Drooling over boat (LowAC), was old gas thread

[Brady Moffatt]

I'm very jealous! Your boat is GORGEOUS!! With an inline 6, too. Hmmm. I
know that there are some boats floating around with Datsun (my other
disease) inline 6 engines.

Anybody ever seen/heard of Audi I5 powered boats?

Ever been to the antique boat museum in Clayton,NY on the Thousand Islands?
Lots of wooden speedboats/runabouts. GarWoods, Chris Crafts, Hackers, etc.
http://www.abm.org/

Cheers,
Brady Moffatt
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
86 4ksq, 280,000km
72 Datsun 240Z, 180,000 miles

----- Original Message -----
From: <David.Ullrich at ferguson.com>
To: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Friday, February 08, 2002 4:40 AM
Subject: RE: When does gasoline get old?


My extreme case is from my boat. Anyway, the boat had been in storage for
over 5 years when I got a hold of her. She's an old Century Thunderbolt.
Anyway the gas in the tank was over 5 years old, and I had no idea whether
the carbs had been run dry or put away wet. This boat has no real exhaust
system, just 6 brass pipes that go directly from the block to the outside of
the boat. It doesn't even have a real exhaust manifold. Anyway, I charged up
the battery, and cranked her up. After about a full minute of cranking, she
fired up! I was shocked! Ran like crap, and the exhaust smelled TERRIBLE!
And it looked like somebody had set off a dozen smoke bombs at once, but it
ran. I ran her up and down the river until she was almost on empty then
filled her up with 105 racing fuel, and carb cleaner. Purred like a kitten!
Well, maybe not a kitten, more like an angry lion...have you heard an inline
6 with no exhaust system at WOT? Eek! It made those girly men in those ugly
loud cigarette boats look over... Oh, a pic of them boat in question can be
see here: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Speedway/2668/thunder.JPG
;)

Dave
1987 Coupe GT 2.3
1998 VW Passat 1.8T mit UPsolute (for sale)