Happy New Years to everyone on the forum ! Looking forward to meeting more of you 2015 !!
Happy New Years
Reflection of 2014
| Reflection of 2014 12/31/2014 0 Comments The boating Bekemeyer family has enjoyed a good year and looking back we feel very blessed. We started out a year ago wanting to create a website to encourage and inform fellow boaters and we’ve kept our commitment and blogged fifty-two weeks through the year. Yeah for reaching our goal! We’ve heard back that our posts have been helpful and enjoyable to a lot of followers and we’re happy to have helped. We’ve enjoyed the time spent as a family and the memories that were made on our beautiful lakes of central Florida. New ventures were taken by us as we co-sponsored our first boating event with our Back to School Poker Run. We gained a lot of knowledge and hope to do an even better job this year and bless another local school with much needed supplies. It was my first year attending and supporting the Toys for Tots Tour but hopefully not my last, no more boys only weekend Momma’s on board now. As we get our new Suburban all fixed up for towing us to new destinations we can’t wait to venture out to explore new spots and report back. There are lots to come from Adventure in Boating we’re only getting started and the future looks bright. Change is in the works and we can hardly contain our excitement. As you reflect on this past year we hope your look forward to your next adventure in boating too. Happy days with sunshine and sprays ahead! |
Reflection of 2014
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Keep your comments to yourself, if you have a title for sale pm me, thanks
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A Song to Irritate Our Liberal Friends
And I use the term "friend" loosely.
Happy New Year! :partyguy:
Happy New Year! :partyguy:
A Song to Irritate Our Liberal Friends
anyone recomend a good machine shop close to canyon lake
I need to upgrade my keyway on my crank as well as my drive hub or damper. Have a stock key on the crank and a single 1/4'' on my drive hub. Also have a professional products powerforce neutrally balanced damper with a stock key, so I have two options on setting this up. Thanks
anyone recomend a good machine shop close to canyon lake
Tom Papp Edge Stealth 1997
Boat for sale less motor.Used as race boat,located on east coast,jetway,popoff 13500.00 Still trying to load pics.804 514 0179
Tom Papp Edge Stealth 1997
1980 Youngblood TX-19 Gullwing TURN KEY! Located in Connecticut $9,500
1980 Youngblood TX -19 with a Built 468 Chevy Big Block.
It is an ORIGINAL Youngblood!
Recently overhauled Dominator Pump (American Turbine Aluminum A/B With Mag Bronze Wear Ring)
Interior is MINT!
Boat is very fast and turn key!
Please call 860 303 0141 Aaron
1980 Youngblood TX19 BBC Jet Boat
It is an ORIGINAL Youngblood!
Recently overhauled Dominator Pump (American Turbine Aluminum A/B With Mag Bronze Wear Ring)
Interior is MINT!
Boat is very fast and turn key!
Please call 860 303 0141 Aaron
1980 Youngblood TX19 BBC Jet Boat
1980 Youngblood TX-19 Gullwing TURN KEY! Located in Connecticut $9,500
"2014"
If you have anything you'd like to do in 2014 ... You've got about 16 1/2 hours to get it done.
"Happy New Year"
"Happy New Year" "2014"
Billet Pillow Blocks wanted.
Where can I find some replacement pillow blocks? Billet or anodized black?
Billet Pillow Blocks wanted.
Engine wtb placecraft 19ft tunnel boat cover
looking for a good boat cover for my 1999 Placecraft Tunnel hull? I'm located in Lake Havasu call Wally at 928-486-1787
Engine wtb placecraft 19ft tunnel boat cover
WTB Neovane water pump
looking for a Neovane water pump anybody have one laying around? thanks.
WTB Neovane water pump
Looking for 2 blade 15 pitch prop
Would like to have a spare...something around 11 1/2" diameter but let me know what ya got. Posted in the parts section as well.
For 1" shaft - left hand rotation
Thanks.
Jayson - 562-650-7955
For 1" shaft - left hand rotation
Thanks.
Jayson - 562-650-7955
Looking for 2 blade 15 pitch prop
WTB 2 blade 15 pitch prop
Would like to have a spare...something around 11 1/2" diameter but let me know what ya got. Posted in v-drive section as well.
For 1" shaft - left hand rotation
Thanks.
Jayson - 562-650-7955
For 1" shaft - left hand rotation
Thanks.
Jayson - 562-650-7955
WTB 2 blade 15 pitch prop
Going Places II ???
This is a question for all the jet boat guru's on here??
Why doesn't "Going Places II" get ANY recognition on here???
they were pioneers of jetboat technology...
they ran 183.86mph with an ET of 6.69...
I understand that they never backed it up...
considering the time period they ran this...
I am sure thy held some records for some time...
again...I would like to know...
WHY??? Nobody talks about,"Going Places II"???
Why doesn't "Going Places II" get ANY recognition on here???
they were pioneers of jetboat technology...
they ran 183.86mph with an ET of 6.69...
I understand that they never backed it up...
considering the time period they ran this...
I am sure thy held some records for some time...
again...I would like to know...
WHY??? Nobody talks about,"Going Places II"???
Going Places II ???
86 Fineline Hydro in South Carolina
Thinking about selling my 86 Fineline Hydro. It is a Pro Gas layup with:
10 degree Casale V-drive and a set of 45 gears
1 1/8 prop shaft
5 props
Lenco clutch and 2 speed trans (25 split)
BBC motor plates
several fuel tanks
road trailer and cover
Glass and stringers are in great shape, fresh white paint. Bought it to run PE or QE but getting back into 1/8 mile asphalt racing. Would rather see it get used than sit in my shed. If you are interested, contact me privately.
michaellone at hotmail
http://s191.photobucket.com/user/michaellone/library/Fineline
10 degree Casale V-drive and a set of 45 gears
1 1/8 prop shaft
5 props
Lenco clutch and 2 speed trans (25 split)
BBC motor plates
several fuel tanks
road trailer and cover
Glass and stringers are in great shape, fresh white paint. Bought it to run PE or QE but getting back into 1/8 mile asphalt racing. Would rather see it get used than sit in my shed. If you are interested, contact me privately.
michaellone at hotmail
http://s191.photobucket.com/user/michaellone/library/Fineline
86 Fineline Hydro in South Carolina
Hydrastar Electric over Hydraulic Brake Actuators
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To view are full product line visit our sites:
www.cargobrake.com and http://www.hydrastarmarine.com
or gives a call with any questions: (513) 202-0369
To view are full product line visit our sites:
www.cargobrake.com and http://www.hydrastarmarine.com
or gives a call with any questions: (513) 202-0369
Hydrastar Electric over Hydraulic Brake Actuators
Ca passes boat licencing for operators
lundi 29 décembre 2014
BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU!!!!
I guess Havasu will be more busy this summer!!!
I guess Havasu will be more busy this summer!!!
Ca passes boat licencing for operators
Wtb
BBC V-drive oil pan. nothing special, its for a gen 4 bbc that is going in a family cruiser. Also a trans oil cooler. P.M. with what you have.
Wtb
12x36 Enco Lathe
Just upgraded bto a new Lather , selling out 12x36 Enco for $2900.00 call for details Tom 805 466 4719
12x36 Enco Lathe
Obama Makes Bride Move Wedding
What an arrogant ass.
Bush waited until after Christmas to take his vacation so that his security detail could enjoy Christmas with their families. This ass makes a bride move her weeding because he wanted to play golf. They had to have booked a year in advance.
Even worse are the comments from the blind sheep.
Barack Obama, wedding crasher - Kendall Breitman - POLITICO
Bush waited until after Christmas to take his vacation so that his security detail could enjoy Christmas with their families. This ass makes a bride move her weeding because he wanted to play golf. They had to have booked a year in advance.
Even worse are the comments from the blind sheep.
Barack Obama, wedding crasher - Kendall Breitman - POLITICO
Obama Makes Bride Move Wedding
Jason Riley
On Fox News Sunday in case anyone missed it. If there was ever a true leader for the blacks to pay attention to, this is the guy...
Jason Riley
Addictor For Sale
1988 Addictor 333 Bambino,
Nissan 30 HP Motor, Runs great, Electric start, New Prop, 5 Gal Fuel Tank, New Bimini,
Registered thru 12/31/15, Permanent Trailer Tag, New LED trailer lights
Preservers, Pillows, Oar, Flag & tool box included
Ready for the Water!!
$2,500 O.B.O...
714-630-1141
Leave Email for pictures...
Nissan 30 HP Motor, Runs great, Electric start, New Prop, 5 Gal Fuel Tank, New Bimini,
Registered thru 12/31/15, Permanent Trailer Tag, New LED trailer lights
Preservers, Pillows, Oar, Flag & tool box included
Ready for the Water!!
$2,500 O.B.O...
714-630-1141
Leave Email for pictures...
Addictor For Sale
CO-OK-TX v-drive shop recomendation
I am near Denver, CO. I need a v-drive garage recommendation. I am willing to travel. Any one know any quality shops in my area? I need to move my motor forward and realign, possible spline shaft setup. I might want to change my steering to a cable setup also. I have thought about having a local drag car builder align the motor and casale drive, but it just doesn't seem like a good idea, what do you guys think.
Thanks
Thanks
CO-OK-TX v-drive shop recomendation
Dyno
Had my engine dyno'd and looked good when done in 500rpmincrements, 850hp @ 5500 rpm and 890 hp @ 6000 rpm. But when he did the test in100 rpm increments the hp #s were all down below 800 hp? He said it was notaccurate @ 100 rpm increments. Why would this be?
Dyno
1979 Hondo GT
Recent restoration - 468 BBC, hardware powder coated and polished, rebuilt v-drive with whirlaway, 1 1/4 shaft, fresh paint on trailer. $15K. PM for pictures - can't seem to upload.
1979 Hondo GT
Vdrive daycruiser value
Could I get some help with a value on this boat less engine needs upholstery and carpet
Vdrive daycruiser value
Eng. Parts WTB BBC Block
I'm in need of a bare 454 4 bolt block. I would prefer std. bore but at this point, I will consider over bores depending on condition. I need to get busy on this build if I'm gonna make it to the water this Summer. The closer to the Central Valley, the better.
Have cash in hand. What have you got?
Thanks.
Have cash in hand. What have you got?
Thanks.
Eng. Parts WTB BBC Block
Southern California Index Racing
Yesterday I was lucky enough to sit down with a few racers and help hash out some rules and scheduling for a new index race at Barona Raceway in Lakeside CA. 5.50-6.00-6.50 classes in the 1/8th mile. Buy in is cheap and Payback is pretty darn good and should draw people from all over the south west once it starts rolling.
I know some of you boat guys also like to get down the pavement.
Check out the facebook page for rules and updates. Its a racers for the racers deal.
Southern California Index Racing Association
I know some of you boat guys also like to get down the pavement.
Check out the facebook page for rules and updates. Its a racers for the racers deal.
Southern California Index Racing Association
Southern California Index Racing
Just want to say Hi.
dimanche 28 décembre 2014
Fantastic information Thanks a lot!Feel free to surf to my webpage :: internet marketing (https://stereomoodteam.zendesk.com/)
Just want to say Hi.
Ever Heard of Warren Wilhelm Jr.?
Well, now you have:
Charleston Voice: NYC Comrade Mayor Bill de Blasio - the Reddest of the Reds
Damn POS commie motherf**ker!!! :|err
Charleston Voice: NYC Comrade Mayor Bill de Blasio - the Reddest of the Reds
Damn POS commie motherf**ker!!! :|err
Ever Heard of Warren Wilhelm Jr.?
We need to empathize with America's enemies.
Maybe we should start off by sending Hillary over to these animals.
Muslims Are Calling To Revive An Ancient Horrifying Execution Method Against U.S. Led Coalition Pilots - Walid Shoebat
Muslims Are Calling To Revive An Ancient Horrifying Execution Method Against U.S. Led Coalition Pilots - Walid Shoebat
We need to empathize with America's enemies.
Under 23' 1959 dual cockpit runabout for sale rare 14' inboard
samedi 27 décembre 2014
hey all- looking to sell my 1959 dial cockpit california flat bottom racer with ford V8- 14'
https://1959simcob.shutterfly.com
looking for best offer- in California clean title to boat and trailer-
https://1959simcob.shutterfly.com
looking for best offer- in California clean title to boat and trailer-
Under 23' 1959 dual cockpit runabout for sale rare 14' inboard
Mercury Bravo 1 Prop 22P RH
I have the above prop for sale. It came on my conquest, which I bought with 8 hours on it from the Lake Powell area. Never used it. Been sitting in my garage in Havasu. $250.
Regards, Steve
Regards, Steve
Mercury Bravo 1 Prop 22P RH
BBC Roller Rockers- Crane Gold
My brother bought this boat back around 2003 and replaced everything. I got a lot of the old parts off of it including these rockers. My brother drove this boat briefly before it spun a bearing.
I was saving them for my Chevelle, but I bought a complete engine that already has a set of good rockers. There's 13 of these stamped 335V, two stamped 737C and a single rocker stamped 9F72.
I'd like to see $80 bucks from the set. Locks are included. Jerry (951) 741-1346
I was saving them for my Chevelle, but I bought a complete engine that already has a set of good rockers. There's 13 of these stamped 335V, two stamped 737C and a single rocker stamped 9F72.
I'd like to see $80 bucks from the set. Locks are included. Jerry (951) 741-1346
BBC Roller Rockers- Crane Gold
Cheyenne race boats tom papp
I HAVE TWO TOM PAPP LIGHTWEIGHT RACE BOATS FOR SALE PLUS MANY HIGH END JET BOAT PARTS OWN TRUCKING COMPANY SHIPPING POSSIBLE BOATS 390lbs AND410lbs NO KICKERS CALL 860 463 4923
Cheyenne race boats tom papp
[For Sale] ssbc caliper 99-03 superduty excursion
Hello fellow boaters iam taking the plunge and doing a 4 link coilover conversion on my excursion so iam parting out parts from my front end.the first thing is a ssbc calipers red in color.this will git 99-03 superdities and 99-05 excusrions .The caliper is about a year old lots of life left on the pads.800$ I paid 1200$ iam in so cal can ship but on your dime I take paypal?there still on the vehicle just dirty and brake dust on them.thanks for looking
[For Sale] ssbc caliper 99-03 superduty excursion
Gibbs 3-blade stainless r/h 11 1/4 19 circle hydro prop
This is a prop I ran on my Six Liter circle hydro with a Casale gear box with up to 29% over drive. It is a Right Hand prop for a one inch tapered shaft with a 1/4 inch keyway.
