Ole Raunchy

This boat purchase started out at the CT mini when I was talking with Reid about my jealousy of Chris Mars and his 1972 Promo boat purchase. I really love the orange on orange look and Reid mentioned he had a skier that fit my desires. A 302 Homan Moody happened to be powering the boat which made it that much more appealing. I told him there that I would love to purchase the boat if it had not been spoken for yet.

So Tim and I made our way down to the reunion in NC and brought back Ole Raunchy. The boat made it safely back to
NJ. This makes CC #4 at the old Malibu dealership, taking over! Rauchy has had two voyages out on Lake Hopatcong.

The first one went well. Figured out the alternator was not working. Semi fixed that by using the questionable alternator off of my 289 out of the 68 mustang. Also replaced the shaft packing so we wouldn't sink.

Second trip went well on the way there but on the way home the impeller decided to give out. Which other than having to get towed in by a coworker who was out to dinner with us in a different boat. The seal on the backside of the pump was leaking anyway so it just expedited the process of rebuilding the pump. The impeller is the same as a Volvo impeller. The love joy needs to be replaced, the seal and we are going to do bearings out of maintenance thanks to Gary's suggestion and feeling a little bit of grinding with the shaft rotating by hand.

Tonight we took off the non original swim platform and the flappers on the tips. Temporary plans are to put bolts back in the holes with gaskets until our season of boating.

Future plans are: wetsanding, rebuilding bucket seats, new vinyl, white pinstripe, original style rub rail, closer to period specific gauges, and a RH 383. I've had the 383 for my Cuda SS project which the hull is going to Cuda Chris. The 289 in my mustang is not original and its LH so it's got to go. The 302 HM will fit nicely under the motor box where the 383 would not. The 383 will however fit nicely under the 72 skier box and will also go nicely with the 71C we rebuilt this summer from the 68 mustang. Motor parts are coming together. Grabbed a set of aluminum manifolds last week that had a leak in the casting plugs. Plan is to reweld them. They're perfect candidates for rewelding and they came as a courtesy of a customer replacing these with new ones.

I love this boat and it will be a beautiful little boat when finished!!

Nice photos. Gotta love low bridges...the echo of an old V8 rumbling under a low bridge can't be beat, with the added bonus of irritating the crap out of the fisherman who (at least on Oconee) like to tie up to the bridge frame supports like it's their own private fishing spot.....

Love the big Smiles....She looks GREAT on you!

Steve

Lookin good Eric! The last 2 pictures make it look like you have already wet sanded,I'm sure when you done sanding and polishing it will really stand out. You can see why I told you to do the bearing while your in there,it's so close! What is the story about the name? Obviously the PO but just wondering.

PS the rubber coupler you are looking for is called a spider,I get mine at a local farm store,so if you have something like that check there.

what is that bearing?

double row ball bearing

Glad to see Ole Raunchy found a good home! Can't wait to see how that orange comes back!

Aluminum would be the correct material wouldn't it? Still expensive, but not like SS.

Bruce that right? Im glad to hear its Aluminum. I gotta say that rubrail on your boys barracuda looks shinier than aluminum!!!

wakeboardin2k4 wrote: I gotta say that rubrail on your boys barracuda looks shinier than aluminum!!!

Aluminum polishes up nicely.

Now before people freak out. The plans for these manifolds are obviously with the 383 I have. They will be stripped of their paint, hot tanked and cleaned with a chevy bowtie emblem welded in place of the malibu emblem which will be ground off.

These manifolds are aluminum and a similar design to the ones they use now on motors up to 555hp. They should flow sufficiently and they cost me nothing more than some time to get them up and running again.

turningpoint84 wrote: What is the rub rail currently made out of? Is it painted black, or is that rubber?

Rubber



Thoughts on that rubrail?

If they look like crap, ill sell them and get more period specific ones, but for now with them being free manifolds. They're going to stick around so I can spend money in other places. IE reverse rotation roller cam.

TRBenj wrote: I bet you could sell those manifolds (once repaired) for more than it would cost for a brand new set of PCM cast irons. I think those ETX's would look a little silly in green... no one would be fooled into thinking those were original manifolds, so sort of missing the point of a period correct color scheme (ie, SLEEPER!). I dont think you'd be missing many hp going to the cast irons in such an overpowered boat anyways. Heck, I might even know someone who would be interested in those ETX's. RR roller + BW 1:1 would be hawt.

I dont plan to make it look like a sleeper, definitely different and probably not period specific. But the nice thing about accessories like these....they can get changed out over time

RR roller 383 and 1:1 will be very cool. I gotta talk to joe about where he got his cam and what kind of CR they are playing with on his

Or stfu and let the guy do whatever he wants?? Mr super prick today! I just want that pipe back from Iowa.