300/440/550 Pics of my 550SX Rebuild Footholds,Versiplug, Complete Refoam.

[Mark Gomez]

No it doesn't
and ill be back in the shop maybe Monday or Friday so sit tight progress is going to get a little slower now.

 

[Walker]

Good luck ! Old school is cool !

 

[Mark Gomez]

Update

Fixed my computer so i can upload pictures again:arms:

Pic 1
So I started to remove all brackets spiters and extras to prep for future paint prepping. I prepped for prepping :dunce:

Pic 2
This is how i believe i came to see the ski after we had layed the glass a week before. to wrap over the edges that may have cracked over extended use. (No I am not covering the fire extinguisher as you will see soon.)

Pic 3
This is John the owner of Performance Fiberglass who has been helping me mostly by keeping my Fibernewb self from doing the finish grind work that he is professional at and myself who would take layers off in certain areas :hitwithrock:

Pic 4
Smoothing and rounding it all out

Pic 5
John Grinding the glass out of the fire extinguisher hole while he was doing his detail grinding around my footholds. found and grinded down a few resin stalagmites on the tops of my footholds :scared:

 

[Mark Gomez]

Update 2/5

Pic 1 & 2

This is my Hood after i de- Turfed it

Pic 3
This is my Hood after i Finished with acetone

Pic 4
John did this while i was gone. He said he had some dead time I assume he had some extra filler after working on a customers ski or boat. But I'm not complaining, this is the side he just laid down so we can sand it down and make everything straight in the end.
Pic 5
This is the other side that he Grinded. Its looking good i keep getting more and more excited:bananajump:

 

[Mark Gomez]

Update 3/5

Pic 1-2
This is my final clean up of the remaining turf on the side rails.
I also finished removing all stickers, the two brackets, and spitter

Pic 3
John told me I might as well redo my hood gasket as much as i LOVED the OEM one i had that was juuuuust fine. But I want to do it right so i removed most of hit here

Pic 4
and finished it here

 

[Mark Gomez]

Update 4/5

Pic 1-3
After removing the handlepole bracket and nose brackets I noticed and pointed out some stress cracks in a few areas. I shrugged them off as paint cracks because I assumed he had reinforced it when i sent it in during my last season.
Turns out he didn't get in those specific areas :ugh:

No worries, Because now I took the grinder and grinded the hell out of the stress cracks to prep for some fresh glass inside and out. Problem now fixed and i feel even better knowing it is and will be good. :beerchug:

Pic 4

I got jiggy with the paper and scotch tape and prepped to lay down the new glass.

Glass was layed and is now set i forgot to take more pics. Will grind as soon as I can get back into the shop to work on it.

 

[Mark Gomez]

Update 5/5 Paint

Pic 1-2
These are pictures of Royal Flush's ski paint scheme that I really liked.

So after 6-8 total hours of photoshoping I came up with these two I am in between.


Pic 3
All black handlepole and black bracket

OR

Pic 4
Same silver body paint on handlepole with black bracket

(I will have this as a blank template soon and will post it in the 550 section)

So thats it for now i have monday off but i have Wrestling practice in the morning so i should be able to get a little bit done.

My crank is getting rebuilt now 1.5mm over Pistons are in. Cylinder and crank case will be bored soon.

Let me know which paint scheme you like best!

Until the next time
Thanks
-Mark

 

[Kennay]

Black pole version That looks great by the way.

 

[Brenden]

black looks good
sets it off

 

[Mark Gomez]

Thanks guys I'm kinda leaning towards the black also the other one makes the ski look too light.

Besides If I am able to do a few modifications I've been brainstorming correctly, there might be a nice surprise in regards to the handlepole situation... :sneaky:

 

[ezmoney]

How the hell did you get the hood gasket off?

 

[Polish jet pilot]

Mark: gimme ideas, ideas, ideas... I will be starting the same process as you in a couple of weeks. I will need as much info on hull as possible. Pics look GREAT! Keep up the good work.

 

[Mark Gomez]

How the hell did you get the hood gasket off?

one scraper and almost chizzle out the old hood gasket while you lift the end that your scraping off straight up and keep it all relatively moist with acetone.
Then i came through with a smaller detail scraper and got the big stuff off. Last I came through with a rag and acetone to rub off any little bits and to clean up the glue.

 

[Mark Gomez]

Mark: gimme ideas, ideas, ideas... I will be starting the same process as you in a couple of weeks. I will need as much info on hull as possible. Pics look GREAT! Keep up the good work.

Thanks Andrew I do have pictures of how i reinforced the nose area and I will show you as soon as i can upload them wont be for a while but I'll do my best.
My question is, when are we going to see some pictures of your ski or any work?

 

[Polish jet pilot]

Currently I am ordering parts from the US. I need to import them to Europe. In between I will start stripping down the hull, and my mechanic will do the porting and the crank. Later on I will reinforce the hull, installl footholds and footstraps, and front tubbies, which I got from surfjetlouie. Then paint the hull white, add some funky graphics (vinyl) and turf it nad so on. Just need to get all the parts...... otherwise I will be stuck on some stupid thing. I still have like 3 months till even thinking about riding.

 

[Polish jet pilot]

:trink26::trink26:Forgot to add that I really want to make a trim kit for this ski... I think it will be interesting how this thing rides with it...

In the meatime we are upgarding my buddy's RXP... just to kill some time and think about the summer to come..... :trink26:

 

[Mark Gomez]

cool man good to hear just curious

I got my Tubbies last wednesday

 

[oxnard111]

cool man good to hear just curious

I got my Tubbies last wednesday

i was just gonna ask if you were gonna add tubbies or not. Looks really good. Keep it up. Lets see this boat at pismo.

 

[Mark Gomez]

Thanks yep I'm 80% there i Just need to get the money situation settled but working with a friend for a possible sponsorship being a highschool student not working full time trying to support a passion for riding that isnt cheap.

But I've got my game plan worked out, Pismo Is a must happen for me.

 

[Polish jet pilot]

Thesentoys cost a sh%^n load of money. Of course most of the price of e.g. a cerrtain part is marketing and high margin... less the R&D.... it's incredible to see that a full pro ski is 30k... or even more?

Great to hear that you got the tubbies I bet the ski will handle like dream... just tell us where you wanna install them...