RoughRider tell me about your plans..

[RiverDave]

I read on here that your planning on making the exhaust through hull with the Merc 260 and the alpha drive.. Those motors are so quiet to begin with I'm wondering if that's a good idea? Run the boat on a hose out of the water and you'll see what I'm talking about.


If your plans are to change it out to a BBC and a Bravo, you'll have to end up moving those holes again and end up swiss cheesing the transom of the boat.

Do you have any plans to put any bulkheads in the boat yet? When we owned it, my game plan was:

Take the floor out, remove the belly tank (have to remove it to put in a BBC, as you have to move the peace of wood that's glassed between the 2 stringers in front of the motor forward slightly.. The belly tank is on the other side of it).

Danny at DCM was going to sell me a set of stainless saddle tanks for it for a reasonable price 650 I think? Glass in bulkheads and install the saddle tanks.. This will better join the deck and the bottom together.

The bottom of the boat was rigid, but the deck even though "strong" was "floppy" as there was nothing connecting the two.

Install a BBC / Bravo and new interior and that was about it. (I was going to build some big billet cav plates for hte back of it as well, but I dunno if you want to do that or not)

RD

 

[NAFLASH]

We cut the holes the other night and hes getting some hose tonight. It was farely loud when he started it with just the logs. He made swim steps. Pretty sure hes going to make some bulkheads. Fix the gauges. Put the beaner visor back on and get a bimini made.

 

[RiverDave]

We cut the holes the other night and hes getting some hose tonight. It was farely loud when he started it with just the logs. He made swim steps. Pretty sure hes going to make some bulkheads. Fix the gauges. Put the beaner visor back on and get a bimini made.

What was wrong with the guages? I pulled my guages out of it when I sold it to Danny.. I still have them if he wants to buy them.

RD

 

[NAFLASH]

Gauges are all wacky. Oil pressure is pegged all the time. Water temp never moves off 100. Lights only work on water oil pressure fuel and volt. speedo and tach dont turn on or arent hooked up I should say.

 

[roughrider]

just bout got the ezhaust buttoned up and ready to go and nest in the works is the trailer which will prolly be done in the next couple a days...swim steps are done and bimini is in the near future...pics to come too and from the first rvier trip too...

 

[RiverDave]

Gauges are all wacky. Oil pressure is pegged all the time. Water temp never moves off 100. Lights only work on water oil pressure fuel and volt. speedo and tach dont turn on or arent hooked up I should say.

I had one of Wes's guys do the wiring on the boat when we 1st bought it. The wiring while cool was a bit "strange." It didn't seem like standard rigging. There was two power wires 1 looping over the top of the guage set, and one below for some sort've redundancy deal.. I dunno. Overall it was clean and it worked so I never messed with it. Although it originally messed up the volt meter, we cut the 2nd power wire to it and it worked fine after that. There's no speedo pick up as I put a GPS speedo in it, but never bought the receiving unit for it. I still have all the guages by the way, and would consider selling them and putting them back in the boat. They are all autometer pro-comp's chrome bezel with the pewter/platinum face.

just bout got the ezhaust buttoned up and ready to go and nest in the works is the trailer which will prolly be done in the next couple a days...swim steps are done and bimini is in the near future...pics to come too and from the first rvier trip too...

Looking forward to it.

RD

 

[roughrider]

snapped some pictures tonight. Ill upload the river ones later. the tips arent mounted to the transom yet and im in the process of redoing the steps on the trailer as well.

 

[roughrider]

boats real loud now lol

 

[RiverDave]

What kind of wood did you use for the swim steps?

I noticed you haven't pushed the seat back forward. We had it pushed back several inches because I had an extended steering column in it. That's probably why it feels a bit awkward to drive right now.

I had intended on changing it over to a foot throttle and ditching that shifter.

RD

 

[roughrider]

naw havent put the seat foward(im 6 3 fits me perfect) yet but i plan in the off season redoing the interior and pulling up the floor. when i do that im gunna beef up the bulkheads and glass them into the stringers and take that shifter off and build it into the seat and put one of theses in its place or offshore controls in...and where the shifter is now prolly put a head unit there for a stereo...
http://www.cpperformance.com/detail.aspx?ID=8911

o and the wood is red oak which im probablly gunna redo because they worked great in a pinch but im gunna make em better

 

[ne112989]

finally found those windflaps you were asking about.. maybe a little different from the ones you want

http://www.finneys.com/windflaps.htm

 

[roughrider]

river pics and even more updates to come give me few more dayz trailer is almost done kinda!!!

 

[roughrider]

mas...

 

[SPECTRABRENT]

Roughrider,

Your boat looks good!

Brent

 

[roughrider]

sorry for the repost got tons of pics...more to come tho...

 

[Sun burners]

Nice!
How do you like the sound?
Under London Bridge my old boat sounded GREAT! V8 Alpha with some extras.

 

[RiverDave]

The Boat is looking good RoughRider!!

