Freestyle Fitting a Rickter flow guard with Thrust Trim

[ChadGnarly]

I needed a project in this long snowy winter in CT so i bought a 144 flow guard from TC and made it fit today. It was a lot of grinding, cutting and checking. I think i have it where i want it so i get lots of trim and full steering throw. I had to cut the top of the flow guard off because it wouldnt fit in the pump tunnel of my blaster and it helped the thrust trim arm clearance. I also ground off a good amount of material on the trim arm and raised it up with a spacer. Here are some pics, 1 more test fit and then ill glass around it and seal it up to the nozzle. I also suggest trying this on a crappy nozzle, i ended up drilling a lot of extra holes.

 

[Mxsx25]

I've been wondering about these , nice work!


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[ChadGnarly]

Heres a pic with the resin lip added for the full seal.

 

[lerott]

Nice job, but I think you'd better selling your thrust trim and use an oem one from 2008+, flowguard is not made to fit thrust trim and we can think Ogino know what he does, just my 2 cent, sorry.

 

[ChadGnarly]

I totally agree, i needed a project.

 

[lerott]

I've just seen on Rickter composites FB this : Flow Guard is available with 144mm -YAM trim system, 155mm YAM trim system, 144mm -Trust trim system

 

[ChadGnarly]

Welp i wish i knew that ahead of time