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NOw for the candy. Color- Candy apple red and 4 coats of clear. It didnt come as dark as I liked but it looks really good. the pictures make it look a little orange Here is a pic with the xmetal fuel cap. Pretty close in color

Second step, Base coat-silver metalic . For a base coat this came out amazing.

Once I got everything sanded down and clean up It was time for paint. Im going with a candy apple red. All the paint was bought from auto zone. Duplicolor qts. First step Primer. After it was primed my warehousemen and I wet sanded it . Thanks Chad, thats the big guy in the pic

Will it didnt take long at all. I started at the end of october, but my little boy was born Nov 1St.So that put me on hold for about 3 weeks. If I were to guess probably a week. when your waiting on one thing you can do something else. So thats how I got so much done.

After sanding, I found a pretty bad cut on the bottom of the hull. It didnt go thru the hull. it wasent that deep. But I figured I should fix it being that Im already in this process. So I cleaned the area up real well with acetone and spread some resin on top. After it harden , once again...

For some reason I cant find a picture with the tray all glass in so Ill just skip to the next step. SANDING!!

Once the exhaust outlet was finished we can now refoam. Im using a 2 part polyurethane foam. once the foam is dry you can shape it to fit your tray.

Now that I got the tray cut I could mess with the exhaust outlet. i forgot to mention that I got rid of the scupper and the factory exhaust tube. i welded a straight pc to the outlet then put a ss braided hose to attach to the new ss tube that was installed.

And here she is

I found a pc of cardboard to make me a template for the side walls. All you need to do is make one for both sides. I wasnet sure If I was going to make a straight cut or the swoop. As you can See I made the swoop.

Now you can see how the glass came out after the duct tape was removed. Solid like a rock. Here is another pic showing the footholds. It looks a little crooked becasue I just put them on top to take a pic Picc of the side exhaust hole

I forgot on the last post, I layed 4 layers of fiberglass on each side. you can never be to safe. Moving on. In the next pics you see me sticking my foot in my footholds with a aluminum pc sticking out. I manage a insulation company so we have what is called a aluminum 90. I found a small one...

Once I cut the back I had to smooth out the edges . I used a grinder with a soft pad. Becareful because the soft pad can cut into the glass if your not careful. After getting the shape I wanted I duct taped the outside , so I can glass from inside. If you noticed also I cut the side walls in the...

The first thing I did was cut the 3'' off the back. When cutting dont forget to remember the rideplate stud. thats what Im cutting out in the next picture. Here It is your going to have to glass this back in . And of course I had to take all the foam out to begin all the fabing The tool of...

The beginning 97 round nose superjet. it weighted in at 127 when it showed up (no hood) MODS: and suppliers -xmetal waterbox -wmetal fuel cap -xmetal trim (JetManiac) -xmetal shorty steering -xmetal straight bars -xmetal throttle lever -xmetal hood hooks (Jetmaniac) -xmetal exhasut outlet...

So I purchased the 97 rn that mcdog was selling. Here is a pic if you forgot what it looked like. It was stripped down but fully reinforced. And of course I couldnt afford a superfreak. But it inspired me to take a few ideas from those amazing skis. The obvice is the swoopp in the tray like the...

I just installed my xmetal setup from jetmaniac with the full setup, it was extremely easy. And the whole kit was 450.

Some of your jumps look like your practising for a stab. NIce video

I just finished shortening my hull, but this is extreme!! thats the first time I seen someone do it that way. looks good!

Let's see some pics