Hi, I finally got my Chris Craft in the water yesterday, after a year almost to the day when I bought it. I had run the motors before, to make sure everything worked. Started up yesterday, let them warm up, got them off the high idle, backed out of the slipway, all is good. I run it for 15 minutes just checking that every thing is good, run it up to 2600 rpms for about a minute, turn around and dock it at the slip.
Anyway my question is this, the boat originally had crusader 270's, I swapped out the long blocks with new 350 cid crate motors that was marinized by a shop in Florida. I want to check the timing of the motors to be sure they are correct. The originally crusader plates are still on the bell housings, can I use those values as a starting point? The starboard engine seems not to have the quick start like the port motor. They both start very easy, just concerned as I had to disturb the starboard distributer during install. Even tho I marked it and seems right, better to check now.
I found online a spec for carb crusader was to be 26 degrees at 4000 rpm, is this value more important then the initial timing say 12 degrees btc?
Thanks
little video showing startup
http://s765.photobucket.com/albums/xx295/sammywell2009/?action=view¤t=IMG_0215.mp4
Anyway my question is this, the boat originally had crusader 270's, I swapped out the long blocks with new 350 cid crate motors that was marinized by a shop in Florida. I want to check the timing of the motors to be sure they are correct. The originally crusader plates are still on the bell housings, can I use those values as a starting point? The starboard engine seems not to have the quick start like the port motor. They both start very easy, just concerned as I had to disturb the starboard distributer during install. Even tho I marked it and seems right, better to check now.
I found online a spec for carb crusader was to be 26 degrees at 4000 rpm, is this value more important then the initial timing say 12 degrees btc?
Thanks
little video showing startup
http://s765.photobucket.com/albums/xx295/sammywell2009/?action=view¤t=IMG_0215.mp4