Hey everyone,
I've been reading and searching away for quite some time to learn as much as I can about rigging my 69 and still have a couple questions I could use more clarity on. Story on the boat is that I bought it from a co-worker of mine who's family changed it over from a drag boat to a family skier in the 70's. It sat most of the time at the Holiday Inn parking structure in Burbank since then. It cam to me with a 327 (pulled from a 68 Camaro in a junk yard in Sun Valley in the 70's), velvet drive, 1:1 Vdrive, and 3 blade prop. I'm going to go the route of keeping it a ski style boat with the small block and a close to period correct, classy restoration. This being said, I'm ditching the velvet drive as I bought glenwood motor plates, and I also received a 12 degree Casale with the boat. I read that 10 degrees are more desired to keep a motor lower, but due to the low HP application and the ability to run U joints on the driveline, I figured I could drop the motor as low as need be with proper U joint angles. My questions are as follows (although I am eager to hear any input from you guys being the experts)
1. What dictates V drive placement? Should I just bolt it where it lies when the mid plate lines up with the stringers and the prop shaft lines up to the output? I am going to make a mid plate on my plasma table so I figured I could lower it or raise the Casale unit and trim the prop shaft if the V drive needs to be lower/further to the rear of the boat or any reason.
2. My motor is further back and probably will stay that way to allow for the 4 seats. Does motor angle play a part like in cars or do I base it off the Vdrive input angle?
3. Im going to polish the Casale. Are there any local Vdrive guys that rebuild them? I'm in Orange County so I could go to Casale but I would like to hang with a boat guy if I can. I have a box of parts like the in/out and I have a 18 gears from what I assume could have been from the big block set up from the boats infancy. Any recommendations for overdriving it a little or would you recommend 1:1 again?
4. Lastly, and prop ideas to start. I know I'll need to experiment but should I go 2 blade or keep the 3?
Thank you in advance!
Grant
I've been reading and searching away for quite some time to learn as much as I can about rigging my 69 and still have a couple questions I could use more clarity on. Story on the boat is that I bought it from a co-worker of mine who's family changed it over from a drag boat to a family skier in the 70's. It sat most of the time at the Holiday Inn parking structure in Burbank since then. It cam to me with a 327 (pulled from a 68 Camaro in a junk yard in Sun Valley in the 70's), velvet drive, 1:1 Vdrive, and 3 blade prop. I'm going to go the route of keeping it a ski style boat with the small block and a close to period correct, classy restoration. This being said, I'm ditching the velvet drive as I bought glenwood motor plates, and I also received a 12 degree Casale with the boat. I read that 10 degrees are more desired to keep a motor lower, but due to the low HP application and the ability to run U joints on the driveline, I figured I could drop the motor as low as need be with proper U joint angles. My questions are as follows (although I am eager to hear any input from you guys being the experts)
1. What dictates V drive placement? Should I just bolt it where it lies when the mid plate lines up with the stringers and the prop shaft lines up to the output? I am going to make a mid plate on my plasma table so I figured I could lower it or raise the Casale unit and trim the prop shaft if the V drive needs to be lower/further to the rear of the boat or any reason.
2. My motor is further back and probably will stay that way to allow for the 4 seats. Does motor angle play a part like in cars or do I base it off the Vdrive input angle?
3. Im going to polish the Casale. Are there any local Vdrive guys that rebuild them? I'm in Orange County so I could go to Casale but I would like to hang with a boat guy if I can. I have a box of parts like the in/out and I have a 18 gears from what I assume could have been from the big block set up from the boats infancy. Any recommendations for overdriving it a little or would you recommend 1:1 again?
4. Lastly, and prop ideas to start. I know I'll need to experiment but should I go 2 blade or keep the 3?
Thank you in advance!
Grant
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