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Thanks, the 2nd tank will be between the Power Factor Pipe & the flywheel cover, will post pics shortly
Blaster 200 HP Carbon Fibre Blaster with 155mm Pump
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Sounds like a great idea, a big brushless motor with lithium ion or lithium polimar batteries cramed in there would be awesome!With the ingenuity, craftmanship, and design you all are showing why don't you just develop an electric hybrid engine that produces twice the horsepower for half the weight then you don't even have to worry about the gas tank.
Just imagine the linear power curve of the electric setup compared to the in-efficient curve of a petrol motor, your arms would rip out of your shoulders, but then again I'm just a sucker for the sound of 200 horses under your feet, screaming back at you in 2-stroke language.
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This is the rear tank for the Blaster, it sits between the Power Factor pipe & the flywheel cover.
We made a carbon fibre cradle to match the base of a 9 litre go-kart tank, bonded 3 alloy threaded blocks to the 2 flanges & bolted stainless rubber strap holders to the base.
2 straps hold the tank securely without any movement.
The base is then bonded to the hull in whatever postion you choose.
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The hood is one of the parts we are most proud of, it was designed by a combination of feedback from riders & racers, airbox knowledge from our GP racing development background & functionality.
The purpose of re-designing the hood was to meet the following requirements:
-Allow twice the volume of air as oem hood.
-Supply a positive cold air pressure to the engine bay.
-To work with cutaway in the bulkhead to allow the complete hull to act as a slight pressurized airbox.
-Greatly reduce water entering the hull.
-To hold the front of the seat without seat clips.
-Securely hold the UMI steering system.
-Have a dash to hold tacho,etc that is protected from glare & is on a suitable angle to be easily read by rider.
-Capability of direct mounting steering & trim cable & rem-con trim system.
-Be one-piece.
-Lighter than oem.
-Much stronger than oem.
This was not easy to achieve & actually took more time to design & make the moulds than the hull & all of the rest of the carbon parts put together.
There is 35 pieces that make up the hood inluding alloy threaded blocks & stainless nuts bonded internally for mounting items.
Above are some pics of the foam/bodyfiller hood in various stages. The first pic is the hood getting ready to be primed before the mould can be made.
The air intakes are twice the volume as oem & the angle of the vents are greatly changed to capture air more effectively.
We added a key line around the dash/steering area for the purpose of seperating this area as a defined line as to have a carbon finish dash area & the rest of the hood painted.
The other pics are of the hood primed & ready to start making the mould of the top.
We have had the ski laying on it's side for 1 minute after being spat off in both the surf & the river, up-righted the ski & came straight to shore to see how much water the hull took. On both occassions the complete engine bay had a fine mist of water all over it, but not even enough water for the bildge to pickup.
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sounds like a very trick hood,nice work
Hood looks great! I have dabbled in making my own hood so I know how much work is involved in what you have there. You guys do awesome work, and seem to not settle for anything sub par. Much respect! IMO, I would ditch the powerfactor pipe and find an Octane pipe. Powerfactor was designed off of the Octane/type 9 pipe, just straightend out from the looks of it and maybe a little longer. The Octane pipe wraps around the engine so you can run the stock fuel tank and not have to shove all that weight into the nose of the ski with those kart tanks. Our 8 mill mods hit like mules out the hole and reved great with that pipe. Either way, it's still an awesome build. Can't wait to hear the results.
JAM
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Thanks for the great comment, yes it will bolt straight on the oem hull.
Our topdeck in appearance looks pretty much stock (that's why the hood will attatch to mod or oem topdeck), we did this on the feedback from you guys that suggested keeping the topdeck looking oem for competition purposes.
We have changed some lines, re-made the fire extinguisher hole, filled in the oil level viewer, etc, but apart from this the topdeck looks oem.
We seriously considered making hoods seperately, as when we made the first Carbon Blaster we received an unbelievable amount of emails from around the world asking to purchase the hood.
The main comments that people made to us about the oem hood was it let in too much water & could quickly sink the ski in a spill, constantly kept cracking & breaking, very heavy.
After looking at the whole project, we decided at this stage we would only supply the hood with the complete ski.
The main reasons were the massive time that went into designing & producing the hood, the hood is an integral part of the Carbon Blaster as the hood/hull/bulkhead combined works as a giant air box, would take away from the complete Carbon Blaster package to supply the hood seperately.
Our initial goal was to make a ski that was the best we could do, to attempt to come close to making the ultimate Blaster. It was not our goal to make parts of a ski, though may look at this down the track, but at this stage we will supply the hull, hood, rideplate & seatbase as a complete package.
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Thanks Master Blaster, great name by the way!
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Thanks Jam, always respect your feedback.
I've seen your hood you designed, it's a great job & looks as if it supplies heaps of air, they are time consuming hey?
This was the only part of the ski that really surprised us with how long it would take to make (both to design & infuse) & how much materials are in the hood. It's really deceptive when you flatten out the outer hood & inner airbox patterns & lay them out as to how big this thing really is!
Will post pics of the hood painted, it's starting to look pretty sweet we think.
The octane pipe is a pipe I have not looked into, as we have been happy with the results from the Power Factor pipe.
Would be cool to see pics of your setup with your pipe & oem tank.
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The first pic is the outer hood straight out of the mould.
The air intake/dash/steering area up to the key line is the area we focused on for a carbon finish only & to be clearcoated. The rest of the outer hood is designed to be painted, this is why we were not at all concerned with how the carbon looked outside of this key line.
In the future, we will use carbon twill for any carbon finish areas as twill is many time easier to lay neatly into a mould with many bends & shapes. The only reason we used plain weave carbon on these 2 skis is strictly as a bit of promo to show a bit of what we could do, as plain weave is a huge b**ch to make sit in difficult shapes & would make these 2 skis unique as they would be Gary's & my personal skis. We could also afford to spend the extra time working the plain weave with our own skis.
The next 2 pics are showing the difference between an oem hood & the new carbon hood.
The vents aren't fully opened up yet in pic 3 as the hood has just come straight from the mould & not properly trimmed at this stage.
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A sideview shot of the oem hood versus the new hood
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It's going to be a blast Mat, not sure if you could quite make to the outer atmosphere launching off an 8'er at full noise, but I'm sure there's someone mad enough out there to give it a go!
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The front of the seat sticking out all the time or releasing from the clips was an issue we wanted to fix.
These are pics of the our first Blaster that was painted in pearl orange, but shows the carbon plate that holds the front of the seat in place. In these pics the hood still uses the oem front seat bracket, but after teasting we removed them & found they weren't needed.
The carbon plate is moulded to the shape of the seat as well as the curves of the hood & sits in a reccess in the hood with 4 countersink screws.
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The first pic is of the inside of the hood with cables, remcon, UMI steering & all fittings attached. This photo is from our first Carbon Blaster that ran a modified B-Pipe & oem tank.
The next 2 pics are of the dash/vents area just after this area was clearcoated.
The final 2 pics are of the hood after the dash/vents area has been masked up to the key line & the rest of the hood body has been sprayed in 2 pack epoxy primer.
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Looks like you could be the man for the job Cambo!
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