sentra Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Im waiting for glue to dry on this thing so decided to make a photo journal. So once apon a time there was a boat that worked in the no longer used mangere sewerage ponds, It was made from bits of other boatds and bits of trailers, It was put to tender, my father purchasing it for $1500 big ones to use to clean up the Onehunga lagoon, which had a weed problem at the time, So it did this for a few years getting beaten up, (at one point the entire top ripped off it, pushrods were regularly straightened with a hammer etc), once the lagoon was tidyed up, it sat in storage, looking like this One day me, Peter T and my old man decided to go for a hoon on the manukau, so we bashed the pushrods straight, and took off to a sandbar for lunch, then Peter T and I decided to give it a paint job, a new engine cover, a new exhaust, alloy cylinder head, a late model webber, join the Manukau crusing club and enter some DYO racing, and wakeboarding which was great. So now it looked like this The trailer was hacked together, and had a 100kg counterweight, so it was shortened, new guards, blasted and painted bright green, which turned out to be a bad colour choice when a guard fell off on the motorway one day, so it was then re-re-hooped out and painted grey after the police kindly gave my guard back. So then after a few of these sweet ford crossflows, modified carbs, big cams, etc, the final straw was our bad-ass line bored big doller new everything bus engine caught on fire on the waikato, Some nice guy towed us back Next was a link storm, a xr6 n-a engine, and the associated adaptor plates, and a reco jet unit, Which Vvega tuned and was great at 60 something kph Then after a few teething issues and a lumpy broshaft, It was good for a few more kph, and most importantly, 2 chicks said it sounded badass without being asked, which made it worthwhile. Neither of them was liv my gf which was a double bonus. After a un-fruitful skiing season, too much work and not enough play, combined with Independent brewrys stopping producing Bighorn lager, a Waterskiers staple food, we barely got out in this thing, Then one day , I saw phreaker off here was offering his eaton M90 to marktenfizz, So i snapped that stz up and put it on, whith some JILLYYZZ AU. And then Vvega came to auckland, we put in a walbro pump, some big injectors, braved a tsunami, and we went and tuned that shit, which was reasonably uneventful, note the sweet dry tuning exhaust. which made for a metric back to the futuristic 88kph, The boat is on the verge of falling apart at this speed, as the first picture shows, the hull is a pig wearing lipstick. So now just a few teething issues like the starter falling off to fix, and glueing bits of Exeloo toilets onto the lid to cover the supercharger, (which ive sent to be sign written with some cool stripes and stuff, hopefully it turrns out cool) And yeah we kept tearing the floor out, so i cut it up and made it super strong, Its really loud, I dont think Jillys were a good investment, Will take a better picture of it when its outside next, have a build a new pole too. And thats it for now, thank you for reading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beaver Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 holy fuck. that is all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Oh my Thats incredibly choice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phr34kr Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 Very cool and at least I can say the supercharger still ended up in something 6 cylinder and fibreglass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentra Posted March 20, 2011 Author Share Posted March 20, 2011 Very cool and at least I can say the supercharger still ended up in something 6 cylinder and fibreglass thank you kindly for furnishing me with this thing that will probibly kill someone eventually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fulloc Posted March 20, 2011 Share Posted March 20, 2011 fucking awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sentra Posted March 31, 2011 Author Share Posted March 31, 2011 engine cover came back from the sign writers, so i put some louvers on it and installed it again, Need to sort out a new skipole still. I decided to put a cock on it too that pisses everywhere to check if the heatexchagers still getting water, goes real high. no more excuses to not work on cars now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seedy Al Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 this thing.............. is fucken choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lou Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 Love it. How does it run? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hemi Posted March 31, 2011 Share Posted March 31, 2011 this thing.............. is fucken choice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NicT Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 akk ya ginger beast. Build another rotabaru This why you keep trying to get me to come out on your boat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steelies Posted April 5, 2011 Share Posted April 5, 2011 well done dave that looks like a bunch of funs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vvega Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 oh look theres mee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sentra Posted January 12 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 12 17 years after its last birthday, it’s time for another The floor was dubious the first time around, wood is a terrible product. All wood to be removed this time. Stringers, beams and transom. A very happy @Tumeke helping with the misery is it time for a barra 21 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighLUX Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 Good news for bad news 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xsspeed Posted January 13 Share Posted January 13 BARRAD NEWS 1 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sentra Posted January 14 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 14 @Ned came and scanned the floor to be able to make new beams and a new floor, Also fanboat Brian came over and convinced me to stop being a weaner and cut the last peice of wood out of the back. all the serious misery work is done for now, will make up new beams and floor panels then probably get a friendly boatbuilder to glass them with a chopper gun as it’s not a performance machine. 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ned Posted January 15 Popular Post Share Posted January 15 Dave in his 'happy place' in his undies getting itchy 6 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nominal Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 The phrase 'polishing a turd' comes to mind. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post sentra Posted April 3 Author Popular Post Share Posted April 3 New beam’s laminated and machined from @Ned’s 3d scans, amazing outcome for such a big surface and “low cost” scanner Realising I don’t have enough talent for structural fiberglass work, talented uncle Neemia from work took over and is doing an excellent job, a layer of glass is over the inside of the hull and the beams bonded in place to be laminated over the top of. 20 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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