speedysprocket
Alex
- Location
- Chesapeake, VA
Just finished my first after market hull build today, so I figured I'd post what I did.
This is a brand new hull I bought from Fast Elements at the Carolina ride and brought home 18 May.
I made and then glassed in inserts so the tubbies could be removed and installed without a wrench on the inside of the hull. I also filled in the big pockets under the engine mount plates so they don't hold water.
I had to move the right engine plate out and relocate all four engine mounts. RHAAS made the mounts for me, left and right are different heights to make it all work...
Mounted electric box on top of the foot hold, starter relay on the left side of the hold, coils on a bracket I welded on the right side. I used a yamaha bearing carrier with the Polaris drive shaft.
Engine is my 950 Polaris based power valve engine built by Erik running 46 Novis and Total Loss. I had to beat the B-pipe chamber in four different places to fit, I had to cut the Flow Box inlet and exit tubes and reweld them, the heat gun had to persuade the fuel tank. In short, it's a big engine in a small hull. I made the coupler cover and battery boxes out of glass and carbon.
Pump is a Polaris 148 mag that I adapted to fit. I made the foot holds out of glass and carbon so I didn't have to cut the heel straps off the back of the Krash foot holds.
This is a brand new hull I bought from Fast Elements at the Carolina ride and brought home 18 May.
I made and then glassed in inserts so the tubbies could be removed and installed without a wrench on the inside of the hull. I also filled in the big pockets under the engine mount plates so they don't hold water.
I had to move the right engine plate out and relocate all four engine mounts. RHAAS made the mounts for me, left and right are different heights to make it all work...
Mounted electric box on top of the foot hold, starter relay on the left side of the hold, coils on a bracket I welded on the right side. I used a yamaha bearing carrier with the Polaris drive shaft.
Engine is my 950 Polaris based power valve engine built by Erik running 46 Novis and Total Loss. I had to beat the B-pipe chamber in four different places to fit, I had to cut the Flow Box inlet and exit tubes and reweld them, the heat gun had to persuade the fuel tank. In short, it's a big engine in a small hull. I made the coupler cover and battery boxes out of glass and carbon.
Pump is a Polaris 148 mag that I adapted to fit. I made the foot holds out of glass and carbon so I didn't have to cut the heel straps off the back of the Krash foot holds.
