Phantom 031 'WARLORD'

[Shelbysteve]

Jon all you had to do is have a drink at the plum and feathers in crondall and we would of told you were Warlord was!

My step-fathers farm backs on to the barn where warlord was! My step-bro has a tractor sales business there!

the watts family (rose Farm dairy fleet lived down the bottom fields of my stepfathers and mums current farm in Ewshot! the're Bladerunners workshop is on a farm just outside crondall.

Dont tell me one of you guys here went to school at peirrepont in frensham, I did too!

Crondalls turned into the center of powerboating! by the look of it! simon and stuarts huntsman was used in the filming of 007 thunderbolt and my father had Boffins coffin that was kepted with us in Ewshot, oh and the Limit Ups were only in farnborough 7 miles away.

[TimB-C]

I was in Waterloo House, at Pierrepont House School

[Shelbysteve]

There you go I was with captin Kirks ship! Coombe and dont tell me you used to sneak off to the mariners too

[topcat]

Originally Posted by Shelbysteve

Jon all you had to do is have a drink at the plum and feathers in crondall and we would of told you were Warlord was!

My step-fathers farm backs on to the barn where warlord was! My step-bro has a tractor sales business there!

the watts family (rose Farm dairy fleet lived down the bottom fields of my stepfathers and mums current farm in Ewshot! the're Bladerunners workshop is on a farm just outside crondall.

Dont tell me one of you guys here went to school at peirrepont in frensham, I did too!

Crondalls turned into the center of powerboating! by the look of it! simon and stuarts huntsman was used in the filming of 007 thunderbolt and my father had Boffins coffin that was kepted with us in Ewshot, oh and the Limit Ups were only in farnborough 7 miles away.

Now that sounds like the place to live.

[TimB-C]

No but went sailing every day at the Pond and the hotel after!! it was 196 ??????? something and used to do the milking down the farm, beaten for poaching in the river !!! oh happy days..............finally got slung out.....

[Shelbysteve]

Yes its a nice place to be!

we even have a girl that horse events and now drives a Aston martin DBR9 gt1 that shes be driving in Lemans this year! liz halliday

I worked for John Welch "Rallycross" after school, he lives in fleet

I have a close friend called Rob collard that race's and Doctor jonathan palmer lived down the road in dogmersfield, so theres alot of petrolheads here in one form or the other! Plus the countryside is nice too.

[Shelbysteve]

Originally Posted by TimB-C

No but went sailing every day at the Pond and the hotel after!! it was 196 ??????? something and used to do the milking down the farm, beaten for poaching in the river !!! oh happy days..............finally got slung out.....

I was there in the 80s! Did you know there a website for the old schoolboys!


http://www.pierrepont-school.net/

[Jon Fuller]

Just got this picture from Graham Stevens.

Dunnit make it look small!!

Still, I've measured it and it's definitely 31 feet long.

[Blue mist]

Looking small or not, still does it for me.

[littlenige]

Ditto. And it rocked in the noise department too.

[Jon Fuller]

Some spoils from the deal, Kiekheafer 300S K-Planes. still boxed and a Kiekheafer control, also new.

[Matt]

Lucky Angela.

[Jon Fuller]

Originally Posted by Matt

Lucky Angela.

Yes, as long as she never starts taking me for granted!

[littlenige]

Just turn 'em upside down and tell her they´re for hanging on the wall displaying ornaments.

[MikeOakley]

I´ve seen @ 500c.i. exactly similar Mercruiser highperf engines for sale at a raceshop for 10K, I don´t think anyone is interested ?
I Also know of a pair of vintage Merc 482s with trumpets up north that at the moment ain´t for sale.

[Jon Fuller]

This one is a 482 EFI

[MikeOakley]

I know of mechanical fuel injected 482´s but not EFI...thought they were 500c.i. as per UIM class1 rule ( or was it that the limit was at the time 8 liters..then 482 would fit the bill) or a 540 endurance engine that there was only a handful made.
Maybe the factory supported teams got 500´s and the "customers" got only 482 EFIs ?

Edit: looked at the picture of the engine and I think I can see the EFinjectors and a Throttle position sensor.
Indeed that would then be a 482 EFI.. a rare piece.

[Jon Fuller]

ere ya go.

There's no question as to whether it's an EFI, it's the capacity and year that I can't be sure of.
I'm led to believe the boat got a complete new engine/drive setup (CLE SSM MkIII) when it was built in '82, but there is also talk of that motor failing, and it getting one of Michael Doxfords spare motors from his class one boat, so can't be sure at all.
However, the engine picture earlier in this thread was taken at it's first race (definitely the original new motor), the engine I have appears to be that engine, or at least it looks identical in every way.

[MikeOakley]

Lets try to decipher it...
Check the casting numbers on the block and try to find them here http://www.mortec.com/.
A 454 can´t be bored to be a "500" (4.5 bore, siamesed cylinders short stroke) block so stroking it a quarter of an inch would give you 482 in std.size 488 030_over and 496 060_over.
So to reproduce one is just as easy as to find a 454 with the right casting and stroke it and use them "7/16 bolt" steel rods.
New aftermarket steel cranks can be had for 500 pounds.
You could also might find Randy Garcia At Cobra Motors, Florida helpful, and Kinsler offcourse.

Efi engines did come around 1982 the first time so the 482 you got there do fit the bill.
All of them EFI´s are handbuilt.

[Jon Fuller]

Some more pics.

I don't have any pics of the pistons/rods here with me, but they look luuuuuvly, Corrillo, very sweet.

Will check out that site, thanks.