It was last reworked by the late Jeff Wilson who added a lot of cup to the leading edge of the prop which made it very efficient, while keeping the lift to a minimum.
It has just been checked out, detailed, and polished by Hill Signature Propellers, so it is ready to run.
The prop is for sale at $650 with free shipping.
I can be contacted at [email] Doidgeracing@att.net or my cell 714 329 4840
Thanks for looking
Dan Doidge
It was last reworked by the late Jeff Wilson who added a lot of cup to the leading edge of the prop which made it very efficient, while keeping the lift to a minimum.
It has just been checked out, detailed, and polished by Hill Signature Propellers, so it is ready to run.
The prop is for sale at $650 with free shipping.
I can be contacted at [email] Doidgeracing@att.net or my cell 714 329 4840
Thanks for looking
Dan Doidge
Gibbs 3-blade stainless r/h 11 1/4 19 circle hydro prop
wtb: hyd place diverter with ftn
Wtb nice used hyd pd with fine tune nozzle
wtb: hyd place diverter with ftn
WTB BBF 460 headers
Looking for short or long tube. Rewarder or Bassett, show me what you got!
443-945-1812 text or call. Cash ready
443-945-1812 text or call. Cash ready
WTB BBF 460 headers
[Question] lenco trans
at what speed or rpm do you fellas feel good about putting a 2 speed lenco back in low gear?any damage to disc if put back too high a speed?better to stop or what works best---thanks in advance---grumpy:wtf:
[Question] lenco trans
Untrained, unpaid volunteers driving vehicles in presidential motorcade
Untrained, unpaid volunteers driving vehicles in presidential motorcade | Fox News
Even after a string of high-profile security incidents led the Secret Service to rethink how it patrols the White House grounds, the agency still takes what some see as a risky approach to the presidential motorcade -- relying on unpaid, untrained volunteers to drive some of the vehicles.
The New York Times reported Friday that volunteers "with no special training" are frequently used to drive vans, which hold journalists and White House staff members, in the middle of the presidential motorcade.
The vans typically are sandwiched between the sleek, bulletproof vehicles -- driven by Secret Service agents -- at the front of the motorcade, and the police cars and Secret Service ambulance at the back.
While those vehicles are piloted by highly trained agents and officers, security experts continue to worry that the often-young volunteers driving the vans in the middle pose a security risk.
"You are face to face with a young person who is just completely full of themselves and enthralled," former Secret Service agent Dan Emmett told the Times.
He said: "If the motorcade ever comes under fire, it's going to be a problem."
The practice of using volunteers to drive the vans apparently dates back to the 1980s. The Secret Service defended the practice, with a spokesman stressing that all drivers are "briefed" by an agent before driving.
"The motorcade has a police escort and typically there is no other traffic on the road at the time the presidential motorcade is moving," spokesman Edwin Donovan told Fox News, adding that the "secure package" of vehicles "is a separate entity and driven by Secret Service personnel."
Further, the spokesman told the Times that the president's vehicle and others could easily break off from the motorcade if necessary.
But others reportedly worry the volunteer drivers could cause problems and delays in an emergency.
Natalie Tyson, a 24-year-old grad student in the San Francisco area, told the Times how she was chosen for a motorcade driving gig -- someone she knew at the White House texted her to see if she wanted to do it. It was "kind of sudden," she said.
But Tyson said she got little instruction on what to do in an emergency. "Whatever I am is good enough for them," she told the Times.
The report follows a series of security incidents, most notably the Sept. 19 breach where an intruder jumped the White House fence, making it past several rings of security and inside the White House residence.
Director Julia Pierson resigned in the wake of the breach.
Even after a string of high-profile security incidents led the Secret Service to rethink how it patrols the White House grounds, the agency still takes what some see as a risky approach to the presidential motorcade -- relying on unpaid, untrained volunteers to drive some of the vehicles.
The New York Times reported Friday that volunteers "with no special training" are frequently used to drive vans, which hold journalists and White House staff members, in the middle of the presidential motorcade.
The vans typically are sandwiched between the sleek, bulletproof vehicles -- driven by Secret Service agents -- at the front of the motorcade, and the police cars and Secret Service ambulance at the back.
While those vehicles are piloted by highly trained agents and officers, security experts continue to worry that the often-young volunteers driving the vans in the middle pose a security risk.
"You are face to face with a young person who is just completely full of themselves and enthralled," former Secret Service agent Dan Emmett told the Times.
He said: "If the motorcade ever comes under fire, it's going to be a problem."
The practice of using volunteers to drive the vans apparently dates back to the 1980s. The Secret Service defended the practice, with a spokesman stressing that all drivers are "briefed" by an agent before driving.
"The motorcade has a police escort and typically there is no other traffic on the road at the time the presidential motorcade is moving," spokesman Edwin Donovan told Fox News, adding that the "secure package" of vehicles "is a separate entity and driven by Secret Service personnel."
Further, the spokesman told the Times that the president's vehicle and others could easily break off from the motorcade if necessary.
But others reportedly worry the volunteer drivers could cause problems and delays in an emergency.
Natalie Tyson, a 24-year-old grad student in the San Francisco area, told the Times how she was chosen for a motorcade driving gig -- someone she knew at the White House texted her to see if she wanted to do it. It was "kind of sudden," she said.
But Tyson said she got little instruction on what to do in an emergency. "Whatever I am is good enough for them," she told the Times.
The report follows a series of security incidents, most notably the Sept. 19 breach where an intruder jumped the White House fence, making it past several rings of security and inside the White House residence.
Director Julia Pierson resigned in the wake of the breach.
Untrained, unpaid volunteers driving vehicles in presidential motorcade
Just wanted to say What's Up to Everybody! (Lurking)
Hey guys,
Haven't been on here in a very long time. I'm super stoked to see alot of people from days past, still on here, and still progressing forward!
I haven't been on the water in my own boat since 2010. Regretfully, I bit off way more than I could chew when I purchased that Gullwing. BTW... HUGE thanks to EVERYBODY who helped me, took time to right me, and answered any questions I had. THANK YOU!
Thankfully, I have totally recovered finacially. Although I am not yet ready to throw coin at another boat just yet (scared the bottom might drop out again...thinking ahead this time:hmmm:) but I am getting close.
Anyways, I recently found a whole bunch of old videos from 2003 to 2012. Some of the footage is really bad but still kinda cool. Well, I'll let you guys tell me....
BTW...it's just Nate now a days. N8dawg was my boating name and well, I don't have a boat anymore. :(. LOL!!! Cheers!!!
Haven't been on here in a very long time. I'm super stoked to see alot of people from days past, still on here, and still progressing forward!
I haven't been on the water in my own boat since 2010. Regretfully, I bit off way more than I could chew when I purchased that Gullwing. BTW... HUGE thanks to EVERYBODY who helped me, took time to right me, and answered any questions I had. THANK YOU!
Thankfully, I have totally recovered finacially. Although I am not yet ready to throw coin at another boat just yet (scared the bottom might drop out again...thinking ahead this time:hmmm:) but I am getting close.
Anyways, I recently found a whole bunch of old videos from 2003 to 2012. Some of the footage is really bad but still kinda cool. Well, I'll let you guys tell me....
BTW...it's just Nate now a days. N8dawg was my boating name and well, I don't have a boat anymore. :(. LOL!!! Cheers!!!
Just wanted to say What's Up to Everybody! (Lurking)
Monterey ... Here we go!
vendredi 26 décembre 2014
BigSteve and I are getting a dive in before we travel south to scuba with Bully. Supposed to be a beautiful day, leaving Sacramento at 3am. Diving at San Carlos Beach.
Monterey ... Here we go!
allens fasteners..promo code??
Is there any promo codes for v-drive guys from the bolt nazi???? thanks Wally
allens fasteners..promo code??
Oaklahoma bound.
Darin and Mike..
drive safe and bing that beautiful V-drive back with ya'll
1974 Hondo XH-511 T-deck runnerbottom
drive safe and bing that beautiful V-drive back with ya'll
1974 Hondo XH-511 T-deck runnerbottom
Oaklahoma bound.
Kings river video
jeudi 25 décembre 2014
GET YOU GUYS PUMPED FOR A NEW YEAR OF V-DRIVEING.........
Kings river video
Eng. Parts WTB used set of Rylar 8.1 Litre Aluminum heads
Looking for a set of heads for a 8.1 litre 2003 chev vortec... used if possible
thanks
Dave
thanks
Dave
Eng. Parts WTB used set of Rylar 8.1 Litre Aluminum heads
Cleaning stained leather?
What does everyone use to clean leather seats that need cleaned badly?
Or if someone knows of something pros use.
Thanks in advance Merry Christmas!
Or if someone knows of something pros use.
Thanks in advance Merry Christmas!
Cleaning stained leather?
new pair of shoes
mercredi 24 décembre 2014
I question if he was really going to actually purchase the shoes with cash money he earned? And if the robbery just shifted with the location shoe inventory.
http://ift.tt/1CxttTW
http://ift.tt/1CxttTW
new pair of shoes
19.5' Scarab jet
Hey guys I was wondering if anyone has any info on these boats? I picked this up as a winter project with a dead 4.3l, I built a vortec 5.7 it and just dropped it in (tight squeeze!!) I cant find any info on the volvo pjx pump, it currently has a stock C impellor that i will try out when it warms up.
19.5' Scarab jet
[Pics] happy holidaze
Just want to wish everyone a merry xmas and happy new year,
With love from
The Prieto's
With love from
The Prieto's
[Pics] happy holidaze
Head Count Needed for GN7 Celebration of Life
I'll post a thread here, RDP. HB, V-drives and Ron Hill's site.
Please post up with the total number of folks in your party and do so at one site only.
Afternoon of Jannuary 31st, 2015 at
8812 Nogal Ave
Whittier, CA 90606
CampbellCarl - 2
Please post up with the total number of folks in your party and do so at one site only.
Afternoon of Jannuary 31st, 2015 at
8812 Nogal Ave
Whittier, CA 90606
CampbellCarl - 2
Head Count Needed for GN7 Celebration of Life
Obama’s nominee for Pentagon post implicated in alleged theft of CIA documents
Obama’s nominee for Pentagon post implicated in alleged theft of CIA documents
Merry Christmas from Straub Technologies......
This time of year is for reflection of year gone by. Cherish the memories of the ones that are with us no more and hug the ones that are still with us. Thoughts and prayers to the armed forces and the police departments that keep this great nation safe.
Merry Christmas to all
Chris and the Gang.
Merry Christmas to all
Chris and the Gang.
Merry Christmas from Straub Technologies......
Happy Holiday's
I wanted to wish all my friends and families of MHB a Happy Holiday Season:)
I hope to see you all out on the water this summer:)hand And to let a few of the outboard members drag me around the lake a few times....Oh how I miss those days:yes: cuts down on my fuel costs..
Have fun...I will back in the USA in March :) to:stir:
I hope to see you all out on the water this summer:)hand And to let a few of the outboard members drag me around the lake a few times....Oh how I miss those days:yes: cuts down on my fuel costs..
Have fun...I will back in the USA in March :) to:stir:
Happy Holiday's
Two miles from Fergeson...
Here we go again, only this time the dead guy pointed a gun at the cop that shot him dead...Details are slow coming, but what I heard was white cop, black dead guy... Gee, I wonder if the murders of cops in NYC had anything to do with the outcome here?? This one happened in a gas station so there should be video, of course the race baiters will ignore the facts as usual...
Ray
Ray
Two miles from Fergeson...
Anyone on the west side (Silverdale Area)
mardi 23 décembre 2014
My name is Brett. I own a 1979 witchcraft jet boat with 460F BBLK. I am looking for some one to tune up engine for me. Kind of know what is going on but I need more of an expertise. Please let me know if their is anyone around. Thank you.
Anyone on the west side (Silverdale Area)
someone please give me some answers
I bought this hydro from Alabama got it home to va started going through it come to find out it used to be vdrive. Well my thing is my title says home made and not factory hin plate. Can anybody tell me what the hell this thing is lol I would love to tell people what it is when they ask me instead of saying"I really don't know... But its fast" lol
someone please give me some answers
Seasons Greetings
Just wanted to wish all you and your families a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. :)hand
Dave:)
Dave:)
Seasons Greetings
Lost quite a few brothers and sisters in 2014
114 Police Killed on Duty in 2014; 46 Were Shot to Death | CNS News
This info probably shows on page 22 of a old news paper. One buddy on the list was an avid hot boater like us from years back.
This info probably shows on page 22 of a old news paper. One buddy on the list was an avid hot boater like us from years back.
Lost quite a few brothers and sisters in 2014
Liberal Jouurnalism is the fueling gasoline and holding the match!
As if deteriorating race relations needed any assistance to escalate, the liberal's so-called "news outlets" continue to irresponsibly mislead their readers/viewers by either fabricating news or simply not reporting all of the truth and facts. One example was 3 days after Ferguson and the CBS Evening News was reporting on the incident. In their 5 minutes of so-called new coverage, they never once mentioned that Michael Brown has just robbed a convenient store before being killed!
Most recently, a Baltimore TV station admits editing the chants by protestors from; “We won’t stop. We can’t stop ‘til killer cops are in cell blocks” to the repeated chants of "Kill a Cop". Granted, both chants are sickening and concerning, but IMO the real chant is not as offensive as the fabricated "Kill a Cop".
http://ift.tt/1t8K28D
So what is worse, the restless race based mobs who survive on the fruits of the government that despise, or the despicable liberal news outlets who exploit these mobs by fabricating lies which escalate these horrendous acts against our society. So which is worse, the race based mobs who are derived of ignorant people who can be "spooked and stampeded like cattle", and the college educated pseudo journalist who use their education and talents to seek out and destroy their political opposition at any and all cost? IMO this Baltimore POS news anchor should be arrested as an accomplice to murder and the FCC should suspend their license.
Liberal's, just in case you ever wondered, this is just one of the reasons why Conservatives have no respect for you or your kind. Liberals tend to live in the world of "ME" and Conservatives live in the world of "WE".....as in "We the People" :hmmm:
Most recently, a Baltimore TV station admits editing the chants by protestors from; “We won’t stop. We can’t stop ‘til killer cops are in cell blocks” to the repeated chants of "Kill a Cop". Granted, both chants are sickening and concerning, but IMO the real chant is not as offensive as the fabricated "Kill a Cop".
http://ift.tt/1t8K28D
So what is worse, the restless race based mobs who survive on the fruits of the government that despise, or the despicable liberal news outlets who exploit these mobs by fabricating lies which escalate these horrendous acts against our society. So which is worse, the race based mobs who are derived of ignorant people who can be "spooked and stampeded like cattle", and the college educated pseudo journalist who use their education and talents to seek out and destroy their political opposition at any and all cost? IMO this Baltimore POS news anchor should be arrested as an accomplice to murder and the FCC should suspend their license.
