CLETUS MCFARLAND, PIE CUTS, BROKEN PARTS AND A NEW PERSONAL BEST IN WIFEY'S WHIP! 

Told ya that elbow was hurting ya! I wanna go for another ride :)

Your wife is going to be so happy with these improvements you are making to her boat!

As someone who works with low voltage signals around high voltage/current noise, you have to be super careful with the routing of the shielded low voltage wires. Do not concern yourself with neatness, keep the low voltage signal wires far away from high voltage things like spark plug wires or high current wiring like are feeding the coils and injectors. I wouldn't even have the crank and cam sensor wiring bundled in the same harness. Also they can only cross at close to 90 degrees if they must cross each other. Anytime wires run parallel near each other, you will get some signal cross talk, even if the wires are shielded. I deal with this problem building the tube HIFI amplifiers I make, and "lead dress" as we call it is key to not introducing noise into the low level input signal. The other key is ensuring the wire shield is actually grounded at the ECU end so it's functioning as a shield. A digital device like these engine ECU's can ignore noise up to a point, and then after that, the signal turns into garbage. I highly doubt it's a "bad connection" given the super low current we are talking about. I am curious what the output of that crank sensor looks like on a scope, and if I was having this issue, I would put some sort of a data logging scope at the ECU end of the sensor wire to see what exactly is happening to the signal when it fails. Is there a ton of extraneous noise or does the sine wave flatten out? Even just looking at the scope pattern at the ECU in real time with the engine running at different RPM's might point to the problem. My guess is the wiring is picking up noise that overwhelms the signal due to the routing of the signal wiring.

cleetus helicoptering around is some really baller shit.

Mike, i love that ur the kind of boss who hold the workpiece while the other guy throws the hammer.

Unless it's farther away than it looks on video, you have a plug wire right against the purple signal out wire from the crank sensor at the end of the harness where it isn't shielded.

Beautiful boat, your wife is so lucky to have you build a magnificent water craft 😎👍. Best of luck getting everything ready for drag week.

I saw ya make a test hit last week and it was glorious! Made my day! I tried to holler at ya'll after ya pulled her out. Those turbos echoing off that glassy water was eargasmic!

The pop off on the jet drive needs a safety switch that pops it if the ignition cuts.... maybe a .25 delay. Fast enough to prevent a submarine but not so fast that it pops on a momentary glitch.

That pup just plain rips now! Sounded great, too! Have fun! ✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦

That bird at 23:06 sounds like an old Powerstroke attempting to start 😆

Didn't even get the chance to scare Cletus with the boat, but watching your face turn as the magic happened was priceless.

Wow you actually listened to us internet commentors who know nothing about fab. I hope the bigger y cut is working. Love the videos keep them coming.

Air intake temperature is key, air density = hp. Sweet ass boat love your builds.

I used to live in Cleetus' neck of the woods. Good to see him in GA visiting Finnegans Garage!

Yeah, it’s amazing how much restriction just a slightly too small tube can have on airflow. When remodeling my old kitchen, I tried to move the exhaust vent ducting into the floor joists above, but had to cut the diameter by 2” to get it to fit. That caused too much back pressure to run the fan on anything but the lowest setting.

I wanna see more building...isn't it amazing how much you can learn about fabricating when trying to make your own stuff in your garage, even in that short time from the 1st time you built it look at the welding and the fit how much better you improved everything about it getting to take the time to redo it again 😀

Awesome I love the way how you explain everything can't never stop learning and that boat is a bad boy !!!

Newburn looked like the village blacksmith with that set up lol I love it!!!

Nice to see you having a good time with the water machine. (Minus the trouble). Way to skim the water surface.

Heck of a Turbo Setup, "Blows the Fire Right Out". Good Job!

Mike is my spirit animal. I live vicariously through him. 😀🤘

The thickness of the red paint is keeping the sensor out of the block just enough to cause an issue. My thought only

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Watching that first part with Cleet and the IAS I realized I realy like your neighbors house.

Awesome video! You guys really are getting it done! Thanks for sharing , Kevin

Fantastic to see the science behind a performance engine!

Great episode! Love watching the fabrication stuff and testing new things!

I have been a mechanic for over 30 years and one thing that has been in my tool box all that time is Silly Putty. I the case of your crank sensor would put a small piece on the trigger wheel, install the sensor, pull it back out, pick the putty out carefully to see your gap. You can cut the putty with a razer blade and get a pretty good measurement. If there is some room sand some paint off the block. If it is like the crank sensors I have been around it doesn't hurt the sensor if it rubs a little plastic off the end. I have mostly worked on larger diesel engines.

