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Little more progress in the last week. I powder coated the engine witha llittle help from jakobi86 in illusion crab apple. The rest of the engine will still be the oem color metallic blue. Should be getting my cylinder and top end kit back from the maniac sometime next then I can build the...

Thanks guys...id say in the 150-200 hours range not exactly sure been but been working on it pretty consistently since the end of September. Just hoping to have it ready once the water is warm enough to ride up here

Got a little more work done last weekend. Sanded the foam around the pole area and layed glass over that. Layed microballoons and resin on some portions of the tray, around the nose, and hood. The nose is now ready for complete microballons and finish shaping before paint. I got some engine...

4ft wake probably doable. I am working on a similar setup but took 5" off the back and rockered the nose. Same motor setup but single 44. I think my hull and hood alone will be pushing 130lbs. Im hoping to roll. Not much hope for a back flip off any sized wake with my riding ability

Couple things that I could probably add as I went through this pretty quick. I cut about 5 inches off the back and ~4 inches off the front. I weighed the hull and hood before I started the nose work and it was ~110 lbs. I guess it will be in the 130 lb range by the time i'm finished. Yeah its...

Then I built a little mold out of styro foam and duct tape to form the pole area of the nose. I thought this turned out really well. I also decided to go with a RN pole instead of the AC aluminum one that came on it because I thought I was going to be shortening it but once I moved the bracket...

More pictures of the nose and reinforcing

Then I moved onto the nose. Here I wanted to rocker and move the pole forward about 5". I cut the bottom of the deck from the sides and then cut some slits in the sides to pull the bottom of the nose up. I also put two relief cuts in the bottom of the hull to make it bend up easier. Then I laid...

pictures of lowering the hood. Cut out the liner and planned on making it flush across the top. Made some molds out of foam and layered them with duct tape to lay the glass over. Layed 2 layers of 1708 on the open holes where the hood was lowered then layed 2 layers of 1708 over the whole inside...

pictures of rebuilding the tray/ installing foot holds. To be cheap I reused the tom21 holds that I pulled out of the tray when it was defoamed. Foam used for the tray was the pink stuff from home depot and US composites 4lb 2-part expanding foam. Then for some of the little fill in stuff I just...

Now that I've been building this ski for a couple of months now I've decided to post some pictures and comments on the build. First off the first is a picture of some ski's that Jakobi86 and myself built last spring when we first got into this sport. Just a couple of SN's that got stripped...

Thanks! Got my tray mostly cleaned out and the rear cut down tonight. Im interested to see how your going to lay your turf over the tops of the tray sides

Mikey thanks for sharing the build! This is a beautiful ski with exceptional craftsmanship! I have a few questions for you as I start to do some similar work to my ski. What did u lay over the styro foam in the tray before you covered it with tape? Why did u cover the tray and gunwalls with tape...

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Graphics usually aren't cheap and pending how u ride it will look like cheap really fast. I wouldn't suggest spray painting the plastics as it will chip real easy. Better off buying a graphics kit or new black plastics. My look like cheap from my knee pads rubbing on them and wiping out. It just...

Regardless of the ban you should post some final pics of the ski! What did u use to paint the hull black? Starting to paint my sn sj this week and were going with gel coat but I hear its a paint to spray Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk

If it was cold the tranny oil maybe dragging a little other wise your clutch maybe worn a little. There could be a groove wore into your basket just from normal use. Sometimes you can pull your clutch cover off and file down the edge of the basket and it helps a little Sent from my SCH-I535...

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I have been using rubella t the white bottles in my quad and cr250 for both engine oil and tranny/clutch oil. Haven't had any problems yet. It was recommended to me over on thumpertalk Sent from my SCH-I535 using Tapatalk