Holy ****!
Did ya get one for me too?
This is gonna be good!!

Congrats Woodie!!!!! But a word of advice.... The only thing running at half throttle will get you... is SOAKED from the rooster tail of the boat in front of you!!!! But seriously... That is going to be one sweet boat when finished!!!! See, I told ya not to fret only when and IF the reason arose!!! You've put toooooooooo much into it for something to be wrong! BUILD ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks to ya all for the sweet words!

This Blata really makes my heart pound, and I just can't wait to put it into the test-stand after New Year.
Isuzu my boy. You must understand that a motor with such power does'nt need 100 % throttle to outrun some texan kat. So my answer to you must be: "Watch my wake"

Cheers an happy New Year to all of my friends at MGB!

Woodie.

(And now off to wining, dining and partying)!

I hear ya Woodie!!!! Have a super New Years night and be careful!!!!! I just got home from work... and have to go in tomorrow too, so I'm going to bring in the new year about 8:00 with the wifey here at the house. Then it's nighty night time...


To all at MGB.. Have a Happy New Years!!!!!!

One important question to anyone who knows:

Is it normal to receive a brand new engine without getting any sort of datasheet, "exploded drawing", or instructions of how to set up the engine?
I did not get any of this with the Blata, and I just wonder what rights I could have as a "consumer".
How would you react to this?

Cheers!

Woodie.

Boat parts in Europe.

This is mostly for boaters in the EU. I just found this UK page with lots of boatparts at reasonable prices.

www.prestwich.ndirect.co.uk/index.html

(But I still need some good advice about what submerged props to use on my mono (2 props - max 72 mm each).

Cheers!

Woodie.

Woodie wrote:
Strange really!
I would be contacting them to find out what is going on.
Without a data sheet from your supplier you have no idea on tuning, a lot of places will not cover you with any sort of warranty unless you stick to thier tuning specs.
Would hate to see you damage that engine straight away from running too lean or something.

Thanks Oz.

I will grip my retailer by the throat to get manual etc. before i give him the next order.

Generally:

I am beginning to understand that you don't just have to be a natural born expert to join the boating hobby. You are really better off, if you are a natural born millionaire too!

Right now I am preparing orders for all the small hardware details inside the boat (not talking about sterndrives, servobox or servos). It's just about flexi-drives, bolts, oiling devices and other little things to make the inside machinery work.
The order(s) will be put to different european retailers, just to minimize the cost.
But still we are talking about an expence about 450 USD just for getting the inside mechanics working (!)

About the gasoline tank, I have found no solution so far. But my son (the marine engineer) will be sailing for the next weeks. I gave him a drawing of the perfect tank, and if he gets the possibility in the ships workshop, he will weld a high pressure tank in thin stainless steel to fit rigth into my Kat Killer.
(High pressure: No air inlet (most important: no risk of water intake either). This works by pumping extra pressure into a tank filled to about 2/3 or 3/4. In that way a 1,3 liter tank filled to about 1 liter, should be able to deliver about 3/4 liter gas before loosing pressure. This should be done by a simple bicycle valve on the tank and by using a simple bicycle pump on it. Maybe some kind of air pressure device could be used to send pressured air into the tank too).
This off course calls for a very strong tank, but if anyone has experience or comments to that sort of tank, be wellcome to help me out, please!

About the build (wooden part): Engine rails are truely the nasty part, (a pain in the @ss) but I expect to get them to fall into place in a day or two. (Pics will follow, when it's done).

Good luck to ya all with your own projects!

Cheers to ya all!

Woodie.

Hey Woodie, Be careful with the pressurized tank system... you may be setting yourself up for major headaches with flooding the engine out!!!At first, it seems like it would run VERY RICH at first (if you could get it to not flood) and would lean out as the pressure dropped off!! This is just my theory, not a proven fact. I would like to know what others think!!!

Isuzu.

To be honest I have the same concerns about the pressurised tank, and as you say it would be good to get some advice from someone with (good or bad) experiences about this.
Could be it's just so simple that you just have to pull the gas less in the beginning of a run and then some more in the end of the run? Off course with a carb set up right for these conditions?

Any opinions or experiences about this is wellcome!

Cheers!

Woodie.