my progress

[tahitijet]

i had a few inquires as the progress on my project.
I turned the boat back over removed the intake had it machined for a shoe and rideplate. reinstalled the intake (setback 3"). flipped the boat agian and have recently finished removing the hook up to 1/2" in the worst spots.
I have also finished the trailer below are a few pics. Pending rain i hope to have the bottom in paint by tuesday.
This sure has been alot of work I hope it was worth it.:cool:
bottom before

[tahitijet]

cut for set back (notice almost 1.5" off added fiberglass in the bilge area)

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intake reinstalled and boat back over

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ground down rear of the boat to properly line up with the intake. The intake is now set in at 4 degress the old setup was almost 10.

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first round of primer. it's since been guide coated and blocked to make sure it's straight.

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and now the trailer before

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another

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and after i know have the fenders back from chrome and diamond plate steps but no pics yet

[tahitijet]

last one. sorry i coulndn't figure out how to get this in 1 post.

[Jake W]

Man you are really making some progress.I do not see how you could go wrong with strighting the bottom and adding a shoe and ride plate.
Is the boat going to be light blue too?
Jake:D

[Foggerjet]

Tahitijet, Which hull is that? The bottom looks like mine. Is that the boat that is getting that bad ass motor over in gearheads?
looks good fom all aspects, should be fast
fog

[tahitijet]

yes it is gettin that motor.
Yes I do plan to use the same blue.. mainlly white with that blue tirim. The blue is a custom color i mixed up while trying to come up with a blue for a show truck i was building. I liked it so much it I used it on the boat as well..
everythign is on track the bottom should be in paint thursday.

[tahitijet]

and paint... waiting for the clear to set a few days before color sanding..

[tahitijet]

front

[Oldsquirt]

That's looking pretty damn nice!
Now if we could just teach you how to use the Image Center so you could post the pics instead of having them as attachments. :)
I'll start you off with these last two....
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/521/66Tahitjet1-med.jpg
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/521/66Tahitijet2-med.jpg

[tahitijet]

Thanks.. I'll do it that way from now on

[BarryMac]

looks great, I can't wait to see it finished, keep us posted. :cool:

[rssfla]

I look under my boat and see 2 huge hooks in the bottom. I'm sure its something the bulider built in to keep the boat in the water, and boy does it stick like glue! I wish I had an idea of how to begin to remove them. the boat is at a friends body shop now to be painted soon. When its turned over I will try and decide what to do. If you could post what you used and a few mor of the basic steps I'd sure appreciate it!

[rssfla]

bump

[tahitijet]

Well i'm in no way a professional and would really hate to give you bad advice. My boat was in bad shape and probably should have been tossed away instaed of fixed so my steps my be differen't from yours I'm not sure. There are alot of people on here that helped me, ask around and I'm sure they can give you sound advice.
You can see most of my steps in this thread and one further down the list i think titled turning my boat over tomorrow.
As a side note I finally got the boat polished and back on the trailer. now time to paint the top..
http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/709P5040271-med.JPG
The flash on the camera really fades the blue but here is a better shot of the color http://www.hotboatpics.com/pics/data/500/709P5040268-med.JPG

[HotHallet]

Boat is coming along nicely. Good lookin' trailer too! Can't wait to see it all done. I just did the same thing by flipping the boat, having the bottom blueprinted, adding a shoe and rideplate, new loader, rebuilt the whole pump and the the bowl converted to a split bowl and had a droop installed. Just put in brand new motor-a 533 hp BBF with a tunnel ram with two 600 Holleys and aluminum heads. Can't wait for the summer!!!!

[HBjet]

Originally posted by HotHallet
Boat is coming along nicely. Good lookin' trailer too! Can't wait to see it all done. I just did the same thing by flipping the boat, having the bottom blueprinted, adding a shoe and rideplate, new loader, rebuilt the whole pump and the the bowl converted to a split bowl and had a droop installed. Just put in brand new motor-a 533 hp BBF with a tunnel ram with two 600 Holleys and aluminum heads. Can't wait for the summer!!!!
you forgot to mention if you went with 20oz or 40oz carpet and stainless or chrome trailer fenders.
HBjet

[AZmike]

looks good tahiti

[rssfla]

looks great!
What i was wondering was what you filled the depressions in with, can you use duraglass or a similar product to fill and shape the bottom of the boat? Or did you grind and glass the bottom?
did you have to apply anything else before primer and paint?
Thanks

[tahitijet]

i had a very lage amount of hook so i removed all the paint and original gel and roughed up the glass.. then spent alot of hours laying new glass in the low spots. Then i used a dura-glass type product once it was really close. then skimmed over that with evercoat.
3 coats of filler primer on the body work. sanded that then 3 coats on the full bottom and wet sanded before paint.
Hope that helps some.
steve

[rssfla]

thanks steve, yes that helps alot!
I wasn't sure if it was a job i wanted to tackle.