Liberal's, just in case you ever wondered, this is just one of the reasons why Conservatives have no respect for you or your kind. Liberals tend to live in the world of "ME" and Conservatives live in the world of "WE".....as in "We the People" :hmmm:
Liberal Jouurnalism is the fueling gasoline and holding the match!
Capsule
Kurtis Hydro capsule complete needs latch upgrades. 7500.00 contact GS Marine 951 272 6060
Capsule
Stainless Steel Plates
I have 2ea. 38"L X 13"W X 3/16" new stainless steel plates left over from a project. $200.00 for both. In Moorpark, Ca. (805) 432-5738. Thanks, Bobby
Stainless Steel Plates
Reggie Fountian
Reggie Fountian story come on at 2:30pm today channel 220 Direct Tv or NBC sports channel.
Reggie Fountian
10* Casale split case
10* Casale I have know idea what gears are in it, came out of a running boat, with mount and lock out handle
$800
I will get pics up later
(928)377-0553, Chris,
$800
I will get pics up later
(928)377-0553, Chris,
10* Casale split case
Steering cables
Found cables bad at quadrant who sells inner cables. It is a dual shielded cable set up?
Steering cables
Buying Gifts for the Boater.
| Buying Gifts for the Boater 12/23/2014 0 Comments Its crunch time two days to get that holiday shopping wrapped up and we’ve got some ideas for the avid boater in your life. Here’s our top last minute gift picks: 1. Boat detailing. Everybody loves a sparkly clean boat and a gift certificate for this service would be awesome! We prefer the guy who’s mobile he comes straight to you no leaving your boat a risk or hauling it somewhere. We know an excellent guy and he also does interior work (shoot us a message if you want his number) but you can also call your local boat marina, repair shop or supply store they always offer the service or have a contact. 2. A boater’s gift basket. You can get together a basket of goodies such as boat wash, wax, nice glass cleaner, soft brushes and shammy’s and maybe an additional gift card for boating supplies, gas or their favorite restaurant on the lake. 3. A boater’s get away. This is for the person who knows their boater well. Make reservations at their favorite place to stay by the water and treat them to a night’s stay and meals. This could also be in gift basket form with snacks, gift cards or certificates. If you don’t know a place check out the Mount Dora Inn, there’s a hotel in downtown Tavares along the water to name some local lakes but you can google and find some amazing stays along most any shore. If you boater has a large vessel be sure to pick larger bodies of water or check out the ramp situation to make sure it’s deep and can accommodate their boat again not a problem just google it. 4. Last but not least the plain old gift card it’s not flashy but it works. Bass Pro Shop gift cards is a great one we are not super fans of the bass fisherman due to experience, but the store has wonderful boating supplies from state of the art GPS systems, seats, anchors, lines, life jackets, hitches, stereo systems you name it they’ve got it. Other alternatives would be local marinas, boating supply shops and even Walmart carries boating supplies. Here locally there’s West Marine but again a quick click of the buttons on the computer and you can find your local vendors. We hope your family enjoys a very Merry Christmas and maybe this helps with the last minute gift crunch and that you treat your boater to many more Adventures in boating. P.S. Boater’s feel free to pass on this blog for gift ideas for you. ;) |
Buying Gifts for the Boater.
wtb: complete nice used dps inducer kit
A friend is looking for a nice used dps setup(inducer/spacer/key) and wondered if anyone had one laying around in great shape for sale?
wtb: complete nice used dps inducer kit
WTB 460 ford rewarder or gill marine short style headers
lundi 22 décembre 2014
looking for a set of either or let me know if anyone has some!!thanks
WTB 460 ford rewarder or gill marine short style headers
to all my usa mates
to all my usa mates, have a merry xmas and a great new year. dean barry
to all my usa mates
JE BBC 540 blower/turbo pistons
I have a set of JE flat top pistons that were in a turbo engine, 4.500" bore, 1.520 CH (I believe they are JE # 257975). One will need to be replaced due to some valve damage. $200 Glendora, CA
These work well in a tall deck with a .400" long rod
These work well in a tall deck with a .400" long rod
JE BBC 540 blower/turbo pistons
Possible 427 build ?
I have a 427' bbc sitting on the engine stand and was thinking of building it for my biesemeyer. It's in good running shape with stock bore, but I have some nice parts that I could put in it. The block is a four bolt main, it has a pn#6223 forged 1053 steel crank, and flat top piston w/ stock 7/16 rods.
what I was thinking, was to use a set Oliver 6.660 rods ( that I have set aside)and a set of cp 12:1 pistons w/ 1.245 piston pin height, brodix sts bb-1 heads, profiler sniper jr. manifold w/ 750 dominator, and have a cam custom ground.
so what are everyone's thoughts? open for criticism, opinions, and performance level.
trevor
what I was thinking, was to use a set Oliver 6.660 rods ( that I have set aside)and a set of cp 12:1 pistons w/ 1.245 piston pin height, brodix sts bb-1 heads, profiler sniper jr. manifold w/ 750 dominator, and have a cam custom ground.
so what are everyone's thoughts? open for criticism, opinions, and performance level.
trevor
Possible 427 build ?
Cougar Omega WindShield Source
Hey guys, I have a customer looking for a source for a wind shield for his 1992 Cougar Omega... i did find that the original manufacture was a place called "Boats Window Mfg." located at 1220 E Hunter Ave. in Santa Anna... there was a barely legible sticker on the old glass... I researched that company, but it looks like they no longer exist... i am sure all their moulds ended up somewhere... anybody have any leads that may help?
cheers,
Mike Nass
e-mail is mikenass@shaw.ca
604-230-4835
cheers,
Mike Nass
e-mail is mikenass@shaw.ca
604-230-4835
Cougar Omega WindShield Source
Ranger jet boat
I have a ranger jet boat
(Similar to the southwind hull)
ford 460 marine motor
holley 750 just rebuilt
new distributor
new steering cable
new carpet
berkeley jet
looks good runs great
Turn key boat no problems
$3500
text or pm for pics won't let me post them for some reason
619-315-1014
(Similar to the southwind hull)
ford 460 marine motor
holley 750 just rebuilt
new distributor
new steering cable
new carpet
berkeley jet
looks good runs great
Turn key boat no problems
$3500
text or pm for pics won't let me post them for some reason
619-315-1014
Ranger jet boat
FBI alert this morning
The local news, Pittsburgh Pa, has a story this morning that the FBI has issued a threat alert for "police and white citizens" specific to our area. A credible informant gave info that gangs and affiliates are going to target "police and white citizens" so no cops are going to answer calls without backup. The Pittsburgh area is a cross-roads for drug traffic between New York, Baltimore, and Cleveland-Detroit so the outside influence is substantial. In the space of a couple days it appears things have escalated from kill the cops to kill whitey in general. At least the hot blonde on the news still had a smile on her face, so I still feel all warm and fuzzy. It might be a good idea to have hoodies made up that say "I can't breathe" on the back so if you keep the hood up you won't have a target on your back, and the bastards would at least have to face you to see their target. Well then you would be able to see yours too.:yes:
FBI alert this morning
Wtb Super Stock/Davey B Scoop
dimanche 21 décembre 2014
Looking for a scoop for my Bezer build. Anyone have one? Doesn't need to be pretty.
Oath Keeper
Oath Keeper
Wtb Super Stock/Davey B Scoop
BBC Motor mounts for V Drive.
Any one in the Fresno area have a set of Motor Mounts for a V Drive that I can copy? 74 Sanger. BBC.
BBC Motor mounts for V Drive.
SBC 400 engine
Std bore 2 bolt main 509 casting with 487 heads and a gear drive. It flattened the cam and I heard it run before i helped pull it from the truck. It has a performer RPM intake on it will text pics if requested. I live near Fresno pick up only $450 obo Chris 5597907580
SBC 400 engine
[Question] Seeking Input On Proposed Sereo System
Greetings folks,
Newbie to this forum, but not new to forums/boating, etc.
I would like feedback on a stereo for my boat. ANY and ALL feedback is extremely appreciated!
20' Aluminum Thunderjet Lake Havasu model, 350 cu AT SD-309 jet (through transom exhaust)
Amps:
(1) Wet Sounds HT-6 amp powering 6 channels at 110 watts RMS each at 4 Ohms.
(1) Wet Sounds HT-1 600 mono split - so 300 watts RMS each for 2 channels at 2 Ohms.
Speakers:
Mains (3) sets for a total of 6 speakers - Infinity 6912m 6x9 coaxial (rated at 100w RMS/300w Peak).
Subs (2) JL Audio 10" M10IB5-CG-WH (no enclosure needed - infinite baffle design)
Mounting:
The boat came with a structure built in with speakers of the same size as what's going in. There's a wood structure in the bow on the deck/floor containing 4 6x9's facing forward, with the structure also holding the (2) 10" subs facing forward (away from cockpit), in that same structure, close to the deck/floor (not stacked on top).
The 2 remaining 6x9's are mounted in the rear bench seat, facing forward (with the engine behind that rear bench seat).
My goal is just clean, loud sound for the boat occupants, as I'm not trying to entertain the entire Delta or beach.
My initial system was going to be (4) 8.8" JL Audio mains, with the same subs but powered at 200 watts RMS each. That was going to be powered by an 800 JL Audio amp, so 200 watts RMS x 4 (at 4 ohms). At $1,100 for those speakers, I changed it to my current idea above, and changed my plan to Wet Sounds amps, for a reduction of ~$1,000.
Question:
Is this enough power to create clean, loud sound? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
My current set up is Boston Acoustic Amps, at 55 watts each for the (6) 6x9's, and 300 watts to each sub. I do not know the brand or specs on any of the speakers, but the two amps are Boston Acoustic models GT-24, and a GT-40. They are no longer made.
The sound is not very good, I think it was installed in 2005, the year of the boat.
Thanks!
Newbie to this forum, but not new to forums/boating, etc.
I would like feedback on a stereo for my boat. ANY and ALL feedback is extremely appreciated!
20' Aluminum Thunderjet Lake Havasu model, 350 cu AT SD-309 jet (through transom exhaust)
Amps:
(1) Wet Sounds HT-6 amp powering 6 channels at 110 watts RMS each at 4 Ohms.
(1) Wet Sounds HT-1 600 mono split - so 300 watts RMS each for 2 channels at 2 Ohms.
Speakers:
Mains (3) sets for a total of 6 speakers - Infinity 6912m 6x9 coaxial (rated at 100w RMS/300w Peak).
Subs (2) JL Audio 10" M10IB5-CG-WH (no enclosure needed - infinite baffle design)
Mounting:
The boat came with a structure built in with speakers of the same size as what's going in. There's a wood structure in the bow on the deck/floor containing 4 6x9's facing forward, with the structure also holding the (2) 10" subs facing forward (away from cockpit), in that same structure, close to the deck/floor (not stacked on top).
The 2 remaining 6x9's are mounted in the rear bench seat, facing forward (with the engine behind that rear bench seat).
My goal is just clean, loud sound for the boat occupants, as I'm not trying to entertain the entire Delta or beach.
My initial system was going to be (4) 8.8" JL Audio mains, with the same subs but powered at 200 watts RMS each. That was going to be powered by an 800 JL Audio amp, so 200 watts RMS x 4 (at 4 ohms). At $1,100 for those speakers, I changed it to my current idea above, and changed my plan to Wet Sounds amps, for a reduction of ~$1,000.
Question:
Is this enough power to create clean, loud sound? Any thoughts? Thanks in advance!
My current set up is Boston Acoustic Amps, at 55 watts each for the (6) 6x9's, and 300 watts to each sub. I do not know the brand or specs on any of the speakers, but the two amps are Boston Acoustic models GT-24, and a GT-40. They are no longer made.
The sound is not very good, I think it was installed in 2005, the year of the boat.
Thanks!
[Question] Seeking Input On Proposed Sereo System
Mayor Bill de Blasio---Blowback
Quote:
In the wake of two cop slayings in Brooklyn this weekend, police unions and their allies are blaming recent calls to bring more accountability to America’s police forces from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and the Obama administration.
NYC's Mayor Bill de Blasio weathers blowback on police reform after cop slayings
Mayor Bill de Blasio---Blowback
Jack Keaton RIP
Local boat builder,just read today in Obits.never met,but heard lots of good things about Jack:(
Jack Keaton RIP
heart of an engine cool video
most of all of us can appreciate this video on how billet cranks are made, I have 2 crower billet cranks in my hemis I guess this is how they make them thank you chuck taylor for the vid
Video: See a crankshaft created from a raw steel billet | Mac's Motor City Garage
Video: See a crankshaft created from a raw steel billet | Mac's Motor City Garage
heart of an engine cool video
Question on changing motor location
Motor is currently 18" from back of block to inside transom . Moving it forward to get 28-30" per Gregs advice. ( approx 1 foot ), Installing longer Stringer motor Rails ( I'd like to be able to just line up new rails where old ones were and re drill new holes in the angle , using existing holes already drilled thru the stringers ) and using same motor plates and brackets . Would engine angle be ok ? Or is there a preferred driveline angle limit ? Most around these parts just say move it , get a new driveline , it's done ?
PS : 18" measurement is without jetaway . I will be installing one now so new driveline will only need to be about 8" or less
PS : 18" measurement is without jetaway . I will be installing one now so new driveline will only need to be about 8" or less
Question on changing motor location
What are your 2015 plans
samedi 20 décembre 2014
So with winter here and Christmas about to pass, I can finally throw a few more bucks into my boat.. Polish a few things (be trailer queen worthy), mainly get the thing put back together and running. I need to get a nice lifeline jacket too:wink2:
What are your 2015 plans
What is the HP difference between wet and dry exhaust?
Engine: 700 HP @ 6000 RPM. long tube headers. How much power does the wet exhaust rob? I know it is stupid loud.....I just want to know how much power is lost assuming the tuning is adjusted for the wet/dry exhaust.
What is the HP difference between wet and dry exhaust?
Imco SCT
Looking to sell my Imco drive package everything silver powder coated. The SCT drive same as the SCX without the clutch dog. Uses a Bam 1350 transmission. The price depends on what parts you need.
