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Old 05-30-2020, 08:00 AM
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How are you feeding cooling water to the engine?
Do you mean into the block? We start with antifreeze in a bucket. Inlet and outlet are both in the same bucket. Engine gets up to warm quickly because we are recirculating the antifreeze. When the temp gauge starts to go up and down at about 160 we switch the inlet to a bucket of water. When the outlet runs clear we shut it down.
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That will work - but wow that is complex. I just hit start
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Fired the A4 up today. Boat still on the hard so no real opportunity to give it a good run.

Felt great - launch this week.

Have a great season all!

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Old 06-21-2020, 11:55 AM
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June 11 was the first Sea trial after an engine swap.
Yesterday was our first sail
Today will be our second sail
Happy Fathers Day
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