Trailer is looking great as well! Nicely done so far!

You ready to buy that Merc 260 turbo kit I have for it? 300 bucks and it's yours! It does need some parts though.

RD

 

[roughrider]

thanks guys trailers not done yet i still have sum fabrication to do but got rid of the floater bar and made new steps and am making a spare tire carrier...boat is coming along tho just gotta do few things like i wanna redo the steps and things and as for that turbo kit idk yet its real tempting tho... my plans are when the motor goes to throw a 350 mag in it with a bravo drive and slowly build that but bimini and interior is first!!! more pics to come tonite or tomm!!

-Kyle

 

[NAFLASH]

dave do you happen to know what kind of or size carb is on the motor? Also with the prob would i be possible to just buy an alpha drive prop cuz im plannin on puttin a 4 blade on it for the time being...

 

[Hallett]

Sweet boat sure looks heavy, nice job.

 

[RiverDave]

thanks guys trailers not done yet i still have sum fabrication to do but got rid of the floater bar and made new steps and am making a spare tire carrier...boat is coming along tho just gotta do few things like i wanna redo the steps and things and as for that turbo kit idk yet its real tempting tho... my plans are when the motor goes to throw a 350 mag in it with a bravo drive and slowly build that but bimini and interior is first!!! more pics to come tonite or tomm!!

-Kyle

Kyle the problem with your plan is the Merc 260 will never die.. I swear even if you didn't change the oil ever, it'd still outlast you or me. LOL

dave do you happen to know what kind of or size carb is on the motor? Also with the prob would i be possible to just buy an alpha drive prop cuz im plannin on puttin a 4 blade on it for the time being...

Pretty sure it's just whatever was stock on a merc 260? I dunno?

Rd

 

[roughrider]

thanks for the comments guys and Dave i kinda figure that lol...does seem to run a little better with the exhaust and i throw sum pics up of what ive done recently...lol

 

[roughrider]

dave you wouldnt happen to have the skag for the bottom of the boat laying around too? Or did the guy you get it from take it off because i was under the boat today and noticed two small patched holes to what looked to be like where a skag used to be, reason i ask is because i may just put it back on for skiing and such and found out glenwood makes one for an I/O...o and btw bimini is done and trailer is kinda and drive has just been serviced

 

[RiverDave]

thanks for the comments guys and Dave i kinda figure that lol...does seem to run a little better with the exhaust and i throw sum pics up of what ive done recently...lol

Looking forward to it.

dave you wouldnt happen to have the skag for the bottom of the boat laying around too? Or did the guy you get it from take it off because i was under the boat today and noticed two small patched holes to what looked to be like where a skag used to be, reason i ask is because i may just put it back on for skiing and such and found out glenwood makes one for an I/O...o and btw bimini is done and trailer is kinda and drive has just been serviced

Actually I don't have the skeg.. It didn't have one when we bought it.. I just kinda figured it was one of the few that wasn't built with one. I had planned on putting one in though if we kept it.

RD

 

[roughrider]

sweet thanks ill prolly be going with the glenwood skeg then unless i find something different...pics to come

 

[roughrider]

MOAR to come!

 

[roughrider]

trailer still needs sum work and interior is soon to be ripped out..

 

[RiverDave]

The boat is looking GREAT!!

This photo made me cringe a bit though.. You know that thing was just to cover up some holes right? If you yank on the top of it with your hand you can see the glass stressing around it.

Have you added bulkheads to the boat yet to make the top more rigid? I'm glad to see your enjoying it.

RD

 

[roughrider]

yea thanks!! we were keepin an eye on the pylon for sure making sure it stayed around the base but it worked out all right no problems it does its job well lol...we were kind of in a jam for the time being lol

o and bulkheads to come this winter for sure along with new interior

 

[frank m]

I notice the shrit your wearing it the first post. You work for Hitch Web?

 

[NAFLASH]

Kyle doesn't work for hitch web. I believe the spectra is going to be up for sale soon as well.

 

[nrbr]

I know this is a really old thread but how was that ski tow done with the outdrive?? It's very close to what I'd like to do with mine! I figured I'd have to make a bracket coming off the gimbal ring inside the boat... I plan on making 2 poles for it one longer one a little "sportier", while keeping them easy to interchange.

 

[RiverDave]

I know this is a really old thread but how was that ski tow done with the outdrive?? It's very close to what I'd like to do with mine! I figured I'd have to make a bracket coming off the gimbal ring inside the boat... I plan on making 2 poles for it one longer one a little "sportier", while keeping them easy to interchange.

I made that one.. The original ski tow was screwed up, and there was some problems on the deck right around it, so I made this one with a decent sized base to kind of cover it all up. This particular one was just through bolted at the base, and was good for lighter duty things.. If I had kept the boat, then I would've just got a longer piece of stainless (the top and base are aluminum / stainless pole in the middle) and punched a hole in the base and the boat and tied it into the top of the outdrive somehow.

RD