Alum hull you say!?
- Thread starter MADMAT
- Start date
- Location
- Taupo NZ
Before I even clicked the link I said "I bet that's in new zealand". Quite popular here just about every major town has a shop making bad ass aluminum jet boats.
we run the rivers on jet skis too. An alloy hull wouldn't be a bad idea...
we run the rivers on jet skis too. An alloy hull wouldn't be a bad idea...
- Location
- detroit MI
like a dream to run that fast and hard up a stream.
makes me feel like i nee a thin piece of Al up the center of my x2 and go rip it hard. how much trouble u think ill get in doing this in america?? lol
makes me feel like i nee a thin piece of Al up the center of my x2 and go rip it hard. how much trouble u think ill get in doing this in america?? lol
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- Location
- Texas
Just gonna post this since it'll come up eventually. Friend of a friend makes these in Alaska
http://www.alumaski.com/
http://www.alumaski.com/
- Location
- Taupo NZ
pretty cool, how much does a bare hull weigh... think you could get him to make a pole ski or something blaster sized?
5x12-450lbs(bare hull) FI 4cyl. What pushing the jet boats?
- Location
- Taupo NZ
Depends, some of the smaller ones are jetski based ones like this with a Kawi 15F motor and pump:
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/boats-marine/motorboats/auction-819346531.htm
For the bigger (4 seat+) ones Lexus v8s are quite common because they are cheap, but you also see chevy 350s, LS2's, ford 302, 351, 383 etc. Also seen some supercharged buick/holden 3800's. Pretty much any motor that the owner can get their hands on. The pumps are usually by a kiwi company called Hamilton jet. `
- Location
- detroit MI
what pump are they running on the v8 boats? ive been looking into this for the past few months. pump seems like the hardest/most expensive part to acquire.
- Location
- Taupo NZ
Probably a hamilton 772 or 773. Yeah a good jet unit goes for a few thousand dollars
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- Location
- Crescent Beach, FL
That's crazy!
Love the altitude of the tow-in after sinking...lol.
Love the altitude of the tow-in after sinking...lol.
- Location
- Texas
No idea man. As far as I can tell, an aluminum stand up would be a huge bitch to create with our kind of specific hull designs. And not worth it when there's badass carbon fiber hulls for much less. But I'm not an expert in any way.
- Location
- louisville ky
I think all aluminum superjet / standup .would be like a flat bottom boat in the surf .that thing would beat the tar pizz out of u..I would say u would have to ride on a clam day with no chop at all ..plus I would all so think it would vibrate real bad as well ..I have ridden in plenty of aluminum boats and they will smack the water hard ..but it would be cool as hell if someone made a standup ...I have seen a wetbike that was all aluminum ..it was on wetbike.net ..I think the dudes name was tori
- Location
- louisville ky