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  1. Don't tear that motor down just to flip the piston. It will probably destroy itself if you flip it since it's worn in upside down. If you have any concern about piston to valve clearance just clay one piston and then mic the clay. Those are very low compression pistons anyways so you should be fine. I've seen the 351 windsors go for 2 to 3 thousand hours. I would probably go with a head from "Trickflow" if I were you. Then when you see the need to freshen up the bottom end I would go with at least flat top pistons with a mild cam. That engine is easy to make respectable power out of so good luck.
  2. Ray Crenshaw is in Georgia and is a MasterCraft Promo guy. Here's a link to his 2014 boat. Great guy. http://www.ski-it-again.com/php/skiitagain.php?endless=summer&topic=Search&category=Promo_Boat&postid=29279
  3. I used to ski there as well. I used to always love their tournaments. The site ski's amazing, the water always felt slow to me, usually always ran tournament pb's there. Loved the people there as well. Very nice, very accommodating.
  4. I say no. And I wish I never did. I think I was a better skier before I switched. Should have never listened to this move that a coach down in florida insisted I do. Ruined a full year of having to re-learn how to turn 2 and 4 ball. I'm LFF and now hold the handle like a right handed batter. I say don't do it, go back to a left handed batter's grip and work on other things that will matter more like keeping that handle glued to your hip, etc.... Too many great LFF skier's out there that hold the handle wrong to argue with.
  5. @oldmanskier, glad to hear. I've skied your lake some in the past. LOVE the place! Something about the water there at No Wake...I always ski good there, we used to always ski your tournament. Haven't skied there in about 5 or 10 years now. Miss that place. Good to hear you all are still at it, I work in Dalton, but live further south. It's about a 2 hour drive or we would have joined. Good Luck, Ken
  6. @oldmanskier I've been a member of the Atlanta Waterski Club and other's around here for a long time. You need to speak with a certain Carey Z. from the Whitestone club. We had a crazy member go up to Whitestone and ski, then run into the turn island and messed herself up a good bit. Thank God Whitestone had good insurance. She was an absolute BUTT about it and sued them even though it was her fault and she was an AWSA member. It was ugly! Also, one time at our Rome, Ga club(Seven Hills, long since closed) we had a barefooter flair out from the boat to far and ran into the dock. Again, we had good insurance. Stay insured for sure. Stuff happens.....
  7. Hanna and Her sister can definitely RIP! They used to come ski with us here at the Atlanta waterski club. Super nice family! Way to go Hanna!
  8. +1 for @skiep, Keith helped me a ton when I was trying out the Schnitz fin. Even sent me his jig and paid postage. I miss seeing him at tournaments. Always just a great guy and pleasure to be around.
  9. I saw where you stated "in a left turn". Have you tried taking the motor box off and the floorboard behind the engine. While idling at the dock turn the steering wheel full left and full right. Any backfire's? I'd be looking for the steering linkage pinching something or rubbing something. Maybe simulate a pass through the course with someone watching the fuel lines and electrical with motor box off? Good luck, Ken
  10. I'm a long time Brenda rope user. In-Tow ropes are the best! Tried them all over the years. Used to break Overton rope's regularly. I've never seen an issue with Brenda's ropes nor handles. I've let several members in our club that swore they could break any rope use mine and they always lost that battle. Quite fun to watch too. I used to "love" the Straight line handle's, but when Brenda started making her Spectra handles I've totally forgot about Straight line. I can tell when my In-Tow rope needs to be replaced when it start's feeling like a steel cable. I usually change my rope's every year. Beside's if you keep skiing on the old rope your elbow's and shoulders will start to ache. Brenda will make you a rope anyway you like. Her loops are the best, and dealing with her is so easy. I've called her several times, and she always listen's very well and it's always "no problem". She can get backed up alittle bit due to supply and demand, but she has been and is great to do business with.
