HOWDY: RB Thanks for the post...The lake I'm on when my son in law posted the video

is the lake we've lived on since 1965. It's about 500 acres,made up by two lakes Upper & Lower

PHANTOM..They are in the village of MUKWONAGO , Wisconsin. (30 mi.S.W. of Milwaukee)

I-43 & HWY-83.. If ever your in the area,give me a call and we'll take he out for s ride...

Slaphappy: (262) 363-7212 But wait till the lake melts!

slaphappy

Thanks for checking in Slaphappy. As you can see by the thread, we have enjoyed the video.



What lake were you on?



Thank your son-in-law for the effort . We corresponded and he promised a version with out music dubbed in so we can listen to the real music being made by the Y Block

Thanks for all the info, you've cleared up a lot of questions.   welcome to the site!

   God Bless.   Tim                           http://yblockguy.com/

350ci Y-Block FED "Elwood", 301ci Y-Block Unibody LSR "Jake", 312ci Y-Block '58 F-100, 338ci Y-Block powered Model A Tudor

tim@yblockguy.com  Visalia, California    Just west of the Sequoias

Howdy; I'm the new guy on the block and was advised by my son in law that he put

my crackerbox boat video on utube. I looked and sure nuff he did. This boat was built

in 1957-the engine was taken out of a totaled 57 bird with 1200 miles on the speedo but

was never installed in the boat. The builder was transferred to new job sites around the country.

The boat was kept in storage till he retired. He lost interest and sold it to me and I hauled it to

it's present home in Wisconsin and finished the install job on all the boxed up parts land launched

for the first in the fall of 2008. The engine was mounted level to the stringers, fly wheel forward

and the V-drive was changed to a Z-drive at a 11 deg. shaft angle. The strut was also a 11 deg.

and mounted to the keel and use as a bushing to bore the shaft hole. The rudder is outboard of

the transom. This boat is a real crowd pleasing item..I never found so many Y-block gear heads

ogle this boat motor before even at the T-Bird car club show..Thanks for the U-tube review.

Slaphappy

slaphappy

Nope.  Different Danno. 

I like old loud fast things...especially my wife.

Danno,

Are you the Danno that was on a job at Mirant power in Dickerson, MD?

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

And Frank,

Thanks for the response.  I'm going to try the 450 of the Holley marine flavor.

I like old loud fast things...especially my wife.

Hi Nick,

I saw your rooster tail video last summer and that sparked my interest as to the strange boats in my neighbor's yard (one of which I now own).  I didn't mean my boat was the first one in North America, just that Buehler (and Dowty) were the first production jets.  I was expecting to find a 272 or 292, but when I checked the numbers, it is a 256 from 1960 and the fuel tank is stenciled 1960.  I've seen only one other tail peice like mine in many months of searching and trying to indentify it and finally ran across a gentleman who worked at Indiand Gear Works on the marine production line and he told me that they had a company in Ohio cast this tailpeice and tested it and decided not to use it in production due to the vane bearings getting clogged with sand.  He seems to recall it as a test boat.  It's number is E 0074.  I love this thing and plan to use it all summer as our lake is now no longer drought stricken.  I'm new to these things and any info you can provide would be greatly appreciated (such as the whereabouts of a pair of Interceptor Marine exhaust manifolds and a gas cap).

Thanks,

Dan

I like old loud fast things...especially my wife.

ROYCE, WHY WOULD I STOP YOU. I THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE A Y BLOCK BOAT, SO I CAN COME UP AND RIDE IN IT!! I HAVE A 368 LINCOLN WITH 2 FOURS AND A PAXTON SUPER CHARGER. JUST THINKING HOW BIG A BOAT I WOULD NEED TO KEEP THAT IRON MONSTER FROM SINKING. TOM

  JUST A MIDNIGHT CRUISE DOWN THUNDER ROAD!!! TOM DRUMMOND MIDWEST DIRECTOR 57 FORD INTERNATIONAL

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nickjar2&search_type=&aq=f

Hi Dan

Just to get the facts straight.....The First Production Jet Boats in North America were built in 1959....In Canada....Dowty Turbocraft.....272 Ford Interceptor Y Block....In America....1959 Buehler Turbocraft.....292 Ford Interceptor

Check out my Turbocrafts and have fun on your boat once you get it done.....Enjoy

                                                                Nick