- Location
- Fort Worth, TX
I got my pole bracket and stuff in yesterday that I had been waiting on. I also pick up the engine next week
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Footrocket Build
- Thread starter lawmaster891
- Start date
- Location
- Garland, tx.
Gonna b sweet man!
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX
Finally made some progress
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Yami-Rider
TigerCraft FV-PRO
- Location
- Texoma
Finally!
. Are you just re-using most of the parts from your chan? What motor are you running? I dont think you own enough DVD's! lol.
- Location
- Garland, tx.
U don't wanna know what motor he got. Trust me.... :-D
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX
Ill hopefully post some pics of the engine and the rest of the stuff I am getting this weekend. Until then its a secret
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Yami-Rider
TigerCraft FV-PRO
- Location
- Texoma
I heard it is going to be a ported 550!!! Its going to be a real arm ripper!
- Location
- wichita, ks
I bet a ported 550 would still be a pretty good arm ripper on that thing
- Location
- Fort Worth, TX
Got the pump shoe in today
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- Location
- Fort Worth, TX
I did not use any screws. There is a slight gap between the shoe and hull
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- Location
- St Charles IL
I'm running a protec intake grate
I can take pics of it mounted if anyone would like
I can take pics of it mounted if anyone would like
Yami-Rider
TigerCraft FV-PRO
- Location
- Texoma
Ya i have heard that screws are a big no no on aftermarket hull, I used G-Flex epoxy glue on alan's XFS.
Just wondering: did you do your shaft/pump alignment off the shaft tube on midshaft housing? What type of glue did you us, looks like 5200.
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speedysprocket
Alex
- Location
- Chesapeake, VA
I screwed the shoe into my Foot Rocket...
Me too. It was too late by the time I heard the mounting surface wasn't perpendicular. Craziness. It should be square, and I can't imagine a viable argument for why it shouldn't be.
speedysprocket
Alex
- Location
- Chesapeake, VA
I'm not worried. My wear ring has only a few thousandths gap between it and the shoe. Too small to even put a neoprene seal in there.
Yami-Rider
TigerCraft FV-PRO
- Location
- Texoma
Well the person that installed the duct shoe is this XFS screwed/glued it, the pump didn't line up right and blew out the new seal, so i got to chisel out a brand new duct shoe on a brand new XFS and do it right, zero issues ever since. Maybe footrockets are more sqaure?
I was told the reason aftermarket are not usually sqaure is because they are hand laid vs a million dollar pressure SMC mold that yamaha has.
I was told the reason aftermarket are not usually sqaure is because they are hand laid vs a million dollar pressure SMC mold that yamaha has.
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Makes sense, but proper fixturing can get you a long way. The machine yamaha molds them in is two stories tall. It's in Lincoln, NE. I don't expect hull builders to go that route, but they're not making thousands of them on a strict work schedule either. I don't know the process well at all, but I know my vision hull was closer than my foot rocket that costs twice as much.
Sorry for the derailment.