Matt's 01 Superjet

[Matt_E]

Nuther Superjet...but this one will be cool. :sneaky: :biggrin:

Anyways, I started tear down in December. It took a while to strip the hull, sand it, and defoam.

For the defoam, I opened up the back purdy good and let loose with a wire wheel.

I reinforced back there while I was at it.
Also, all intrusions into the rear were sealed off with 5200.

I tore out my old one way valve (too small) and stuck a big 2 inch valve and pipe in there.

I refoamed with 3lb foam.

After that, the hull weighed in at 120lbs.

 

[Matt_E]

More pics of the slaughter.

 

[Matt_E]

MOre pics. Including shop *****.

 

[Matt_E]

MOre pics.

 

[enzo]

Man that looks like a lot of work! I need to do the refoam on mine as well. Also need to fix my caved in gunwales. Repaint and re-turf. Not fun.

Looks like you are doing it right!

 

[Matt_E]

Yeah...I really didn't want to dig all the foam out...but Phill talked me into it.

I am glad I did it. There were a lot of small leaks.

Just got done putting black paint on the bottom.

 

[Matt_E]

More pictures. That's a nice BIG one way valve. I had to open up the existing holes for that a bit - that also allowed me to bring it more to the bottom

 

[Blaster94]

What footholds are you putting in?

 

[Matt_E]

More pics...glassing the tray back together.

 

[Matt_E]

What footholds are you putting in?

Blowsion kickers. I actually installed those last spring, but took them out for this job.
They're already back in now.

 

[Blaster94]

Looks good. I need to get off my A$$ and finish mine up.

 

[Matt_E]

More.

Hood and nose piece are early Watercraft Factory pieces. Picked up the set for 300 from Jesse. Thanks again Jess.

 

[Matt_E]

More pics
I got the bottom taped up (Blue) .. that'll be copper colored later.

 

[Matt_E]

More pics...bottom painted with black. Single stage urethane paint, 2 coats.
That seems plenty.

I'll try to tape tomorrow night so I can spray the copper.

 

[ski4]

looks good matt, keep plugging away , great pictures

 

[Phill]

Hey looks good! I think the black will look good. How much of the copper will go on top? You know you have a pic of my hood in there.....

 

[Matt_E]

Yeah... I saw that. Oops...I might take it out if lazyness doesn't keep clobbering me.

The top deck will look similar to that orange/black setup someone photoshopped for me at PWCToday when I was looking for paint ideas.

 

[Frosty]

Dude, that's looking nice...

 

[orange flattop freestyler]

Cool thread, nice work fella :biggrin:

 

[Mike W]

looks good bro