Should I or Shouldn't I?

Superjet 9195

Superjet 9195

Dude... you can jump that
Location
Salisbury, NC
I have a 95 superjet that I am in the process of setting up to do some flatwater freestyle. I wont be making any trips to ride the surf, at least not anytime soon as I am failry new to the sport and the ocean is a four hour drive. I have already set the ski up with footholds, a blowsion one way valve and I am currently doing the "slutty hood mod". My question is this, do I need to reinforce the hull as I have heard some of you guys talking about. If I do need to what exactly is the process. Do I just add fiberglass to the inner walls of the engine compartment. Do I use fiberglass cloth or mat, how thick and how many layers? Do I glass it to where I essentially glass the top and bottom sections on the ski together (over the seam inside the engine compartment) Any advice would be appreciated, thanks guys. Also as a side note, I am wondering if anyone one on this forum is located in or around the Charlotte, North Carolina and may ride on Lake Norman.
 
Superjet 9195

Superjet 9195

Dude... you can jump that
Location
Salisbury, NC
Thanks again Frosty, thats a big help. Hey, in your opinion, do I need to do the hull reinforcement if I dont plan on riding surf. I have read that the squares are not as strong as the rounds are, is this the case. If I dont do it now,will I wish I did when I break it later.
 
GDFL

GDFL

Location
Melbourne, FL
There are plenty of people that ride with completely stock hulls and do just fine. You should strongly consider reinforcing if you plan on doing anything in the air with your superjet. Reinforcing mainly helps during the learning stage of each trick. "Reinforcing" tricks could include nose stabs, barrel rolls, backflips, huge air straight jumping, etc. I have 3 squarenoses and all show signs of cracking around the bondline area of the hull (bottom half) and I believe that none of them were used for freestyle since none had footholds when I got them. You can either reinforce now, or wait until cracks show up.
 
Frosty

Frosty

New York Crew
Location
Western New York
GDFL said:
There are plenty of people that ride with completely stock hulls and do just fine. You should strongly consider reinforcing if you plan on doing anything in the air with your superjet. Reinforcing mainly helps during the learning stage of each trick. "Reinforcing" tricks could include nose stabs, barrel rolls, backflips, huge air straight jumping, etc. I have 3 squarenoses and all show signs of cracking around the bondline area of the hull (bottom half) and I believe that none of them were used for freestyle since none had footholds when I got them. You can either reinforce now, or wait until cracks show up.
Click to expand...

I agree. However, I will say that if you are looking for a winter project... then yes I would take the time to reinforce during your off season. Can't hurt.
 
tom21

tom21

havin fun
Location
clearwater FL
maybe you should ride a little before you go headlong into a project like that. you may not get to that point for a while(riding ability wise) Ive had stock standups for 3 years and just recently stepped up to a 97 SJ with a b-pipe. My skills are not to the point where I will be doing major damage to my hull. more like to myself. If/when I see that I have progressed to the point where I see it is a problem then it will be time. In the meantime there is plenty to learn and master.
 
Superjet 9195

Superjet 9195

Dude... you can jump that
Location
Salisbury, NC
tom21 said:
maybe you should ride a little before you go headlong into a project like that. you may not get to that point for a while(riding ability wise) Ive had stock standups for 3 years and just recently stepped up to a 97 SJ with a b-pipe. My skills are not to the point where I will be doing major damage to my hull. more like to myself. If/when I see that I have progressed to the point where I see it is a problem then it will be time. In the meantime there is plenty to learn and master.
Click to expand...


Tom, Yeah I know that I am really not at a point where I am going to be able to use most of what I have done to this ski. My intentions were not initially to do what I have done but the whole reason I started this project was the guy who owned the ski before me painted it the most god-awful pink-purple color I have ever seen and I wanted to repaint it. The guy before me had done a bunch of engine mods so the ski already had a factory b-pipe, aluminum flywheel, aluminum handlepole, umi bars, a drop nozzle kit, west coast head, performance water box and some other things, he just never did any of the hull mods. So I decided to do the rest, with the footholds, one-way valve, hood mod and the hull reinforcement I think the ski will be pretty sweet. Even if I can only use 10% of its potential. The fact that I have the ski totally apart and stripped down makes it the perfect time to do the hull reinforcement rather than later when I have to pull the engine again.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom