1990 BFN

phatsat67 wrote: Growing out my corona beard and will shave into mustache when finished with the BFN.

Great looking work Zach,it sure is a surprise when your trying to sand the black spec off and it keeps getting bigger. You have a long way to go with the stash though Hollywood been working a long time on his



Dave you old timer do you remember the Correct Craft Dealer in Cary?

I just remembered I had the 1990 CC brochure in my collection of car, truck, motorcycle, and boat "stuff". I also just remembered seeing a quote from Randy O'Malia on this boat in that brochure. I can't remember what I had for breakfast, but, I can remember seeing quotes from 30 year old brochures. :)

Either way you must bring the mustache back to complete the restoration.

Love the pic with the Before and after gel. When you talk about thin spots that’s a sign of resolve. Maybe a time to get a waterline cover if you’re gonna leave it outside at all. Can’t wait to see the photos with new decals and pinstripe. This site is like one of those reality TV restoration shows except we don’t have to wait for the big finish—we get to see all of the wonder that goes on beforehand.

OK guys, here with the virus/working from home I thought I would take a little time to update the BFN project. While it was a very nice starting point the Gel was in much worse shape than originally thought.

We spent this winter sanding and buffing rubrail down to the chines. Photos below of before and after stuff. We took it down to many aggressive 320 passes to get all the yellowing out of the blue. Some still on the stbd but you can't really see it in natural light. Would have continued on but I found a thin spot in the blue on the port and didn't want to continue sanding aggressively.

Since it was the "Brochure" scheme for 1990 we stuck with the grey/white decal theme. I was able to get the colors of the pin stripes matched exactly and got a company to do a run of the proper sized pinstripe although it cost me.

The transmission had very dirty neutral but otherwise operated flawlessly. The plan was to throw in clutches and seals but I happened upon a supposed new old stock 72c locally. Cool story behind it. The owner (now 85 years old) was building California style V drive boats back in the mid to late 70s. He never built the last boat that someone had ordered and the transmission was never installed or painted etc. I cleaned it up and swapped the pump for RH rotation. We just fired it up this weekend with no dirty neutral and it goes out of gear perfectly fine. A test drive will tell the full story but it sounds good as is!

Despite the looks and the transmission condition we put somewhere around 80-100 hours on it last season so it is getting some good use. Matter of fact, the brown 85 didn't even touch the water last season.

Anywho, check out then progress photos below.

Zach, nice find! You'll enjoy it for sure.
A side question, did that BFN you guys had at N3 ever get the 409 swap a few years back? If so how'd it turn out?

Thanks guys! It will be ready to play hard this summer!
I think I was was the phone call right before Zach and secured it!

John, (JDD33) ,

That is a great looking boat you picked up last spring. Very Nice.

Donald

My half arsed tranny "rebuild" is doing fine! Im too dumb to test the pump with a lawnmower, tho.....

Marinetex and good to go.

She's a beauty Clark.

I want one.

jbear wrote: phatsat67 wrote: one extra I ripped in half. "pics or it didn't happen" Haha! john

Well done

8122pbrainard wrote: KENO wrote: SNobsessed wrote: Ken - Do you get the pulley lined up within .003? Probably within 3 inches anyways. Pete would be proud of my alignment job Rubber belt with a little twist of sorts, it's a good thing I don't have to run it very long to check pressures. Transmission angle is a little funny too, to get things lined up pretty close. Chris, Here's Ken's guide to his 3" alignment.

It's a combination of all 3 of those pictures

And the pulleys are fairly ugly and rusty too

phatsat67 wrote: The motor runs exceptionally well despite having a locked distributor timing mechanism.

Nope, I'd say it's the advance that's frozen.