Imco SCT
Membership info
Some of you may know me and I know some of the people here. Would like to be informed of outings and such so how do I join mhb? Just sold a boat and now looking to get another and want to make some of the meets. Went to a few that were on walled lake a few years back and had a ball talking to some people and watching the happenings on the lake. What ever happened to Kevin? Is he still involved?
Membership info
Now here's a movie I'd like to see
American Sniper-a factual story on the life of Chris Kyle a navy sniper who was tragically murdered while try to help another vet with PTSD. Rest in piece Chris. And go f^^k yourself Jesse ventura!!
Now here's a movie I'd like to see
New Century BBC aluminum block
Brand new, in the original box, New Century aluminum BBC block for sale.
Water block
Cross bolted billet steel main caps
9.800 deck
Standard BBC cam tunnel, +.250 raised location
.842 lifter bores (tall)
4.490 sleeves for 4.500 or larger bore (new)
Includes 1/2 to 7/16 stepped head studs
Pics available
Save $700 under invoice, and not have to wait for weeks or months
$5800 plus the ride
crdafoe@yahoo.com
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Water block
Cross bolted billet steel main caps
9.800 deck
Standard BBC cam tunnel, +.250 raised location
.842 lifter bores (tall)
4.490 sleeves for 4.500 or larger bore (new)
Includes 1/2 to 7/16 stepped head studs
Pics available
Save $700 under invoice, and not have to wait for weeks or months
$5800 plus the ride
crdafoe@yahoo.com
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
New Century BBC aluminum block
WOW... now thats a motor!
28 Cylinder PRATT & WHITNEY aircraft motor.... used in the 40s and 50s ??? what happened to all this great BIG MOTOR technology????
WOW... now thats a motor!
Cool video on Boostpower Marines new 800 cube non supercharged engines
Cool video on Boostpower Marines new 800 cube non supercharged engines
Thru Transom Exhaust?
Just bought a v drive (bassett headers) and thinking of switching to thru transom exhaust (trying to make is more 'civilized' and draw less attention for noise). Any thoughts? Anyone done it and regretted it?
Thru Transom Exhaust?
Getting a Fat IRS Refund this year ?
Don't count on it ...Crying they are Broke ? If that's the case lets just lay all the IRS employees off and close it down ! Nothing but a bunch of Crooks anyways ! IRS chief warns of refund delays over budget cuts | Fox News
Getting a Fat IRS Refund this year ?
2015 Lake Havasu Boat Show, April 10-12
jeudi 18 décembre 2014
It's never too soon to mark those new 2015 calendars with "don't miss" events. Take a minute and circle Friday, Saturday and Sunday, April 10-12 for the 24th Annual Lake Havasu Boat Show at Lake Havasu State Park, Windsor 4, now the largest boat show in Arizona and Nevada. Over 100 exhibitors and more than 60 brands of boats on display -- lots of pontoons and the latest in high performance sportboats along with family runabouts, fishing boats, wakesport boats, deckboats, jet boats and PWCs. This year the special attraction schedule is again jam-packed with Legends by the Lake Car Show, IJSBA Jettribe Personal Watercraft "WaterCross" Racing, a $5,000 Chili Cook-Off and the appearance of the 2013-2014 offshore world champion race boat, "Miss Geico", plus the inaugural Lake Havasu "Cornhole" championship tournament. Show hours are: noon to 6pm on Friday, 9am to 6pm on Saturday and 9am to 3pm on Sunday. Admission is only $4.00 for adults, kids 6 and under are free and so is parking. Now accepting exhibitor space applications. More info available at Lake Havasu Boat Show
2015 Lake Havasu Boat Show, April 10-12
Clear anodizing removal
Does anyone know how to remove clear anodizing that has experience doing it. The only way I can get it off is sanding. Looking for a chemical way to remove or something easier than sanding.
Clear anodizing removal
Portland, Oregon
Hello anynne in the Portland area that can pickup some small parts for me..Got some parts from a guy that cant afford to ship..I will pay shipping please let know. Thank Mel
Portland, Oregon
Billet Specialties aluminium oil pan
Bad ass aluminum pan DRC spread pattern. Has check ball system for oil control. Also has 12an turbo drains.
Billet Specialties aluminium oil pan
Controlling porpoise with down pedal and setup
I'll start by saying, this is my first time around learning to drive and set up a vdrive. I have no problem doing the "trial and error" thing to learn to launch a boat. But when it starts to porpoise at 60mph+, I want to figure out safely how to deal with it. Basically, I know my boat can be set up to not hop around at speed. Ha, I just don't know how to do it. For now, I can keep it stable by using what seems to me like a lot of down pedal. About the time she starts to take a set, it starts to porpoise, which I've read is fairly typical (until time is put in to the setup). I'm looking to be able to run around the 90 mph mark without being on the down pedal and plowing with the nose.
I know all this won't happen over night. For now my plan is seat time, seat time, seat time, seat time. Just don't want to get spit out learning WTF I'm doing. I'll list as much info as I can about what I have. If anyone has any questions or suggestions on how to get this thing to settle down, please throw 'em out there. Thanks.
19' Sanger Family Ski
Stock 427 BBC (guessing around 375-400 hp)
10* Casale Box (with whirl away & 9% gears)
Don't know shaft angle
11 3/8 X 16 prop
Motor is 31" from transom
Vdrive is 97" from transom
Back of strut barrel is 25" in front of end of plates
Plates stick out 10" off back of boat
I know all this won't happen over night. For now my plan is seat time, seat time, seat time, seat time. Just don't want to get spit out learning WTF I'm doing. I'll list as much info as I can about what I have. If anyone has any questions or suggestions on how to get this thing to settle down, please throw 'em out there. Thanks.
19' Sanger Family Ski
Stock 427 BBC (guessing around 375-400 hp)
10* Casale Box (with whirl away & 9% gears)
Don't know shaft angle
11 3/8 X 16 prop
Motor is 31" from transom
Vdrive is 97" from transom
Back of strut barrel is 25" in front of end of plates
Plates stick out 10" off back of boat
Controlling porpoise with down pedal and setup
WTB Kinsler Dial-a-Jet
Looking for a Kinsler dial-a-Jet anyone have one they want to sell ?
thanks ! Rick
thanks ! Rick
WTB Kinsler Dial-a-Jet
WTB....... edelbrock bbc timing cover/motor mount
hey dudes........just missed one on craigs... so maybe some one has one. looking for a edelbrock timing/ motor mount for a bbc. the cast cover with the feet. thanks EBD...
WTB....... edelbrock bbc timing cover/motor mount
KE Manifolds for BBC.... USED.....
I have a set that I bought for a project. I don't think I will use as I am looking at property. These were on a boat in the Lake of the Ozarks. I bought them after owner passed.
$1800 or best offer
$1800 or best offer
KE Manifolds for BBC.... USED.....
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !!!
To all the Boating Family I hope you have a Great Holiday Season!!!!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !!!
Breathe Easy, Don't Break the Law T Shrit
Available here: South Bend Uniform
And the libtards are calling this racist. Well so is "hands up, don't shoot" and "I can't breathe" then, morons!!! :duh:
And the libtards are calling this racist. Well so is "hands up, don't shoot" and "I can't breathe" then, morons!!! :duh:
Breathe Easy, Don't Break the Law T Shrit
DEF Fluid
I know that DEF gets injected into the muffler in 2 spots, there are no sensors for this process. In this case if a guy were to run water in the DEF tank what harm could be done ? DEF is basically all water anyways I ask this because I know guy who claims to be doing it.
DEF Fluid
lightning headers, stainless marine manifolds or cmi headers
I've got stainless marine gen 2 manifolds for my 96 daytona at the moment. I know the cmi headers will fit but have read that the lightning headers can be a problem to get to fit in this boat. Any thoughts from those that have dealt with this first hand?
lightning headers, stainless marine manifolds or cmi headers
10degree hallcraft gears
mercredi 17 décembre 2014
1 set of 29s and 1 set of 38s for 10 degree hall craft v-drive......$200.00 a set...located in Lakewood California call Dave 562-965-3233
10degree hallcraft gears
Powerglide - driveshaft question
May be a silly question, but I can't find a silly answer.
19.5' v-drive with a short powerglide. My driveshaft is super-short with a single u-joint, and when the prop is spinning slow I can physically watch the trans shimmy side to side by a 1/16th or so, and feel a vibration. I reset the motor to address the alignment, no difference. I checked the runout on the v-drive shaft and coupler, all good. Checked the runout on the driveshaft, all good. I'm assuming the hull is moving around by a CH in the water or on the trailer causing the misalignment.
seems to me that a double u-joint is in order to allow for misalignment, but it will mean moving my motor back by an inch to an inch and a half to accommodate.
Am am I going down the wrong path here? I calculate that I will need 6.75" between the v-drive flange and the face of the transmission to accommodate a double joint.
19.5' v-drive with a short powerglide. My driveshaft is super-short with a single u-joint, and when the prop is spinning slow I can physically watch the trans shimmy side to side by a 1/16th or so, and feel a vibration. I reset the motor to address the alignment, no difference. I checked the runout on the v-drive shaft and coupler, all good. Checked the runout on the driveshaft, all good. I'm assuming the hull is moving around by a CH in the water or on the trailer causing the misalignment.
seems to me that a double u-joint is in order to allow for misalignment, but it will mean moving my motor back by an inch to an inch and a half to accommodate.
Am am I going down the wrong path here? I calculate that I will need 6.75" between the v-drive flange and the face of the transmission to accommodate a double joint.
Powerglide - driveshaft question
468 aluminum head engine "kit"
I have a complete engine that I pulled apart for inspection, ready for someone to put back together. It is a very low hours pump gas engine that perhaps makes in the 450 horsepower range or better, $3300
Parts consist of the following:
2 bolt MK IV 454 block that has been bored .060" over
Cast GM crank that has been machine polished
3/8" Gm rods that were reconditioned with ARP bolts
Forged Speed Pro pistons
Edelbrock Performer RPM aluminum heads
Edelbrock Performer RPM intake manifold (clean)
Harland Sharp roller rockers
Clay Smith hydraulic roller cam
Cloyes timing set
GM timing cover
Cast aluminum oil pan
GM damper
Edelbrock #1410 750cfm marine carb
Accel HEI distributor
New parts included:
Clevite rod and main bearings (I have already measured mains for proper clearance)
Fel Pro rear main seal
Mahle piston rings
What remains to be done, aside from assembly:
Hone block (I can do that with a ball hone for you if desired)
All new gaskets
I would suggest new lifters.
Parts consist of the following:
2 bolt MK IV 454 block that has been bored .060" over
Cast GM crank that has been machine polished
3/8" Gm rods that were reconditioned with ARP bolts
Forged Speed Pro pistons
Edelbrock Performer RPM aluminum heads
Edelbrock Performer RPM intake manifold (clean)
Harland Sharp roller rockers
Clay Smith hydraulic roller cam
Cloyes timing set
GM timing cover
Cast aluminum oil pan
GM damper
Edelbrock #1410 750cfm marine carb
Accel HEI distributor
New parts included:
Clevite rod and main bearings (I have already measured mains for proper clearance)
Fel Pro rear main seal
Mahle piston rings
What remains to be done, aside from assembly:
Hone block (I can do that with a ball hone for you if desired)
All new gaskets
I would suggest new lifters.
468 aluminum head engine "kit"
looking for info...... can't find the past post.
Maybe a month ago..... and it's a long shot but I saw what looked to be cmi headers for sale on this forum that used a rope style seal on the flange.And the seller had mentioned it. The seller didn't know the brand of the header at the time. Are they still available?
looking for info...... can't find the past post.
ATI damper Bolt pattern
Anyone have the bolt pattern specs for a BBC (small block should be same) ATI damper? Looking for the 3 bolt hole OEM specs for mounting CE19, pulleys etc, diameter. Spacing looks to be equal about 360 degrees.
Thanks
James
Thanks
James
ATI damper Bolt pattern
Cuba - another bad deal
Just herd that Obama traded 3 high level spies for the aid worker in Cuba. Another GD aid worker some place they shouldn't be.
To bad Obama wasn't in the market for a 2003 Chevy van. I bet I could get 3 corvettes for it. :hmmm:
To bad Obama wasn't in the market for a 2003 Chevy van. I bet I could get 3 corvettes for it. :hmmm:
Cuba - another bad deal
More lies and deception
Obama issues 'executive orders by another name'
Funny how O just keeps on lying and gets away with it over and over again.
Funny how O just keeps on lying and gets away with it over and over again.
More lies and deception
Contact info for Rex Marine
I'm posting this up for a friend, he's tried to order parts for about a month. Said he can't get a answer on the phone and no response from e-mail. We knew he was moving awhile back, anybody have contact info?
Contact info for Rex Marine
O Ring Block??
mardi 16 décembre 2014
I have an o ring 427 block and i'm not sure where i could get the the o rings for it? Talked to a couple of builders and they don't know, any Ideas??
O Ring Block??
Lunati 4.375 Signature Series Crank
Used Lunati Signature Series Crankshaft 4.375 stroke. Standard/Standard. $1000
Signature Series Crankshaft - Chevrolet Big Block 4.375" Stroke (2-Piece Rear Main) - Lunati Power
Freshly magged and X-rayed
Located in San Diego for pickup
Signature Series Crankshaft - Chevrolet Big Block 4.375" Stroke (2-Piece Rear Main) - Lunati Power
Freshly magged and X-rayed
Located in San Diego for pickup
Lunati 4.375 Signature Series Crank
Niner/Charger/Cardinals Tix
I know, I know, playoffs are not happening but Levi's stadium is still an amazing place to watch a game! Face value on everything, lemme know if you want any:
6 for this Sat vs. San Diego and 2 parking passes, 4 for 12/28 vs. Arizona and 2 parking passes. Face value, either $100 or $85 each depending the section and parking is $40 each.
Call email or text: Mead-805-704-0628, whippoinsurance@gmail.com
6 for this Sat vs. San Diego and 2 parking passes, 4 for 12/28 vs. Arizona and 2 parking passes. Face value, either $100 or $85 each depending the section and parking is $40 each.
Call email or text: Mead-805-704-0628, whippoinsurance@gmail.com
Niner/Charger/Cardinals Tix
2007-2014 Ford F150 Truck Power Heated Memory Signal Puddle Light Towing Textured Mir
SHOP HERE FOR GREAT PRICES 2007-2014 Ford F150 Truck Power Heated Memory Signal Puddle Light Towing Textured Mirror Pair
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2007-2014 Ford F150 Truck Power Heated Memory Signal Puddle Light Towing Textured Mir
Murthy, Just What the Dr Ordered?
