Super Jet BrightE's Generic RN Build!

[Byeai]

Kinda yea

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[BrightE's]

Hopefully will never have to defoam another tray, but I am glad I found the water I suspected was in there. That is some serious, hand, wrist, and forearm crunching manual labor. It's clean though. Just need to powerwash out now. Probably pulled 10 pounds of wet foam out.

 

[Byeai]

Pressure washer and a aggressive tip with take 30 minutes

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[BrightE's]

We have a 3500 psi washer at our lake, but we didn't lay the spicket tap into the lake yet or prime the pump, so I couldn't feed it what it needed to work off a sink faucet... So manual work it was.

 

[BrightE's]

Used a wire brush tip for the majority of it.

 

[BrightE's]

Got back to working on the ski this weekend. Drilled the bulkhead hole for my VersiMax drain and plumbing system, and cut the hull -3" at an angle. Tomorrow will be glassing up back side of the hull.

Laser level:

chopchop:

Low Profile Drain Hole:

Plumbing:

 

[BrightE's]

Did have a quick question for tomorrow before I start glassing. The cheap, semi-translucent, hot glue gun like adhesive that is at every intersection of hose and hull, seemed to have broken loose or chipped away. Can I replace all that crappy glue with 5200? Especially on the PVC drive shaft tunnel?

 

[FearMyWrX]

I would. After all that work you don't want water to get in the foam.

 

[BrightE's]

Glassed in the cutouts with 5 layers of 12oz bi-axial yesterday. I'm not sure how thick it will end up being, but I'm hoping it's enough to stay sturdy during big landings. Also took the opportunity to reinforce the tray walls and the walls of the pump housing.

 

[shaunsteezy]

clean build. your patience pays off, the templates make your glass work come out much better. one spot i did not reinforce that started cracking was from the inside of the tray walls where it meets the bulkhead. i would fill that area with thickened epoxy and glass.

your scupper looks like its going to work great in that location.

 

[BrightE's]

Hey thanks. Pretty sure some form of OCD gets the best of me when I'm working on this kind of thing - I'll lose sleep over it if I can't get it perfect. My only gripe about the whole drain system now is that it won't let me install a trim tube if I ever want one. Poor thinking on my part.

Did you see cracking at the bulkhead seam in the engine bay or under the tray area?

 

[Mobile Chernobyl]

Next are the control mods. Took the pole off, got the blowsion quicksteer on, and bought a Artic Cat / Polaris bilge, stop, start box to install an on/off switch and LED. I had to snake a ground wire down the handle pole grommet for the LED. There is more on this here near the end of the thread: http://www.x-h2o.com/threads/117448...ed-start-stop-bilge-control-anyone-tried-this

Here is the function video:

Here was the electric scheme.

That's awesome dude!

 

[BrightE's]

ha! Thanks man. I got the idea to try to use the Tigershark Start/Stop/Bilge control from your earlier post. Did you end up installing one of them on your ski?

 

[BrightE's]

Got some more work done. Aluminum angles to secure my exhaust since I don't weld and wasn't going to prep and pay someone to do it, and lowered exhaust. Aestheic expoxy on the newly cut fill-ins on the back of the hull. Finished cutting and putting EPP foam in. Next weekend is glass, two part expanding foam, and foot holds, and turf if I am lucky.

This part was no fun. Letting the final epoxy coat cure, and filling all bulkhead holes:

Exhaust support with angle aluminum. I didnt have the money nor time to have someone weld it.

Installed:

Lowered, second try is a charm:

All finished up with plumbing/exhaust:

Getting there with the EPP foam:

Foam done!

 

[BrightE's]

Phew! 14 hours of labor yielded a glassed tray today. The WCF footholds I got are extremely warped, so I couldnt install them with the tray glass. It's going to have to cure first so I can screw the things in to flatten them out. I widened the tray about 2" as well.

*3 Layers 17oz for the floor
*2 layers 17 oz for the gunwales
*1.5" chopped mat and 6oz S-Glass from the edges and corners

Pouring

Getting ready to sand for a few hours

The whip looking fly and mighty

Floor down

All done, had to leave the garage open so I wouldn't pass out from fumes, meaning all that green epoxy was catching mosquitos like flies on sticky paper. Looks good:

 

[BrightE's]

Footholds in:

 

[MikeyB]

Nice work! I like what you did with the tray, I'm planning on doing something very similar. What footholds are those?

 

[BrightE's]

Hey thanks! The footholds are WCF. I took about an inch off each gunwale (widened tray 2"), so the back of the holds fit just about right flush with the interior wall of the hull.

 

[jnutz]

verrrrrrrrrrrrrry clean remodel... looks awesome

 

[BrightE's]

Well, it's looking like I'm not going to have this thing ready for the Dells Freeride unless my boss is awesome enough to let me take Friday off to finish all the odds and ends. I got pretty much all hull related details finished. And now the engine and a lot of the internals need to go in. In putting the carbs and intake manifold back on, a lot of the gaskets on the seemed to be in good shape, so I reused them, and hopefully that won't come back to haunt me.

Impeller in. Pump in ski.

Holds done up

Getting put back together

Foam!

Getting first layer of foam down:

The tried and true method for no seems turf

Gunwales done

Yes! I was so pumped on this. Everything was so solid, dampened to vibration, and soft as a pillow.

Even got the girlfriend to help me. She's putting all the bolts into the shortened pole:

She's almost ready for the Dells ride: