours on it now & up to 6k
runs a steady 77 on the 28" & just a bit over 80 on the 30".
Really looking forward to the last 40% Mr Smith which I try & get finished next time out.
Love to know where its going to settle on pitch not got a clue,
could be as high as a 32" Gulp !!!! which is what a heaver sistership run with a 2.4

Oh everybody comments on the sound it makes, awesome so they say. cant hear the thing myself just wind noise, with a odd prop Warrrrrrrrp

[BluFin]

ECU unlocked but was swinging a whooping big prop. 90.54mph 6900rpm try again next weekend with someting more suited to the boat. Not sure where it will top off but tiz not bad for a single 280 on a 27 footer as it stands now

[gazza]

That's good to hear its unlocked and by the sounds of it fleckking flying see you at the poker.