Pretty much par for the course.
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said most of Murthy's career has been spent as an activist focused on gun control and other political issues, rather than on treating patients. "Americans don't want a surgeon general who might use this position of trust to promote his own personal campaign against the Second Amendment of the Constitution," Barrasso said.
Senate approves Obama pick for surgeon general
Quote:
Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said most of Murthy's career has been spent as an activist focused on gun control and other political issues, rather than on treating patients. "Americans don't want a surgeon general who might use this position of trust to promote his own personal campaign against the Second Amendment of the Constitution," Barrasso said.
Senate approves Obama pick for surgeon general
Murthy, Just What the Dr Ordered?
Looking for the Shasta Lake June run crowd
Found you guys searching for the Shasta June Run group. Wasnt sure if it was a "private" gathering. I am new to the cat community, 6 months .... ish. Have taken boat to Havasu and Sac river. Boat lives in Sac for the winter, for now.
Looking for the Shasta Lake June run crowd
Entry form is in
2015 Needles boat / car show.
My entry is in, pulling the "K" with the 58 F-100 out west in Feb..
anyone up for a road trip?
Get out of the Cold for a week or so, enjoy some V-drive boats on the river.?
:)devil
My entry is in, pulling the "K" with the 58 F-100 out west in Feb..
anyone up for a road trip?
Get out of the Cold for a week or so, enjoy some V-drive boats on the river.?
:)devil
Entry form is in
BBC casting # 10069286 or 14015445 which is better.
lundi 15 décembre 2014
I have been helping my local machine shop with some of the engine builds he can't get time for and was helping the owner move some inventory to a different location and found he has a 10069286 4 bolt block, standard bore with fresh line bore on the mains. $500.00. He also has a 14015445 4 bolt block standard bore. $400.00. I would be buying for a 4.25 stroke engine in the future that I want to build, pump gas or maybe 12-1 around 750 HP. So is one block better than the other, Anything to look out for with these blocks.
Thanks
Eric
Thanks
Eric
BBC casting # 10069286 or 14015445 which is better.
Career Opportunity: Marine Technician
Teague Custom Marine: Now Hiring
High Performance Inboard Marine Technician
Hours: Full Time 45-50 Hours/Week
Requirements: Direct experience in the high performance marine environment not required, but applicants should have the necessary mechanical background and ability to learn and apply advanced service, diagnostic, and specific technical procedures upon start of employment. Certifications or Degrees pertinent to high performance marine installations recommended. Personal tools required.
Responsibilities: Technicians will be responsible for tasks involving all aspects of high performance powerboat maintenance and upgrades, including: service and diagnostics of all systems, engine removal and installation, engine disassembly and parts evaluation, stern drive and gimbal maintenance and overhaul, custom rigging of water, fuel, electrical, and engine support systems.
Advancement: Applicants should be prepared to work in a dynamic environment where a positive attitude and a desire to improve one’s abilities, skills, and knowledge on a day to day basis will bring them success.
Teague Custom Marine offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible, full time employees including medical, dental, life, 401(k), holiday and vacation time.
Please submit resumes to:
Cherilyn Noack
(661) 295-7000
Cherilyn@teaguecustommarine.com
High Performance Inboard Marine Technician
Hours: Full Time 45-50 Hours/Week
Requirements: Direct experience in the high performance marine environment not required, but applicants should have the necessary mechanical background and ability to learn and apply advanced service, diagnostic, and specific technical procedures upon start of employment. Certifications or Degrees pertinent to high performance marine installations recommended. Personal tools required.
Responsibilities: Technicians will be responsible for tasks involving all aspects of high performance powerboat maintenance and upgrades, including: service and diagnostics of all systems, engine removal and installation, engine disassembly and parts evaluation, stern drive and gimbal maintenance and overhaul, custom rigging of water, fuel, electrical, and engine support systems.
Advancement: Applicants should be prepared to work in a dynamic environment where a positive attitude and a desire to improve one’s abilities, skills, and knowledge on a day to day basis will bring them success.
Teague Custom Marine offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible, full time employees including medical, dental, life, 401(k), holiday and vacation time.
Please submit resumes to:
Cherilyn Noack
(661) 295-7000
Cherilyn@teaguecustommarine.com
Career Opportunity: Marine Technician
New 2015 School Dates going up!
Let us know what locations you would like us to put on calender.
Calendar
SCHEDULE FOR 2014 UPDATED December 15th, 2014, The performance boat courses will be somewhere near you!
Upcoming classes in progress:
Call for details or additional availability in any location Worldwide!!!!
Phone: 352-620-8737
Calendar
SCHEDULE FOR 2014 UPDATED December 15th, 2014, The performance boat courses will be somewhere near you!
Upcoming classes in progress:
| Jan 12-14th 2015 | Phoenix AZ, (Confirmed) |
| Jan 19/20 2015 | Destin, FL |
| April 21/22 2015 | Desert Storm Lake Havasu, AZ (Confirmed) |
| April 20/30 2015 | Lake of the Ozarks, MO |
| May 4/5 2015 | Constantia, NY (Confirmed) |
| May 7/8 2015 | Alexandria Bay NY (Confirmed) |
| May 17/18 2015 | Lake St Clair, MI (Confirmed) |
| June 3/4 2015 | Toronto Canada |
| SIGN UP FOR THESE LOCATIONS!! | |
| Port Clinto OH | Lake Norman NC |
| Lake Lanier GA | Smith Mountain Lake KY |
| Lake Tahoe CA | Long Beach CA |
| Baltimore MD | Austin TX |
| Lake Powell AZ | New Orleans LA |
| Destin FL | Tampa FL |
| Fort Meyers FL | Seattle WA |
| Kelowna Canada | Toronto Canada |
| Montreal Canada | Quebec Canada |
| Thousand Islands NY | Knoxville TN |
| Nashville TN | Green Bay WI |
| Jacksonville FL | Chicago IL |
| Lake Powell AZ | Lake Murray SC |
| Houston TX | Grand Lake OK |
Call for details or additional availability in any location Worldwide!!!!
Phone: 352-620-8737
New 2015 School Dates going up!
Drivers side A/C -07 duramax
Cruising down the road with A/C on, drivers side goes hot, passenger side stays cool.
Pull over, shut motor off, start back up a/c is cool. Could stay that way for days or 10 minutes. I've actually got pretty good at 65 mph, slip it into neutral, shut off motor, start it back up & keep on going. Opinions?
Pull over, shut motor off, start back up a/c is cool. Could stay that way for days or 10 minutes. I've actually got pretty good at 65 mph, slip it into neutral, shut off motor, start it back up & keep on going. Opinions?
Drivers side A/C -07 duramax
Slatwall Vertical w alum insert 14 sheets
$500
Slatwall, vertical 4x8 sheets used but excellent condition Lot of 14 sheets
All have aluminum insert included greatly increasing strength of slots.
This sells around $100 a sheet new, I know I bought it new. There are maybe 2-3 sheets that are cut short and probably 2-3 that may have a plug hole, I have not gone through them lately. Selling as a lot only, not piecing it out. If not sold it will be scrapped out. This came out of a store with large blank walls so it is very clean and not all chopped up. The partial sheets on top of the pile are extra throw ins not included in the 14 sheet count.
Slatwall, vertical 4x8 sheets used but excellent condition Lot of 14 sheets
All have aluminum insert included greatly increasing strength of slots.
This sells around $100 a sheet new, I know I bought it new. There are maybe 2-3 sheets that are cut short and probably 2-3 that may have a plug hole, I have not gone through them lately. Selling as a lot only, not piecing it out. If not sold it will be scrapped out. This came out of a store with large blank walls so it is very clean and not all chopped up. The partial sheets on top of the pile are extra throw ins not included in the 14 sheet count.
Slatwall Vertical w alum insert 14 sheets
Please Help ID These Boats from Pirate's Den
dimanche 14 décembre 2014
Looking for the owner's names and any boat info on the following images, for publication in the January 2015 issue of SPEEDBOAT Magazine. Thanks in advance for your help.
Please Help ID These Boats from Pirate's Den
Please Help ID These Boats from Pirate's Den
Looking for the owner's names and any boat info on the following images, for publication in the January 2015 issue of SPEEDBOAT Magazine. Thanks in advance for your help.
Please Help ID These Boats from Pirate's Den
2 Mercury Maximus lab 5 blade
Selling for a good friend two Mercury Maximus 5 blade lab props 32 pitch they were ran once on his boat was the wrong prop for his boat. 1400$ for both props Callie text me 661-904-8598
2 Mercury Maximus lab 5 blade
lapping compound
What grit compound are you guys lapping your props in with? Any preference on brand or is compound pretty much all the same?
lapping compound
mcintosh stereo equipment.
my father passed away and I cant see keeping this equipment. he bought it all new from stereo showcase in Vallejo,ca. all orig papers and owners manuals come with equipment. I have no idea what this stuff is worth so if possible can someone lead my in right direction to sell this stuff. its in perfect condition. no scratches and very well cared for. I have a tuner MR77 it has the optional wooden enclosure for it , pre-amp C30 , and a amp MC2002. I would like to sell as a set and not split up. willing to take offers or would appreciate asst to sell this to someone that will enjoy it like my dad did. I will post photos soon. I can be contacted at 707-249-5303 Dan
mcintosh stereo equipment.
Racking, shelving
$190
Steel frame rack shelving 2 94" sections, 10 shelves 30" wide, 12 foot high uprights
Heavy tubular orange load beams 94" in length
Heavy fiberboard shelves included
Sammons style load beams and uprights
I have a LOT of other racking available for sale right now. Please inquire. It will go to a broker or scrap soon if not sold.
Photo is for this lot only
Steel frame rack shelving 2 94" sections, 10 shelves 30" wide, 12 foot high uprights
Heavy tubular orange load beams 94" in length
Heavy fiberboard shelves included
Sammons style load beams and uprights
I have a LOT of other racking available for sale right now. Please inquire. It will go to a broker or scrap soon if not sold.
Photo is for this lot only
Racking, shelving
Slatwall Verticall w alum insert 14 sheets
$500
Slatwall, vertical 4x8 sheets used but excellent condition Lot of 14 sheets
All have aluminum insert included greatly increasing strength of slots.
This sells around $100 a sheet new, I know I bought it new. There are maybe 2-3 sheets that are cut short and probably 2-3 that may have a plug hole, I have not gone through them lately. Selling as a lot only, not piecing it out. If not sold it will be scrapped out. This came out of a store with large blank walls so it is very clean and not all chopped up. The partial sheets on top of the pile are extra throw ins not included in the 14 sheet count.
Slatwall, vertical 4x8 sheets used but excellent condition Lot of 14 sheets
All have aluminum insert included greatly increasing strength of slots.
This sells around $100 a sheet new, I know I bought it new. There are maybe 2-3 sheets that are cut short and probably 2-3 that may have a plug hole, I have not gone through them lately. Selling as a lot only, not piecing it out. If not sold it will be scrapped out. This came out of a store with large blank walls so it is very clean and not all chopped up. The partial sheets on top of the pile are extra throw ins not included in the 14 sheet count.
Slatwall Verticall w alum insert 14 sheets
Slatwall Horizontal w alum insert 28 sheets
$1000
Slatwall, horizontal 4x8 sheets used but excellent condition Lot of 28 sheets
All have aluminum insert included greatly increasing strength of slots.
This sells around $100 a sheet new, I know I bought it new. There are maybe 4 sheets that are cut short and probably 3-4 that may have a plug hole, I have not gone through them lately. Selling as a lot only, not piecing it out. If not sold it will be scrapped out. This came out of a store with large blank walls so it is very clean and not all chopped up.
Slatwall, horizontal 4x8 sheets used but excellent condition Lot of 28 sheets
All have aluminum insert included greatly increasing strength of slots.
This sells around $100 a sheet new, I know I bought it new. There are maybe 4 sheets that are cut short and probably 3-4 that may have a plug hole, I have not gone through them lately. Selling as a lot only, not piecing it out. If not sold it will be scrapped out. This came out of a store with large blank walls so it is very clean and not all chopped up.
Slatwall Horizontal w alum insert 28 sheets
1956 Chevy Hood original not a reproduction
$1000 obo
1956 Chevy Hood, original part not a reproduction. I pulled this hood from a wrecked car in the 1970's. Emblems and chrome parts have some pitting, probably restorable with chrome work. The Vee is missing per photo.
1956 Chevy Hood, original part not a reproduction. I pulled this hood from a wrecked car in the 1970's. Emblems and chrome parts have some pitting, probably restorable with chrome work. The Vee is missing per photo.
1956 Chevy Hood original not a reproduction
16 more reasons why I hate....
Niqqers!!! :angry:
SAVAGE: Is Burning Whites The NEW 'Knock Out' Game for Blacks? | Doug Giles | #ClashDaily
The last, Jessica Chambers, was from not 60 miles from here, and she had a black boy friend. It is not confirmed, but assumed black on white crime. Burning people, it's what niqqers do. :no:
SAVAGE: Is Burning Whites The NEW 'Knock Out' Game for Blacks? | Doug Giles | #ClashDaily
The last, Jessica Chambers, was from not 60 miles from here, and she had a black boy friend. It is not confirmed, but assumed black on white crime. Burning people, it's what niqqers do. :no:
16 more reasons why I hate....
WTB - BBC tunnel ram - tall deck
looking for one set up for port fuel injection.
WTB - BBC tunnel ram - tall deck
Hot boat transport - help needed
Need a boat towed/transported from florida to nor cal. Any ideas? Besides uship or a case of red bull and a long road trip? Read somewhere of some guys that tow them from AZ to CA quite a bit.
Hot boat transport - help needed
Rudder chrome?
samedi 13 décembre 2014
Going to replace the wedge rudder on my Kurtis runner, should I get a chrome one or not?
Rudder chrome?
Olson pan to pickup clearance, is 1/2" ok.
Olson 12 qt v drive pan. Milodon pump. I have 1/2" clearance pickup to pan. Am I ok with this? I can close it up to 3/8 by using a washer under the stud but it puts the tube in a slight bind so I would rather leave it as is if ok at 1/2.
Olson pan to pickup clearance, is 1/2" ok.
Anyone using the app on here?
Just got a new phone. The aspect ratio sucks and l can't see that its adjustable. I'm running the full program on pb from the web, and the page is too big. When l shrink it down to fit, the type is too small. Is the performance boat app better for the cell, or does it do the same thing?