I love that pie cut trick

Love the fab and test video's. Learn something with every one of them.

Two of the best on YT on a jet boat? Win!!

Crazy how one small change can make that much difference. Very cool!

The ball bearing welded on the bar as a hammering tool is a nice idea. Great for removing dents from tubing to if you can reach them.

Thank you for posting all the great videos on your channel

Might be a silly observation, but when you were looking at the crank sensors, they were facing each other ( mirror image). They were not orientated the same way, so of course the mounting plates looked off. Only the centre lines of the plates would be the same. Cool boat and nice fabbing btw. 👍

Your wife is going to be thrilled with these results. She’ll be able to be first to all of her favourite fishing spots. Nice going guys.👍👍🇨🇦😳

So glad you were open to ideas. So cool to see the Holley data back up the physics/design change. Rad boat. Hope you are getting bigger and bigger smiles. Good luck with Blasphemy.

Mike I love your show and all the goodies you get to play with im a 28+ experienced automotive technician small details can be so important even as small as the thickness of the red engine paint between the crank sensor mating surface and having that paint cleaned off! In my experience just that slight change in air gap between the sensor and crank ring gear can mess up the whole day of having fun

Boats? No. Dag Week?!! FTW!! But seriously, 42min Finnegan video? I was here for that.

No advice. What you do is awesome. Keep it up, love the videos they give me something to look forward too. Thanks champ.

That cold cut saw is awesome. I really should get one.

Always a good day when you drop a new video

always good to see a finnegan video

Great episode. All sorts of fun learning.

super content for folks that pay attention and tune.. well done and fire me up.. good job guys

The Basphemi is a bad ass car. I rewind and watch you pulling that wheelie. Keep up the good work 😀

55 in the back of the intro should be a must on every episode all time dream car man keep up the awesome vids

Great fab work!!!! Awesome episode!!!!!

Mike, I would bet that the lake water temp also went up somewhat between your 111 and your 117 mph runs, making your changes even more significant. Spinning the pump almost 300 more rpm and climbing faster in rpm would probably indicate a couple hundred more hp, and the cooler inlet temp would be safer for detonation. Awesome before/after investigative work and results!

Thank You. La Pine Oregon. Like you we moved out of California in 17 from San Diego old old hot rod guy and his lady here

Even the thickness of the paint on your block can be just enough to throw off the cps !!! clean off the paint to the mating surface !!! i used a little play-do on the end of my cps, measured it, cleaned it off, to set my shim height, worked for me !!!

The cross-sectional area of a tube increases a lot more with increases in diameter than most people realize. The cross-sectional area of a 4" tube is 2.56 times the area of a 2.5" tube. So you actually have more area in the elbow now than the 2 tubes coming from the turbo, so absolutely no restriction.

The cross sectional area of two 2.5" pipes are about 9.8 in2, which is about equal to a single 3.5" pipe at 9.6 in2. Great work as always! Things change of course as the shape changes to more oblong.

it's ugly, but it works great. I'm glad I was one of the ones who said something. You're welcome, internet!

The mullet giraffe 🦒 😳 has HIS OWN HELECOPTOR! 3 time I seen it in video..shure would like to see the video of his getting it .CLEETUS!!! No holding out on your peeps.

I'm so glad you finally fixed that elbow, its been making me twitch since you made it and first commented on it lol

I was driving through Oregon and there was a beautiful 70 series Ford hauling a jet boat going the opposite direction. I instantly thought of you and your jet boats.

I would put some shielding on the wires running to the crank sensor to prevent EMI.

Fantastic film and editing!

Nice work guys...👍 Science the heck out of it...✨ Keyboards for the win...🏁

I love this man I remember the early days of seing finnegans garage on roadkill and hot rod before he got his own show I just watch these as I relax in my room after a long day of work hope to turn my side room and carport into a shop aswell I got my compressor my welder I got all the jacks and tools I need to get jobs done but I want to learn how to do more custom jobs we are currently in the process of swaping a 5.3 vortec into a 2001grand Cherokee doing everything ourselves ported 706 heads and stage 2 tsp cam with bee hive springs and ls6 lifters gonna be my first ls swap but I’m familar with camming them

Sometimes the thickness of the paint or rust build up where the sensor mounts to makes a clearance issue.

Was badass to see the process and work put in to make a custom turbo piping

Heck ya good stuff!

