Custom/Hybrid 300sx/144/701 build

[eddie089]

Got a 300sx for dirt cheap and decided to start a build. Putting a 144 pump with a hooker prop. Powerplant will be a 701 bored 2 over, fully ported and polished, milled head, factory pipe, lightened flywheel. Should be fun when I finish

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pump cavity donor

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pump cavity fit
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foamin

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first layer of glass on the bottom
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first layer of glass inside
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reshaped the nose

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separated the hood to lower it

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shaved the hood

 

[loictahiti]

subscribed

good job

 

[eddie089]

Thanks!

 

[dbattersby20]

nice build, just picked up a 61x 701 myself for a summer build. want to do a 300sx, but may end up chopping up a 650sx.

 

[eddie089]

A 650sx hull would be wayyyy heavier than a 300 sx hull. Get a 300sx lol

 

[BruceSki]

damn... clean looking build and nice glass work. I haven't followed many of these but I'll subscribe to this one.

Try to keep tabs on it and see what your cost winds up being in the end. Just wondering where you end up compared to a RTR BOB hull. Add the cost of the squarenose, resin, glass, your time, turf, paint....yada yada.

Not favoring either direction here, just wondering what the price point ends up being on a build like this.

 

[MADMAT]

Great pics!

 

[SUPERJET-113]

I just wanna say nice glass work too. some of these builds drive me crazy with the shtty glass work, but hey, some are just starting out and will learn in the long run. Plus I dont say anything bad about someones build.
Anyways great job, cant wait to see the finished ski. Really like the job you did on the hood. Was that a bitch to split the liner/hood?

 

[dbattersby20]

now that you chopped the hood, how are you going to set up vents for the engine? also looks like you cut out a lot of the hull around the ride plate. are you making a custom ride plate for it?

 

[eddie089]

Thanks guys, im really surprised how my glass work has turned out lol all ive done before this was a set of foot holds on my fx1 and foot holds on one of my friends 550s.

 

[eddie089]

damn... clean looking build and nice glass work. I haven't followed many of these but I'll subscribe to this one.

Try to keep tabs on it and see what your cost winds up being in the end. Just wondering where you end up compared to a RTR BOB hull. Add the cost of the squarenose, resin, glass, your time, turf, paint....yada yada.

Not favoring either direction here, just wondering what the price point ends up being on a build like this.

Yea Ive been keeping tabs on everything. I got the 300sx for 200 and the sj for free from a friend, the story on the sj hull is that it was in the back of a truck and the people rolle the truck. when i got it from him, the nose and gun wales were all smashed. I got the motor for 500 and paid about 230 for all the glass and resin. Ill probably be into it only about 2200 or $2300 when im done. Hopefully all this work is worth it

 

[eddie089]

now that you chopped the hood, how are you going to set up vents for the engine? also looks like you cut out a lot of the hull around the ride plate. are you making a custom ride plate for it?

I was thinking about making hand holds on the hood for vents kinda like what the aftermarket rn hoods have. No I dont think im gonna make a custom ride plate, Im just gonna cut a stock sj one to make it fit. Ill only be using 2 bolts to hold the ride plate on

 

[eddie089]

I laid a layer in the inside of the firewall. I put the engine in the hull to measure where i need to bulge the side of the hull out for the pipe to be able to fit. Im gonna make it fit!!!

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You can see how i need to slide the engine to make it center to meet the coupler. so im gonna start grinding!

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[MikeyB]

Great job on the glass work!

 

[eddie089]

Thanks man!

 

[orangefinger]

out of curiousty why did you not transfer the fire wall and longer piece of bottom deck SN including motor mounts ??

 

[Byeai]

^^^ x2

 

[eddie089]

I almost did that, but I was thinking that the fiberglass would just crack over time cuz of the weight of the engine and the force coming down hitting the water. Idk if that would really happen though. I just dont want to watch this thing sing to the bottom of the lake lol

 

[eddie089]

 

[loictahiti]

what you will do with the end of the singer ? did you will cut the other side if the hull ? LOL
no seriously , I 've the same stinger , and i 'm looking for something with ;-))