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Don't know if I' gonna make it to the first one. If you've seen my build project you will know what I mean.

Tray and footholds ready for a layer of glass so I can bag in the carbon. Nose cap ready to be bonded in.

So I re-enforced my exhaust (almost seems a shame to cover it), got foam in and finished bilge floor. I need anybodies opinion. Placing my footholds. I have never done this and I need to know if I have them in about the right spot. I have the toes 13" from the lower dash panel. I do have...

Between my wedding anniversary on Sat and mothers day on Sun all I could get done was to bond in water lines, cut down that sheet of blue insulation board to fill bottom of the tray and since I sanded bottom of the bilge I ground out and filled the couple of voids left from vacuum bagging. Hope...

I will be shipping it out tomorrow to you. After all I've done it would be silly not to have it re-built.

Just fitting my midshaft bearing and noticed a little side to side play with the shaft. Is this normal and if not how much is allowable or someone good to rebuild it.

I got the Sheffield kevlar scissors from Easy Composites . I love these things. Cuts 19oz carbon no problem no rubber on the handle so you can cleanup with acetone. $76 shipped from the UK and these will outlive me.

Since most of the nose cap will be hand laid up I bagged up the nose of the hull just to make sure I had a good bond. I did have to cut out the hood channel for now, really made it easy to work there. I'll just re-attach it when I do the cap

Well Played. That is sharp

Got exhaust pipe bonded in, nose cap core roughed, nose bond line done. I was thinking of leaving the exhaust pipe coming out like in the pic. Any reason that it would be better to flush it.

Bulkhead done. Four hrs of grinding and sanding on floor and it is ready for clearcoat.

So I've showed a bunch of successful lay ups. Inexperience caught up with me. Total fail on bilge floor. Structurally fine and I got a good bond on last ply, but I decided to bag it because I couldn't get a clean hand lay up. Bagged it with no peel ply to get shiny finished surface. Problem...

It will be a little wider than stock from the bulkhead back to the footholds. From footholds back the tray walls will be about an inch thick all the way back with a slight heel lock in. With the honeycomb that I put on the outboard tray walls, right now there is no flex in them at all. I know...

Did bilge floor. It left a couple voids but nothing to worry about. I will be hand laying a finish piece down on floor. Once I do the bulkhead I can start getting my tray together.

It's gonna be close. I have still got a lot of work to do.

Hull shortening done. Gotta luv the 19oz carbon for quick structural build up. The whole mod was 3 plies of the 19oz, 3plies 5oz and one ply fiberglass mat for the core.

I know everybody is probably getting sick of bagging pics, but how about a double bagger. Thought I'd throw a pic of vacuum pump also since people have asked. If you'd like to try bagging this is a sweet setup, I'm constantly thinking of what else I can make with carbon fiber

I'm down with possibly both. Maybe we should move the forum, the natives are getting restless.:D

I have the build going on here check it out. http://www.x-h2o.com/index.php?threads/keepin-it-square-first-time-build.144423/

Not one to realize I am in over my head I decided to cut the rear three in since I do not want to have to open it back up to do this in the future. I went with the angle cut, I just kind of like how it looks. Made a the caps with a molded in drain plug recess so they would sit level. just have...