Another cool trick I picked up for cps while working on top fuel cars, is to wrap the sensor clearance with 8 gauge copper wire to make a spring and use dielectric grease

Great content thanks for sharing

Put a wider washer on the crank sensor retention bolt to make the holding tab more rigid...the factory tab is weak and will flex because it’s not made for high crankcase pressure which can push out the sensor and increase the gap... a thick fender washer will cure the “bends” and keep the sensor to wheel clearance tight.

I really like the boat stuff.

Great video , beautiful boat for sure.Really looking forward to Blasphemi . Thanks.

Awesome to see how the boat is coming, but I'm so excited to see a return for Blasphemi!

Great Vid guys.

Pie cuts? Hell yea. Also yea, the cooler you get intake temps, the more dense the air is, allowing you to achieve more air in the same volume of space. Something fun that i would like to mess around with in the future is using Bernoulli’s theorem to make turbo routing that doesn’t restrict but changes pipe diameters to increase the pressure, in turn increasing the density.

That boat sounds like it’s making another 300-400hp.A suggestion-try to get the spark plug wire away from the sensor wire . There might be some kind of emf interference going in .

Damn I love that boat! It Rips! Gotta figure out why it shut off after that run, hopefully it doesn’t continue to be an issue!

Great job boys! from Mivhigan!

I would look at the crank case pressure and see if there is a correlation between that and the loss of crank signal. Being that it is a boosted application, you could be making so much case pressure that it is actually pushing the sensor away from the crank and creating too much gap. In that event, if that is the issue, maybe a belt driven vacuum pump could keep the case under vacuum and hold the sensor in the correct location. Maybe I'm an idiot but it's worth a look. I love what your doing and wish you and yours the best!

When you placed the sensors side by side, you can notice that the mounting tab metal it a small bit thicker. Perhaps, there is an issue with the securing tab changing temp, moving the sensor and causing additional gap. One way I would test this is to add a washer or small metal tab on top of the securing tab to help stabilize it during heat cycles. The difference in 1mm can cause the system to fault.

Get er up to 120 mph wifi will be happy lol 😂

The blacked out wheels look killer

Yall boatin for speed and Cleeter is fishing for trolls!!! Ha ha ha awesome boys!!!!

Lmao! Dude you and Garrett colabs are theeeeee best. Too fuvkin funny!!!

Basic thermodynamic theory is when you compress a gas it gets hot, expand it and it cools. Temp at the restriction would be warmer, but immediately after it would drop again. If anything the restriction might have a very very slight inter-cooling effect, but the restriction will reduce flow, and hence performance.

Giọng Đức Phúc đỉnh quá đi mất. Nó kiểu mộc mạc, ko màu mè và nghe rất chân thành ấy ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Mong 1 ngày sẽ được ngồi ở trời Đà Lạt và nghe Phúc hát 🎵

Unrelated, but sitting here watching this on laptop while simultaneously watching FwF "S-15 Truck Redemption" on TV, both are very entertaining.

Top log shows real time

I Love your channel,Huge fan of roadkill but Finnegan's Garage rocks😁

I have watched you go from a hack to a excellent welder. You are bad ass now 🤗👍🙌✌️

That was awesome

bet those fishermen are like oh hell there that damn boat again lol

Those aluminum TIG welds looking 🔥🔥

Good to see you guys Enjoyed Can't wait to see Blasphemi making passes

Mikey, in the video where you are showing the reluctor bore with the sender removed, it showed what looks like a piece of metal on one of the reluctor tabs.

I always keep a set of sensor pins around to perform pin drag tests. These terminals have a way of losing connection when they've been tampered with. Also, solder the terminal to the wire just after the seal, cheap insurance.

JFYI guys, you can set Holley Data logging to "System Log" and it will record the actual crank and cam signals (including when/where it looses sync). As busy as you are you'll probably need help with what your looking at (and or what to look for) but Data is the King when it comes to trouble shooting (vs WAG-ing) 🤔

Cool stuff 😎 👍

Random pro-tip for 26:20: if you don't want your phone sliding out of your boardshort pocket, fold the entire pocket towards the back of your leg after putting it in there. You do this by holding your phone in your pocket, turning the back of your hand towards your leg and pushing the whole pocket back. Saves you from tucking it under your pant leg and risking dropping it after you forget it is there when you stand up. I've been there too many times.

🤣 Cleetus checking out who's in the driveway! 🤣

I like the code "wife's boat" to keep you out of the dog house and on her goodside !! 👍👍😂😂

It appears that the reluctor wheel is damaged. In industry I believe it is common to space the sensor away from the wheel at 1/2 the diameter of the sensor. Does it not come with instructions? Regardless I love your channel. The chemistry between Finnegan, Newburn and Cotton is awesome. More Michael Wayne!