Schmidty's WFC V1 Vision build

[Wolf Child]

try those funny looking blowsion cables, that's what was on it.

also, I noticed those wide bond rails tend to hook a bit in the corners. just a heads up.

 

[waterfreak]

I'm not sweating you, but I feel horrible about what's happened and STeve has me pissed in the way he keeps tossing me under the bus on this. I've known that dude a while and this just pisses me off. it's him I'm angry at, he should have made this right. this is a manufacturing issue, anyone could easily see that.

easy there captain Sparrow! pick up the phone and call me if you wanna vent some anger!
Building skis get's much easier the more you do. The rad dude exhaust fits fine over the exhaust tube when it's heated up a bit and stretched over.
I always use SN steering and throttle cables for the Visions. Never had a problem but I always run my pole somewhat short.
Now just go ride that bitch and forget about all your problems

 

[Schmidty721]

I need to pull the fuel tank and H20 box out as one of the bolts from an insert on the waterbox strap must have pulled. I ended up with the hook and rubber pad bouncing around the engine bilge after about 1.5hrs or riding.
I'm going to pull the throttle cable and measure it but I'm pretty darn sure it' a SN cable. The new RN cable I bought was about 8" short of even reaching the throttle wheel.

The Rad Dudes hose does not fit the exhaust tube you have in this hull. I tried heat, it wasn't going. Maybe this tube has a thicker wall than later tubes you did? either way I hope the newer Vision's do work with a stock sized hose. I had to heat the piss out of a section I had laying around to get it on about 3/4" and then sleeved it to join to a cut down Rad Dudes hose all of which is touching the back side of the carb fuel pump.

 

[Schmidty721]

So I have several rides on this now. Everything is pretty much dialed in. Want to try re-pitching slightly lower on my 10/16 hooker. I have a friend that can do that this weekend for me. I started with a flush ride plate and put a d-cut into today. We are going out after work so I want to see if I can tell a difference. I still want to build a splash guard for this. We were in the WI dells last weekend for the freeride and had about a 2 mile ride down river in some pretty aggressive chop and the nose spray damn near took away my 'vision' any time we were on the gas and covering some water. Several people rode it in the Dells and most of the feedback was positive.

 

[cully37]

Thanks for letting me take a quick ride on that thing. I think it rode really nice. I would seriously consider one of these hulls if I decided to go to the aftermarket world.

 

[Schmidty721]

Whelp I think I liked the d-cut. I'm going to go a little bit bigger yet with it. Unfortunately I lost one of the bolts on my trim ring yesterday during the ride and it got mangled to crap. I think I can fix it. Kicking myself in the arse for not reapplying thread lock on the bolt after I pulled it to bore my reduction nozzle...

And somehow as I was idling back to the beach with no steering I busted a hose clamp on the big exhaust coupler on my speedwerx haha.
So there I am, laying in the tray trying to steer my damn ski with me feet acting like rudders and inhaling a chit ton of smoke bellowing out from the hood and engine bilge just hopping the damn thing would make it back to shore. And to add insult to injury it was the first week of show ski practice at the beach so I was packed with people waiting to ski or just watching. Fun stuff