hullofjustis

I am redoing an 86 scarab panther that when i bought was a running bot and it ran well, but because i can't leave anythin alone and engine room floor/hull starting to delaminate in small area or should say thought was a small area, i removed the engines and trs assembly's and ended up replacing transon and stringers to the gas tank bulkhead. So with doing that i am convrting to bravo's with 3 up imco extension boxes and with the drives propshafts being 3 3/4" below the bottom and with -2 imco drives will be at 1 3/4" below the hull. This has made interesting for exhaust fitment. So after transom and stringers were done the bottom was redone. I am now getting ready to assemble the blocks with cms racing engines. Twin 502 ci 600hp a piece. My question is, has anyone played with prop rotation. I know trs can only spin one direction in forwad but anyone who has a bravo panther and have messed with props spinning in or out could you let me know your results please. Great work with all your panthers they look great!!!
Thanks
hullofjustis

sonicss42

You'll be happy with Tony@CMS. He is a straight shooter.

hullofjustis

Tony Is a good friend. he does amazing work. He Has built a couple motors for me and a few blower motors for a friend and we have never had any failures.

MILD THUNDER

Jeremy stop beating around the bush and just put some darn blowers on those things!

Rookie

Update:
So I finally got out to the shop and started tearing down 1 of the mills. Apparently I am a month behind on my timeline. It appears that the pistons are ~0.007"-0.010" in the hole. I couldn't find the dial indicator or depth mic. I will get a more accurate measurement later this week.

It also it appears that I had a little reversion in this engine. It's hard to believe that it could pull water ~3' through dry to the tip Stainless Marine TRS tails. Another good reason for the cam swap.

And the Isky solid roller lifters are looking great

Rookie

It appears the pistons are 0.014" in the hole. I pulled #2 main cap to check the bearings. They show some some witness of some wear in the middle. Nothing that I can feel.

Rookie

The cam looks good also.

I didn't use a cam retaining plate and the button on the front of the cam wore down pretty good. It was walking forward into the timing chain cover.

acaruso

I have seen his work &I was not impressed PS no professional courtsey

Rookie

WTF? Whose work are you referring to?

Twin O/B Sonic

that? Evidence of water? How about head gaskets??
Hard to tell from the pix's but everything looks squeaky clean to me.