Thanks in advance, be safe. schick
Thanks in advance, be safe. schick
Anyone using the app on here?
Question on Sanger
Well go today to let the woman get a kitten for kids today and it had a surprise for me. The place had to empty hulls sitting in the pasture. They both look the same, on had a HIN and badge plate identifying it as a sanger. The other had no identification on it. The Sanger has a JG with machined intake with ride plate. And a single axle trailer. Spare parts such as foot throttles, metal gas tanks and such. Guess I am really asking what would you think this is worth. I now a vey vauge question without pics. The Sanger looks like this, as does the other hull.
Question on Sanger
Help needed
Why is my computer keyboard not work properly on this site? It seems to act real slow and skips a lot of letters, especially when replying to posts.
What am I missing?
Vic
What am I missing?
Vic
Help needed
A Teacher's Rendition of Blacks in Inner City Schools
And he really shines a bright light on the real problems with black kids.
Speaking of cultural differences of the racial school children; Until recently I taught at a predominantly black high school in a southeastern state.
The mainstream press gives a hint of what conditions are like in black schools, but only a hint. Expressions journalists use like “chaotic” or “poor learning environment” or “lack of discipline” do not capture what really happens. There is nothing like the day-to-day experience of teaching black children and that is what I will try to convey.
Most whites simply do not know what black people are like in large numbers, and the first encounter can be a shock.
One of the most immediately striking things about my students was that they were loud. They had little conception of ordinary decorum. It was not unusual for five blacks to be screaming at me at once. Instead of calming down and waiting for a lull in the din to make their point—something that occurs to even the dimmest white students—blacks just
tried to yell over each other.
It did no good to try to quiet them, and white women were particularly inept at trying. I sat in on one woman’s class as she begged the children to pipe down. They just yelled louder so their voices would carry over hers.
Many of my black students would repeat themselves over and over again— just louder. It was as if they suffered from Tourette syndrome. They seemed to have no conception of waiting for an appropriate time to say something. They would get ideas in their heads and
simply had to shout them out. I might be leading a discussion on government and suddenly be interrupted: “We gotta get more Democrats! Clinton, she good!” The student may seem content with that outburst but two minutes later, he would suddenly start yelling again: “Clinton good!”
Anyone who is around young blacks will probably get a constant diet of rap music. Blacks often make up their own jingles, and it was not uncommon for 15 black boys to swagger into a classroom, bouncing their shoulders and jiving back.
They were yelling back and forth, rapping 15 different sets of words in the same harsh, rasping dialect. The words were almost invariably a childish form of boasting: “Who got
dem shine rim, who got dem shine shoe, who got dem shine grill (gold and silver dental caps)?” The amateur rapper usually ends with a claim—in the crudest terms imaginable—that all womankind is sexually devoted to him. For whatever reason, my students would often groan instead of saying a particular word, as in, “She suck dat aaahhhh (think of a long grinding groan), she f**k dat aaaahhhh, she lick dat aaaahhh.”
So many black girls dance in the hall, in the classroom, on the chairs, next to the chairs, under the chairs, everywhere. Once I took a call on my cell phone and had to step
outside of class. I was away about two minutes but when I got back the black girls had lined up at the front of the classroom and were convulsing to the delight of the boys.
Many black people, especially black women, are enormously fat. Some are so fat I had to arrange special seating to accommodate their bulk. I am not saying there are no fat white students—there are—but it is a matter of numbers and attitudes. Many black girls simply do not care that they are fat. There are plenty of white anorexics, but I have never met
or heard of a black anorexic.
“Black women be big Mr. Jackson,” my students would explain.
“Is it okay in the black community to be a little overweight?” I ask. Two obese black girls in front of my desk begin to dance, “You know dem boys lak juicy fruit, Mr. Jackson.” “Juicy” is a colorful black expression for the buttocks.
Blacks, on average, are the most directly critical people I have ever met: “Dat shirt stupid. Yo’ kid a bastard. Yo’ lips big.” Unlike whites, who tread gingerly around the subject of race, they can be brutally to the point. Once I needed to send a student to the office to deliver a message. I asked for volunteers, and suddenly you would think my classroom was a bastion of civic engagement. Thirty dark hands shot into the air. My students loved to leave the classroom and slack off, even if just for a few minutes, away from the eye of white authority. I picked a light-skinned boy to deliver the message. One
very black student was indignant: “You pick da half-breed.” And immediately other blacks take up the cry, and half a dozen mouths are screaming, “He half-breed.”
For decades, the country has been lamenting the poor academic performance of blacks and there is much to lament. There is no question, however, that many blacks come to school with a serious handicap that is not their fault. At home they have learned a dialect that is almost a different language. Blacks not only mispronounce words; their grammar is often wrong. When a black wants to ask, “Where is the bathroom?” he may actually say “Whar da badroom be?” Grammatically, this is the equivalent of “Where the bathroom is?” And this is the way they speak in high school. Students write the way they speak, so this is the language that shows up in written assignments.
It is true that some whites face a similar handicap. They speak with what I would call a “country” accent that is hard to reproduce but results in sentences such as “I’m gonna gemme a Coke.” Some of these country whites had to learn correct pronunciation and usage. The difference is that most whites overcome this handicap and learn to speak correctly; many blacks do not.
Most of the blacks I taught simply had no interest in academic subjects. I taught history, and students would often say they didn’t want to do an assignment or they didn’t like history because it was all about white people. Of course, this was “diversity” history, in which every cowboy’s black cook got a special page on how he contributed to winning the West, but black children still found it inadequate. So I would throw up my hands and assign them a project on a real, historical black person. My favorite
was Marcus Garvey. They had never heard of him, and I would tell them to research him, but they never did. They didn’t care and they didn’t want to do any work.
Anyone who teaches blacks soon learns that they have a completely different view of government from whites. Once I decided to fill 25 minutes by having students write about one thing the government should do to improve America. I gave this question to three classes totaling about 100 students, approximately 80 of whom were black. My few white students came back with generally “conservative” ideas. “We need to cut off people who don’t work,” was the most common suggestion. Nearly every black gave a variation on the theme of “We need more government services.”
My students had only the vaguest notion of who pays for government services. For them, it was like a magical piggy bank that never goes empty. One black girl was exhorting the class on the need for more social services and I kept trying to explain that people, real
live people, are taxed for the money to pay for those services. “Yeah, it come
from whites,” she finally said. “They stingy anyway.”
“Many black people make over $50,000 dollars a year and you would also be taking away from your own people,” I said.
She had an answer to that: “Dey half breed.” The class agreed. I let the subject drop.
Many black girls are perfectly happyto be welfare queens. On career day, one girl explained to the class that she was going to have lots of children and get fat checks from the government. No one in the class seemed to have any objection to this career choice.
Surprising attitudes can come out in class discussion. We were talking about the crimes committed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and I brought up the rape of a young girl in the bathroom of the Superdome. A majority of my students believed this was a horrible crime but a few took it lightly. One black boy spoke up without raising his hand: “Dat no big deal. They thought they is gonna die so they figured they have some fun. Dey jus’ wanna have a fun time; you know what I’m sayin’?” A few black heads nodded in agreement.
My department head once asked all the teachers to get a response from all students to the following question: “Do you think it is okay to break the law if it will benefit you greatly?” By then, I had been teaching for a while and was not surprised by answers that left a young, liberal, white woman colleague aghast. “Yeah” was the favorite answer. As one student explained, “Get dat green.”
There is a level of conformity among blacks that whites would find hard to believe. They like one kind of music: rap. They will vote for one political party: Democrat. They dance
one way, speak one way, are loud the same way, and fail their exams in the same way. Of course, thereare exceptions but theyare rare.
Whites are different. Some like country music, others heavy metal, some prefer pop, and still others, God forbid, enjoy rap music. They have different associations, groups, almost ideologies. There are jocks, nerds, preppies, and hunters. Blacks are all— well—black, and they are quick to let other blacks know when they deviate from the norm.
One might object that there are important group differences among blacks that a white man simply cannot detect. I have done my best to find them, but so far as I can tell, they dress the same, talk the same, think the same. Certainly, they form rival groups, but the groups are not different in any discernible way. There simply are no groups of blacks that are as distinctly different from each other as white “nerds,” “hunters,” or “Goths,” for example.
How the world looks to blacks One point on which all blacks agree is that everything is “racis’.” This is one message of liberalism they have absorbed completely. Did you do your homework? “Na, homework racis’.” Why did you get an F on the test? “Test racis’.”
I was trying to teach a unit on British philosophers and the first thing the students noticed about Bentham, Hobbes, and Locke was “Dey all white! Where da black philosopher a’?” I tried to explain there were no blacks in eighteenth century Britain. You can probably guess what they said to that: “Dat racis’!” One student accused me of deliberately failing him on a test because I didn’t like black people.
“Do you think I really hate black people?”
“Yeah.”
“Have I done anything to make you feel this way? How do you know?”
“You just do.”
“Why do you say that?”
He just smirked, looked out the window, and sucked air through his teeth. Perhaps this was a regional thing, but the blacks often sucked air through their teeth as a wordless expression of disdain or hostility.
My students were sometimes unable to see the world except through the lens of their own blackness. I had a class that was host to a German exchange student. One day he put on a Power Point presentation with famous German landmarks as well as his school and family.
From time to time during the presentation, blacks would scream, “Where da black folk?!” The exasperated German tried several times to explain that there were no black people where he lived in Germany. The students did not believe him. I told them Germany is in Europe, where white people are from, and Africa is where black people are from. They
insisted that the German student was racist, and deliberately refused to associate with blacks.
Blacks are keenly interested in their own racial characteristics. I have learned, for example, that some blacks have “good hair.” Good hair is black parlance for black-white hybrid hair. Apparently, it is less kinky, easier to style, and considered more attractive.
Blacks are also proud of light skin.
Imagine two black students shouting insults across the room. One is dark but slim; the other light and obese. The dark one begins the exchange: “You fat, Ridario!” Ridario smiles, doesn’t deign to look at his detractor, shakes his head like a wobbling top, and says, “You wish you light skinned.”
They could go on like this, repeating the same insults over and over.
My black students had nothing but contempt for Hispanic immigrants. They would vent their feelings so crudely that our department strongly advised us never to talk about immigration in class in case the principal or some outsider might overhear.
Whites were “racis’,” of course, but they thought of us at least as Americans. Not the Mexicans. Blacks have a certain, not necessarily hostile understanding of white people. They know how whites act, and it is clear they believe whites are smart and are good at organizing things. At the same time, they probably suspect whites are just putting on an
act when they talk about equality, as if it is all a sham that makes it easier for whites to control blacks. Blacks want a bigger piece of the American pie. I’m convinced that if it were up to them they would give whites a considerably smaller piece than whites get now, but they would give us something. They wouldn’t give Mexicans anything.
What about black boys and white girls? No one is supposed to notice this or talk about it but it is glaringly obvious: Black boys are obsessed with white girls. I’ve witnessed the following drama countless times. A black boy saunters up to a white girl. The cocky black dances around her, not really in a menacing way. It’s more a shuffle than a threat. As he bobs and shuffles he asks, “When you gonna go wit’ me?”
There are two kinds of reply. The more confident white girl gets annoyed, looks away
from the black and shouts, “I don’t wanna go out with you!” The more demure girl will look at her feet and mumble a polite excuse but ultimately say no.
There is only one response from the black boy: “You racis’.” Many girls—all too many—actually feel guilty because they do not want to date blacks. Most white girls at my school stayed away from blacks, but a few, particularly the ones who were addicted to drugs, fell in with them.
There is something else that is striking about blacks. They seem to have no sense of romance, of falling in love. What brings men and women together is sex, pure and simple, and there is a crude openness about this. There are many degenerate whites, of course, but some of my white students were capable of real devotion and tenderness, emotions that seemed absent from blacks—especially the boys.
Black schools are violent and the few whites who are too poor to escape are caught in the storm. The violence is astonishing, not so much that it happens, but the atmosphere in which it happens. Blacks can be smiling, seemingly perfectly content with what they are doing, having a good time, and then, suddenly start fighting. It’s uncanny. Not long
ago, I was walking through the halls and a group of black boys were walking in front of me. All of a sudden they started fighting with another group in the hallway.
Blacks are extraordinarily quick totake offense. Once I accidentally scuffed a black boy’s white sneaker with my shoe. He immediately rubbed his body up against mine and threatened to attack me. I stepped outside the class and had a security guard escort the student to the office. It was unusual for students to threaten teachers physically this way,
but among themselves, they were quick to fight for similar reasons.
The real victims are the unfortunate whites caught in this. They are always in danger and their educations suffer. White weaklings are particularly susceptible, but mostly to petty violence. They may be slapped or get a couple of kicks when they are trying to open a bottom locker. Typically, blacks save the hard, serious violence for each other.
There was a lot of promiscuous sex among my students and this led to violence. Black girls were constantly fighting over black boys. It was not uncommon to see two girls literally ripping each other’s hair out with a police officer in the middle trying to break up the fight. The black boy they were fighting over would be standing by with a smile, enjoying the show he had created. For reasons I cannot explain, boys seldom fought over girls.
Pregnancy was common among the blacks, though many black girls were so fat I could not tell the difference. I don’t know how many girls got abortions, but when they had the baby they usually stayed in school and had their own parents look after the child. The
school did not offer daycare.
My black students had nothing but contempt for Hispanics. Whites were “racis’,” of course, but they thought of us at least as Americans.
Security guards are everywhere in black schools—we had one on every hall. They also sat in on unruly classes and escorted students to the office. They were unarmed, but worked closely with the three city police officers who were constantly on duty.
There was a lot of drug-dealing at my school. This was a good way to make a fair amount of money but it also gave boys power over girls who wanted drugs. An addicted girl—black or white—became the plaything of anyone who could get her drugs.
One of my students was a notorious drug dealer. Everyone knew it. He was 19 years old and in eleventh grade. Once he got a score of three out of 100 on a test. He had been locked up four times since he was 13.
One day, I asked him, “Why do you come to school?” He wouldn’t answer. He just looked out the window, smiled, and sucked air through his teeth. His friend Yidarius
ventured an explanation: “He get dat green and get dem females.”
“What is the green?” I asked. “Money or dope?” “Both,” said Yidarius with a smile.
A very fat black interrupted from across the room: “We get dat lunch,” Mr. Jackson. “We gotta get dat lunch and brickfuss.” He means the free breakfast and lunch poor students get every day. “*****, we know’d you be lovin’ brickfuss!” shouts another student.
