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Before putting the pump in the hull finished installing pole. Wound up putting hoses in bracket and bottom section of pole then slipping pole tubes over breather hoses. No two poles ever go together the same way for me. Installed pole bracket, pole and breather hoses as one onto hull. Sheathed...

Gonna run the P&P Velociraptor. Had to polish it up a bit. Flatted some washers so they wouldn't gouge the nozzle.

Time for pump assembly. I run Klotz oil instead of grease. Had to make a tool to pop in prop seal, first one I couldn't' get with my fingers. And it was the fat shaft one from JetManiac.

Some pics of my rant. The leading edge pics are on 9, 10, 11 degree lines. The trailing edge pics start on the 18 degree line ( what the prop is labeled ) and are followed by the 17, 16, and 15 degree lines. All pics taken with gauges and prop on a sheet of glass on a level hardwood bench.

A Tale Of 2 Props So this post is a bit of a rant. After talking with guys with Bun tuning experience the consensus is Bun's like revs and getting there quick which for me means starting with a lower pitch prop and tuning up from there. And I know all about every boat is different and they all...

That's a great question Jordan, I've been asking myself that for 5 years....

A Tale Of 3 Pumps. I was online on the X just as Maxx first posted that he was going to be doing titanium pumps and having bought his stainless pump and loving it I immediately messaged him and got him real time. When I ordered my stainless Maxx pump I ordered it with 4 cooling ports and wanted...

Thanks Benny!

Thanks Diam!

On to the pump install. First task was the trim cable. My other builds with trim all had trim tubes which I would just run tube seals on both ends. The XI is an open bulkhead boat so there is just a stub for the trim tube making it possible to only run one boot. The thought of that basically...

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Thanks Alamo! The only thing you missed was doing things over 2, 3, 4 times even with that forethought and patience, lol!

Thanks Johnny!

Thanks Quinc !

Topped the pole with ATP steering. Silver.

Ran into another problem that I had to fix. I hate colored ano. Unless it's silver.

Made a stainless safety rod just in case those aluminum pole ends can't grip that polished Ti. And you can still get an Allen on the bolts for torque check.

Titanium tubes score extra for Bling factor. Ti pinch bolts

I also sourced some CWSR , (Cold Worked Stress Relieved) .037 2.5 " Titanium for the Aura pole. It just eeks out a win at a tenth of a gram lighter per inch.

Aura for the win. But I'm going with the Ti, Ti is just cool.