  11. @patmaster, I'm with you. I can run 28 on my death bed now, but 32 still kick's me in the tail. And my PB is 2@35 as well. From what I can tell, is I'm always coached that I ski 32 to aggressively. What ever that means? I'm slowly getting some clues that I do find myself over turning and going flat through the wakes. And my edge changes end up suffering. For me, I believe it comes down to lack of water time. I've had enough coaching(too much probably). I can run 32 when I'm calm and in practice. Tournaments, well the 4 ball monster seem's to rear his ugly head. So now it's just time behind the boat. Good luck
  12. Guy's, there is a much simpler solution here and officer friendly can help solve. Simply put a radar gun on the boat. Problem solved, this would show ANY speed variance through out the course. Forget about timing zones, I think it's absolutely ridiculous anyways for the boat to race to the next timing buoy just to keep time. I personally don't believe it's ever been a horsepower, torque, transmission, and or prop issue to maintain speed. We all are searching for that feel. Maybe since ZO has helped us zero in on our tolerances we are ready for a radar/lazer speed tracking system? Then the scorer could have a readout with them as well just like a policeman running a speed trap.
  13. @JonB, I agree. @Drago, I agree as well. Good points. My question is and Jody Seal can probably answer this one, but why do boat's use "stock off the shelf" motor's? Remember a few year's ago when skiflying was a deal they had that SN with the blower on it. I heard horsepower number's of 500 floating around. That's very conservative for a blower motor, but it shown that for that event they were willing to do pretty simple hp upgrade. There are several way's to make cheap, reliable horsepower & torque way above the stock engines used in our boats yesterday, today, and future. And without blowers or turbo's, I just for the life of me can't figure out why we don't leverage it if it's truly needed? Hence the Malibu Hammerhead option. Which if I remember correctly was a simply stroked 350 to a 383 with a mild came. Cheap and easy.
  14. I'm sorry guy's but I have to stop lurking and throw the BALONY flag here. Horsepower has been available since the 50's. And I've seen just as wicked throttle response from carburetors as anything. We just like to live in the land of pretend for some strange reason? I was raised with a father that drag raced in the late 50's and early 60's. I've seen 289 ford's that you would not want to get behind. For the life of me I've never understood why we pretend that only this "new" crop of motor's is the only available horsepower around and or the only motors that can manage a torque curve? Our boat's run either 34 or 36 mph which is a consistent RPM piece of cake for a real motor. It's the RPM band that's the tricky part(and still is). I've seen and done either advancing the cam or retarding it to move the RPM band not a big deal. For a real motor to hold 3,000 RPM or more, c'mon piece of cake! You just probably wouldn't like to ski behind it for the same reason's Bruce and Gator mentioned above. I'm just an average skier, due to I just cannot afford water time much anymore. My PB is only 2@35 not earth shattering. I weigh about 180lbs. In 06' or 07' I skied behind a Malibu with a 385hp Hammerhead motor with Perfect Pass. I was thinking that it would rip my arms off, the swim deck was pounding at idle but the pull felt just like the 340hp Monsoon of another friend of mine. Gator nailed it, when it all comes down to it we do not want a "Dead on" pull. We want ZO to give us 12 different mapping options to cheat/feel the pull of the boat. Don't mis-understand me I want them as well, but horsepower and or torque has never been the problem. I wish I could afford the water around here once again, and I with all of you want that old hand driver from years past as well, but at the end of the day we are not looking for a stronger motor, we want to manipulate the pull. oh yeah, and stay in tollerance. :)
  15. There's countless aftermarket parts for the 351 windsor. Probably as much for a chevy 350. However, Eric's point would keep me from using aluminum heads. This website www.summitracing.com has a TON of things you can do to that motor. I like the TrickFlow heads, I also like the AFR heads, you also cannot go wrong with the edelbrock heads either. Summit's website has alot more for your motor as well. Very easy motor to work on and add as much power to it as you'd ever want. Shane makes a good point too, your going to start spending good money after bad pretty quickly. That would go for a ford or a chevy. Good Luck, Ken
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