Some readers may believe that I have drawn a cruel caricature of black students. After all, according to official figures some 85 percent of them graduate. It would be instructive to know how many of those scraped by with barely a C- record. They go from grade to grade and they finally get their diplomas because there is so much pressure on teachers to push them through. It saves money to move them along, the school looks good, and the teachers look good.
Many of these children should have been failed, but the system would crack under their weight if they were all held back.
How did my experiences make me feel about blacks? Ultimately, I lost sympathy for them. In so many ways they seem to make their own beds. There they were in an integrationist’s fantasy—in the same classroom with white students, eating the same lunch, using the same bathrooms, listening to the same teachers—and yet the blacks
fail while the whites pass.
One tragic outcome among whites who have been teaching for too long is that it can engender something close to hatred. One teacher I knew gave up fast food—not for health reasons but because where he lived most fast-food workers were black. He had enough of blacks on the job. This was an extreme example but years of frustration can
take their toll. Many of my white colleagues with any experience were well on their way to that state of mind.
There is an unutterable secret among teachers: Almost all realize that blacks do not respond to traditional white instruction. Does that put the lie to environmentalism?
Not at all. It is what brings about endless, pointless innovation that is supposed to bring blacks up to the white level. The solution is more diversity—or put more generally, the solution is change. Change is an almost holy word in education, and you can fail a million times as long as you keep changing. That is why liberals keep revamping the curriculum and the way it is taught. For example, teachers are told that blacks need hands on instruction and more group work.
Teachers are told that blacks are more vocal and do not learn through reading and lectures. The implication is that they have certain traits that lend themselves to a different kind of teaching.
Whites have learned a certain way for centuries but it just doesn’t work with blacks. Of course, this implies racial differences but if pressed, most liberal teachers would say different racial learning styles come from some indefinable cultural characteristic unique to blacks. Therefore, schools must change, America must change. But into what?
How do you turn quantum physics into hands-on instruction or group work? No
one knows, but we must keep changing until we find something that works.
Public school has certainly changed since anyone reading this was a student. I have a friend who teaches elementary school, and she tells me that every week the students get a new diversity lesson, shipped in fresh from some bureaucrat’s office in Washington or the state capital. She showed me the materials for one week: a large poster, about the size of a forty-two inch flat-screen television. It shows an utterly diverse group—I mean diverse: handicapped, Muslim, Jewish, effeminate, poor, rich, brown, slightly brown, yellow, etc.—sitting at a table, smiling gaily, accomplishing some undefined task. The poster comes with a sheet of questions the teacher is supposed to ask. One might be: “These kids sure look different, but they look happy. Can you tell me which one in
the picture is an American?”
Some eight-year-old, mired in ignorance, will point to a white child like himself. “That one.”
The teacher reads from the answer, conveniently printed along with the question. “No, Billy, all these children are Americans. They are just as American
as you.”
The children get a snack, and the poster goes up on the wall until another one comes a week later. This is what happens at predominately white, middle-class, elementary schools everywhere. Elementary school teachers love All of the Colors of the Race, by award-winning children’s poet Arnold Adoff.
These are some of the lines they read to the children: “Mama is chocolate … Daddy is vanilla … Me (sic) is better … It is a new color. It is a new flavor. For love. Sometimes blackness seems too black for me, and whiteness is too sickly pale; and I wish every one were golden. Remember: long ago before people moved and migrated, and mixed and
matched … there was one people: one color, one race. The colors are flowing from what was before me to what will be after. All the colors.”
Teaching as a career it may come as a surprise after what I have written, but my experiences have given me a deep appreciation for teaching as a career. It offers a stable, middle-class life but comes with the capacity to make real differences in the lives of
children. In our modern, atomized world children often have very little communication with adults—especially, or even, with their parents—so there is potential for a real transaction between pupil and teacher, disciple and master.
A rewarding relationship can grow up between an exceptional, interested student and his teacher. I have stayed in my classroom with a group of students discussing ideas and playing chess until the janitor kicked us out. I was the old gentleman, imparting my history, culture, personal loves and triumphs, defeats and failures to young kinsman.
Sometimes I fancied myself Tyrtaeus, the Spartan poet, who counseled the youth to honor and loyalty. I never had this kind intimacy with a black student, and I know of no other white teacher who did.
Teaching can be fun. For a certain kind of person it is exhilarating to mapout battles on chalkboards, and teach heroism. It is rewarding to challenge liberal prejudices, to leave my mark on these children, but what I aimed for with my white students I could never achieve with the blacks.
There is a kind of child whose look can melt your heart: some working-class castaway, in and out of foster homes, often abused, who is nevertheless almost an angel. Your heart melts for these children, this refuse of the modern world.
Many white students possess a certain innocence; their cheeks still blush. Try as I might, I could not get the blacks to care one bit about Beethoven or Sherman’s march to the sea, or Tyrtaeus, or Oswald Spengler, or even liberals like John Rawls, or their own history. They cared about nothing I tried to teach them. When this goes on year after year it chokes the soul out of a teacher, destroys his pathos, and sends him guiltily searching for The Bell Curve on the Internet.
Blacks break down the intimacy that can be achieved in the classroom, and leave you convinced that that intimacy is really a form of kinship. Without intending to, they destroy what is most beautiful—whether it be your belief in human equality, your daughter’s innocence, or even the state of the hallway.
Just last year I read on the bathroom stall the words “F**k Whitey.” Not two feet away, on the same stall, was a small swastika.
The National Council for the Social Studies, the leading authority on social science education in the United States, urges teachers to inculcate such values as equality of opportunity, individual property rights, and a democratic form of government. Even if teachers could inculcate this milquetoast ideology into whites, liberalism is doomed because so many non-whites are not receptive to education of any kind beyond the merest
basics.
It is impossible to get them to care about such abstractions as property rights or democratic citizenship. They do not see much further than the fact that you live in a big house and “we in da pro-jek.” Of course, there are a few loutish whites who will never think past their next meal and a few sensitive blacks for whom anything is possible, but no society takes on the characteristics of its exceptions.
Once I asked my students, “What do you think of the Constitution?” “It white,” one slouching black rang out. The class began to laugh. And I caught myself laughing along with them, laughing while Pompeii’s volcano simmers, while the barbarians swell around
the Palatine, while the country I love, and the job I love, and the community I love become dimmer by the day.
I read a book by an expatriate Rhodesian who visited Zimbabwe not too many years ago. Traveling with a companion, she stopped at a store along the highway. A black man materialized next to her car window. “Job, boss, (I) work good, boss,” he pleaded. “You
give job.”
“What happened to your old job?” the expatriate white asked. The black man replied in the straightforward manner of his race: “We drove out the whites. No more jobs. You give job.”
At some level, my students understand the same thing. One day I asked the bored, black faces staring back at me. “What would happen if all the white people in America disappeared tomorrow?”
“We screwed,” a young, pitch-black boy screamed back. The rest of the blacks laughed.
I have had children tell me to my face as they struggled with an assignment. “I cain’t do dis,” Mr. Jackson. “I black.”
The point is that human beings are not always rational. It is in the black man’s interest to have whites in Zimbabwe but he drives them out and starves. Most whites do not think black Americans could ever do anything so irrational. They see blacks on television smiling, fighting evil whites, embodying white values. But the real black is not on television, and you pull your purse closer when you see him, and you lock the car doors when he swaggers by with his pants hanging down almost to his knees.
For those of you with children, better a smaller house in a white district than a fancy one near a black school.
I have been in parent-teacher conferences that broke my heart: the child pleading with his parents to take him out of school; the parents convinced their child’s fears are groundless. If you love your child, show her you care— not by giving her fancy vacations or a car, but making her innocent years safe and happy. Give her the gift of a not-heavily black school.
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Speaking of cultural differences of the racial school children; Until recently I taught at a predominantly black high school in a southeastern state.
The mainstream press gives a hint of what conditions are like in black schools, but only a hint. Expressions journalists use like “chaotic” or “poor learning environment” or “lack of discipline” do not capture what really happens. There is nothing like the day-to-day experience of teaching black children and that is what I will try to convey.
Most whites simply do not know what black people are like in large numbers, and the first encounter can be a shock.
One of the most immediately striking things about my students was that they were loud. They had little conception of ordinary decorum. It was not unusual for five blacks to be screaming at me at once. Instead of calming down and waiting for a lull in the din to make their point—something that occurs to even the dimmest white students—blacks just
tried to yell over each other.
It did no good to try to quiet them, and white women were particularly inept at trying. I sat in on one woman’s class as she begged the children to pipe down. They just yelled louder so their voices would carry over hers.
Many of my black students would repeat themselves over and over again— just louder. It was as if they suffered from Tourette syndrome. They seemed to have no conception of waiting for an appropriate time to say something. They would get ideas in their heads and
simply had to shout them out. I might be leading a discussion on government and suddenly be interrupted: “We gotta get more Democrats! Clinton, she good!” The student may seem content with that outburst but two minutes later, he would suddenly start yelling again: “Clinton good!”
Anyone who is around young blacks will probably get a constant diet of rap music. Blacks often make up their own jingles, and it was not uncommon for 15 black boys to swagger into a classroom, bouncing their shoulders and jiving back.
They were yelling back and forth, rapping 15 different sets of words in the same harsh, rasping dialect. The words were almost invariably a childish form of boasting: “Who got
dem shine rim, who got dem shine shoe, who got dem shine grill (gold and silver dental caps)?” The amateur rapper usually ends with a claim—in the crudest terms imaginable—that all womankind is sexually devoted to him. For whatever reason, my students would often groan instead of saying a particular word, as in, “She suck dat aaahhhh (think of a long grinding groan), she f**k dat aaaahhhh, she lick dat aaaahhh.”
So many black girls dance in the hall, in the classroom, on the chairs, next to the chairs, under the chairs, everywhere. Once I took a call on my cell phone and had to step
outside of class. I was away about two minutes but when I got back the black girls had lined up at the front of the classroom and were convulsing to the delight of the boys.
Many black people, especially black women, are enormously fat. Some are so fat I had to arrange special seating to accommodate their bulk. I am not saying there are no fat white students—there are—but it is a matter of numbers and attitudes. Many black girls simply do not care that they are fat. There are plenty of white anorexics, but I have never met
or heard of a black anorexic.
“Black women be big Mr. Jackson,” my students would explain.
“Is it okay in the black community to be a little overweight?” I ask. Two obese black girls in front of my desk begin to dance, “You know dem boys lak juicy fruit, Mr. Jackson.” “Juicy” is a colorful black expression for the buttocks.
Blacks, on average, are the most directly critical people I have ever met: “Dat shirt stupid. Yo’ kid a bastard. Yo’ lips big.” Unlike whites, who tread gingerly around the subject of race, they can be brutally to the point. Once I needed to send a student to the office to deliver a message. I asked for volunteers, and suddenly you would think my classroom was a bastion of civic engagement. Thirty dark hands shot into the air. My students loved to leave the classroom and slack off, even if just for a few minutes, away from the eye of white authority. I picked a light-skinned boy to deliver the message. One
very black student was indignant: “You pick da half-breed.” And immediately other blacks take up the cry, and half a dozen mouths are screaming, “He half-breed.”
For decades, the country has been lamenting the poor academic performance of blacks and there is much to lament. There is no question, however, that many blacks come to school with a serious handicap that is not their fault. At home they have learned a dialect that is almost a different language. Blacks not only mispronounce words; their grammar is often wrong. When a black wants to ask, “Where is the bathroom?” he may actually say “Whar da badroom be?” Grammatically, this is the equivalent of “Where the bathroom is?” And this is the way they speak in high school. Students write the way they speak, so this is the language that shows up in written assignments.
It is true that some whites face a similar handicap. They speak with what I would call a “country” accent that is hard to reproduce but results in sentences such as “I’m gonna gemme a Coke.” Some of these country whites had to learn correct pronunciation and usage. The difference is that most whites overcome this handicap and learn to speak correctly; many blacks do not.
Most of the blacks I taught simply had no interest in academic subjects. I taught history, and students would often say they didn’t want to do an assignment or they didn’t like history because it was all about white people. Of course, this was “diversity” history, in which every cowboy’s black cook got a special page on how he contributed to winning the West, but black children still found it inadequate. So I would throw up my hands and assign them a project on a real, historical black person. My favorite
was Marcus Garvey. They had never heard of him, and I would tell them to research him, but they never did. They didn’t care and they didn’t want to do any work.
Anyone who teaches blacks soon learns that they have a completely different view of government from whites. Once I decided to fill 25 minutes by having students write about one thing the government should do to improve America. I gave this question to three classes totaling about 100 students, approximately 80 of whom were black. My few white students came back with generally “conservative” ideas. “We need to cut off people who don’t work,” was the most common suggestion. Nearly every black gave a variation on the theme of “We need more government services.”
My students had only the vaguest notion of who pays for government services. For them, it was like a magical piggy bank that never goes empty. One black girl was exhorting the class on the need for more social services and I kept trying to explain that people, real
live people, are taxed for the money to pay for those services. “Yeah, it come
from whites,” she finally said. “They stingy anyway.”
“Many black people make over $50,000 dollars a year and you would also be taking away from your own people,” I said.
She had an answer to that: “Dey half breed.” The class agreed. I let the subject drop.
Many black girls are perfectly happyto be welfare queens. On career day, one girl explained to the class that she was going to have lots of children and get fat checks from the government. No one in the class seemed to have any objection to this career choice.
Surprising attitudes can come out in class discussion. We were talking about the crimes committed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, and I brought up the rape of a young girl in the bathroom of the Superdome. A majority of my students believed this was a horrible crime but a few took it lightly. One black boy spoke up without raising his hand: “Dat no big deal. They thought they is gonna die so they figured they have some fun. Dey jus’ wanna have a fun time; you know what I’m sayin’?” A few black heads nodded in agreement.
My department head once asked all the teachers to get a response from all students to the following question: “Do you think it is okay to break the law if it will benefit you greatly?” By then, I had been teaching for a while and was not surprised by answers that left a young, liberal, white woman colleague aghast. “Yeah” was the favorite answer. As one student explained, “Get dat green.”
There is a level of conformity among blacks that whites would find hard to believe. They like one kind of music: rap. They will vote for one political party: Democrat. They dance
one way, speak one way, are loud the same way, and fail their exams in the same way. Of course, thereare exceptions but theyare rare.
Whites are different. Some like country music, others heavy metal, some prefer pop, and still others, God forbid, enjoy rap music. They have different associations, groups, almost ideologies. There are jocks, nerds, preppies, and hunters. Blacks are all— well—black, and they are quick to let other blacks know when they deviate from the norm.
One might object that there are important group differences among blacks that a white man simply cannot detect. I have done my best to find them, but so far as I can tell, they dress the same, talk the same, think the same. Certainly, they form rival groups, but the groups are not different in any discernible way. There simply are no groups of blacks that are as distinctly different from each other as white “nerds,” “hunters,” or “Goths,” for example.
How the world looks to blacks One point on which all blacks agree is that everything is “racis’.” This is one message of liberalism they have absorbed completely. Did you do your homework? “Na, homework racis’.” Why did you get an F on the test? “Test racis’.”
I was trying to teach a unit on British philosophers and the first thing the students noticed about Bentham, Hobbes, and Locke was “Dey all white! Where da black philosopher a’?” I tried to explain there were no blacks in eighteenth century Britain. You can probably guess what they said to that: “Dat racis’!” One student accused me of deliberately failing him on a test because I didn’t like black people.
“Do you think I really hate black people?”
“Yeah.”
“Have I done anything to make you feel this way? How do you know?”
“You just do.”
“Why do you say that?”
He just smirked, looked out the window, and sucked air through his teeth. Perhaps this was a regional thing, but the blacks often sucked air through their teeth as a wordless expression of disdain or hostility.
My students were sometimes unable to see the world except through the lens of their own blackness. I had a class that was host to a German exchange student. One day he put on a Power Point presentation with famous German landmarks as well as his school and family.
From time to time during the presentation, blacks would scream, “Where da black folk?!” The exasperated German tried several times to explain that there were no black people where he lived in Germany. The students did not believe him. I told them Germany is in Europe, where white people are from, and Africa is where black people are from. They
insisted that the German student was racist, and deliberately refused to associate with blacks.
Blacks are keenly interested in their own racial characteristics. I have learned, for example, that some blacks have “good hair.” Good hair is black parlance for black-white hybrid hair. Apparently, it is less kinky, easier to style, and considered more attractive.
Blacks are also proud of light skin.
Imagine two black students shouting insults across the room. One is dark but slim; the other light and obese. The dark one begins the exchange: “You fat, Ridario!” Ridario smiles, doesn’t deign to look at his detractor, shakes his head like a wobbling top, and says, “You wish you light skinned.”
They could go on like this, repeating the same insults over and over.
My black students had nothing but contempt for Hispanic immigrants. They would vent their feelings so crudely that our department strongly advised us never to talk about immigration in class in case the principal or some outsider might overhear.
Whites were “racis’,” of course, but they thought of us at least as Americans. Not the Mexicans. Blacks have a certain, not necessarily hostile understanding of white people. They know how whites act, and it is clear they believe whites are smart and are good at organizing things. At the same time, they probably suspect whites are just putting on an
act when they talk about equality, as if it is all a sham that makes it easier for whites to control blacks. Blacks want a bigger piece of the American pie. I’m convinced that if it were up to them they would give whites a considerably smaller piece than whites get now, but they would give us something. They wouldn’t give Mexicans anything.
What about black boys and white girls? No one is supposed to notice this or talk about it but it is glaringly obvious: Black boys are obsessed with white girls. I’ve witnessed the following drama countless times. A black boy saunters up to a white girl. The cocky black dances around her, not really in a menacing way. It’s more a shuffle than a threat. As he bobs and shuffles he asks, “When you gonna go wit’ me?”
There are two kinds of reply. The more confident white girl gets annoyed, looks away
from the black and shouts, “I don’t wanna go out with you!” The more demure girl will look at her feet and mumble a polite excuse but ultimately say no.
There is only one response from the black boy: “You racis’.” Many girls—all too many—actually feel guilty because they do not want to date blacks. Most white girls at my school stayed away from blacks, but a few, particularly the ones who were addicted to drugs, fell in with them.
There is something else that is striking about blacks. They seem to have no sense of romance, of falling in love. What brings men and women together is sex, pure and simple, and there is a crude openness about this. There are many degenerate whites, of course, but some of my white students were capable of real devotion and tenderness, emotions that seemed absent from blacks—especially the boys.
Black schools are violent and the few whites who are too poor to escape are caught in the storm. The violence is astonishing, not so much that it happens, but the atmosphere in which it happens. Blacks can be smiling, seemingly perfectly content with what they are doing, having a good time, and then, suddenly start fighting. It’s uncanny. Not long
ago, I was walking through the halls and a group of black boys were walking in front of me. All of a sudden they started fighting with another group in the hallway.
Blacks are extraordinarily quick totake offense. Once I accidentally scuffed a black boy’s white sneaker with my shoe. He immediately rubbed his body up against mine and threatened to attack me. I stepped outside the class and had a security guard escort the student to the office. It was unusual for students to threaten teachers physically this way,
but among themselves, they were quick to fight for similar reasons.
The real victims are the unfortunate whites caught in this. They are always in danger and their educations suffer. White weaklings are particularly susceptible, but mostly to petty violence. They may be slapped or get a couple of kicks when they are trying to open a bottom locker. Typically, blacks save the hard, serious violence for each other.
There was a lot of promiscuous sex among my students and this led to violence. Black girls were constantly fighting over black boys. It was not uncommon to see two girls literally ripping each other’s hair out with a police officer in the middle trying to break up the fight. The black boy they were fighting over would be standing by with a smile, enjoying the show he had created. For reasons I cannot explain, boys seldom fought over girls.
Pregnancy was common among the blacks, though many black girls were so fat I could not tell the difference. I don’t know how many girls got abortions, but when they had the baby they usually stayed in school and had their own parents look after the child. The
school did not offer daycare.
My black students had nothing but contempt for Hispanics. Whites were “racis’,” of course, but they thought of us at least as Americans.
Security guards are everywhere in black schools—we had one on every hall. They also sat in on unruly classes and escorted students to the office. They were unarmed, but worked closely with the three city police officers who were constantly on duty.
There was a lot of drug-dealing at my school. This was a good way to make a fair amount of money but it also gave boys power over girls who wanted drugs. An addicted girl—black or white—became the plaything of anyone who could get her drugs.
One of my students was a notorious drug dealer. Everyone knew it. He was 19 years old and in eleventh grade. Once he got a score of three out of 100 on a test. He had been locked up four times since he was 13.
One day, I asked him, “Why do you come to school?” He wouldn’t answer. He just looked out the window, smiled, and sucked air through his teeth. His friend Yidarius
ventured an explanation: “He get dat green and get dem females.”
“What is the green?” I asked. “Money or dope?” “Both,” said Yidarius with a smile.
A very fat black interrupted from across the room: “We get dat lunch,” Mr. Jackson. “We gotta get dat lunch and brickfuss.” He means the free breakfast and lunch poor students get every day. “*****, we know’d you be lovin’ brickfuss!” shouts another student.
Some readers may believe that I have drawn a cruel caricature of black students. After all, according to official figures some 85 percent of them graduate. It would be instructive to know how many of those scraped by with barely a C- record. They go from grade to grade and they finally get their diplomas because there is so much pressure on teachers to push them through. It saves money to move them along, the school looks good, and the teachers look good.
Many of these children should have been failed, but the system would crack under their weight if they were all held back.
How did my experiences make me feel about blacks? Ultimately, I lost sympathy for them. In so many ways they seem to make their own beds. There they were in an integrationist’s fantasy—in the same classroom with white students, eating the same lunch, using the same bathrooms, listening to the same teachers—and yet the blacks
fail while the whites pass.
One tragic outcome among whites who have been teaching for too long is that it can engender something close to hatred. One teacher I knew gave up fast food—not for health reasons but because where he lived most fast-food workers were black. He had enough of blacks on the job. This was an extreme example but years of frustration can
take their toll. Many of my white colleagues with any experience were well on their way to that state of mind.
There is an unutterable secret among teachers: Almost all realize that blacks do not respond to traditional white instruction. Does that put the lie to environmentalism?
Not at all. It is what brings about endless, pointless innovation that is supposed to bring blacks up to the white level. The solution is more diversity—or put more generally, the solution is change. Change is an almost holy word in education, and you can fail a million times as long as you keep changing. That is why liberals keep revamping the curriculum and the way it is taught. For example, teachers are told that blacks need hands on instruction and more group work.
Teachers are told that blacks are more vocal and do not learn through reading and lectures. The implication is that they have certain traits that lend themselves to a different kind of teaching.
Whites have learned a certain way for centuries but it just doesn’t work with blacks. Of course, this implies racial differences but if pressed, most liberal teachers would say different racial learning styles come from some indefinable cultural characteristic unique to blacks. Therefore, schools must change, America must change. But into what?
How do you turn quantum physics into hands-on instruction or group work? No
one knows, but we must keep changing until we find something that works.
Public school has certainly changed since anyone reading this was a student. I have a friend who teaches elementary school, and she tells me that every week the students get a new diversity lesson, shipped in fresh from some bureaucrat’s office in Washington or the state capital. She showed me the materials for one week: a large poster, about the size of a forty-two inch flat-screen television. It shows an utterly diverse group—I mean diverse: handicapped, Muslim, Jewish, effeminate, poor, rich, brown, slightly brown, yellow, etc.—sitting at a table, smiling gaily, accomplishing some undefined task. The poster comes with a sheet of questions the teacher is supposed to ask. One might be: “These kids sure look different, but they look happy. Can you tell me which one in
the picture is an American?”
Some eight-year-old, mired in ignorance, will point to a white child like himself. “That one.”
The teacher reads from the answer, conveniently printed along with the question. “No, Billy, all these children are Americans. They are just as American
as you.”
The children get a snack, and the poster goes up on the wall until another one comes a week later. This is what happens at predominately white, middle-class, elementary schools everywhere. Elementary school teachers love All of the Colors of the Race, by award-winning children’s poet Arnold Adoff.
These are some of the lines they read to the children: “Mama is chocolate … Daddy is vanilla … Me (sic) is better … It is a new color. It is a new flavor. For love. Sometimes blackness seems too black for me, and whiteness is too sickly pale; and I wish every one were golden. Remember: long ago before people moved and migrated, and mixed and
matched … there was one people: one color, one race. The colors are flowing from what was before me to what will be after. All the colors.”
Teaching as a career it may come as a surprise after what I have written, but my experiences have given me a deep appreciation for teaching as a career. It offers a stable, middle-class life but comes with the capacity to make real differences in the lives of
children. In our modern, atomized world children often have very little communication with adults—especially, or even, with their parents—so there is potential for a real transaction between pupil and teacher, disciple and master.
A rewarding relationship can grow up between an exceptional, interested student and his teacher. I have stayed in my classroom with a group of students discussing ideas and playing chess until the janitor kicked us out. I was the old gentleman, imparting my history, culture, personal loves and triumphs, defeats and failures to young kinsman.
Sometimes I fancied myself Tyrtaeus, the Spartan poet, who counseled the youth to honor and loyalty. I never had this kind intimacy with a black student, and I know of no other white teacher who did.
Teaching can be fun. For a certain kind of person it is exhilarating to mapout battles on chalkboards, and teach heroism. It is rewarding to challenge liberal prejudices, to leave my mark on these children, but what I aimed for with my white students I could never achieve with the blacks.
There is a kind of child whose look can melt your heart: some working-class castaway, in and out of foster homes, often abused, who is nevertheless almost an angel. Your heart melts for these children, this refuse of the modern world.
Many white students possess a certain innocence; their cheeks still blush. Try as I might, I could not get the blacks to care one bit about Beethoven or Sherman’s march to the sea, or Tyrtaeus, or Oswald Spengler, or even liberals like John Rawls, or their own history. They cared about nothing I tried to teach them. When this goes on year after year it chokes the soul out of a teacher, destroys his pathos, and sends him guiltily searching for The Bell Curve on the Internet.
Blacks break down the intimacy that can be achieved in the classroom, and leave you convinced that that intimacy is really a form of kinship. Without intending to, they destroy what is most beautiful—whether it be your belief in human equality, your daughter’s innocence, or even the state of the hallway.
Just last year I read on the bathroom stall the words “F**k Whitey.” Not two feet away, on the same stall, was a small swastika.
The National Council for the Social Studies, the leading authority on social science education in the United States, urges teachers to inculcate such values as equality of opportunity, individual property rights, and a democratic form of government. Even if teachers could inculcate this milquetoast ideology into whites, liberalism is doomed because so many non-whites are not receptive to education of any kind beyond the merest
basics.
It is impossible to get them to care about such abstractions as property rights or democratic citizenship. They do not see much further than the fact that you live in a big house and “we in da pro-jek.” Of course, there are a few loutish whites who will never think past their next meal and a few sensitive blacks for whom anything is possible, but no society takes on the characteristics of its exceptions.
Once I asked my students, “What do you think of the Constitution?” “It white,” one slouching black rang out. The class began to laugh. And I caught myself laughing along with them, laughing while Pompeii’s volcano simmers, while the barbarians swell around
the Palatine, while the country I love, and the job I love, and the community I love become dimmer by the day.
I read a book by an expatriate Rhodesian who visited Zimbabwe not too many years ago. Traveling with a companion, she stopped at a store along the highway. A black man materialized next to her car window. “Job, boss, (I) work good, boss,” he pleaded. “You
give job.”
“What happened to your old job?” the expatriate white asked. The black man replied in the straightforward manner of his race: “We drove out the whites. No more jobs. You give job.”
At some level, my students understand the same thing. One day I asked the bored, black faces staring back at me. “What would happen if all the white people in America disappeared tomorrow?”
“We screwed,” a young, pitch-black boy screamed back. The rest of the blacks laughed.
I have had children tell me to my face as they struggled with an assignment. “I cain’t do dis,” Mr. Jackson. “I black.”
The point is that human beings are not always rational. It is in the black man’s interest to have whites in Zimbabwe but he drives them out and starves. Most whites do not think black Americans could ever do anything so irrational. They see blacks on television smiling, fighting evil whites, embodying white values. But the real black is not on television, and you pull your purse closer when you see him, and you lock the car doors when he swaggers by with his pants hanging down almost to his knees.
For those of you with children, better a smaller house in a white district than a fancy one near a black school.
I have been in parent-teacher conferences that broke my heart: the child pleading with his parents to take him out of school; the parents convinced their child’s fears are groundless. If you love your child, show her you care— not by giving her fancy vacations or a car, but making her innocent years safe and happy. Give her the gift of a not-heavily black school.
A Teacher's Rendition of Blacks in Inner City Schools
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