The Naked Bot

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Because some things just look better naked. Like the tittle says, naked, no graphics, no decals, no paint, no powdercoat, no lipstick, no mascara.
Picked this up from the Captain a couple of years ago, finally finishing up. First step: undressing.



Believe it or not, removing graphics took off a pound.

 

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One of the reasons I went with this hull was I wanted to run a 155 pump and the Captain had already shoe horned in a 155 shoe. I still needed to massage the wear ring.

I wanted to an OE type set up with thru bolts, so I used some EZ's to thread wear ring.


Drilled stock boss for dual cooling.

Thrust Nozzle/Trim. Here's the magic numbers.

 

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I knew I'd be flipping the stator so I wanted a way to " lock" the housings since I knew the dowels would no longer line up. I used some weld nuts and spacers to size up some standard bolts for thru bolting.



These would act like dowels. When I knew what I needed I had "hat" bushings fabbed up.

To lock the wear to the stator I thru drilled some EZ's to act as guide bushings.



Bolt together OE pump, off the shelf bolts.

 

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The next thing was addressing the breathing issue. Aquabot hoods suck for breather tube placement. They have a single wall section at the front of the hood, cavity at the back. The Captain had put these in with intentions of adding hoses later. I wanted to run a Limited slip 4.7 so hoses were out of the question in this location. I also didn't want water just pouring down on motor/exhaust so I decided to make a baffling baffle or a perplexing plenum. This is what the Captain had.


This is what I did.

Mocked up fiberglass test lays. used MDF for buck.


When I knew what I wanted I moved to carbon.


Jig for cutting.

 

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After I had 2 halves I added a spigot for breather hose.

Question, is it still visual carbon if you can't see it? This is inside.

 

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I bonded halves together. These were 3 layers with intentions of final wrapping layer.

Next I fabbed a holder for this.

 

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Made some hardware for attaching. Wound up not using carbon bevel washers, at least I learned how to make them.

 

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I hung this from top of hood thru breathers.

I'll run Outwear socks over grates. Hopefully this will help control water ingestion.

 

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Next task was to mount Limited Slip 4.7. I'm thinking tank+fuel+battery= cinder block. Decided to make a tank tray.

Wound up closing this side later.

 

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I engineered tray so tank would fasten to it.

 

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Next up was PFP Pipe mounting. I had to grind 2 inserts out and fabbed up clip to mount tank and pipe.

 

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I can't stand bungees with twists and knots so I made clips to work with standard lengths.

 

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I made plate to hold waterbox off side of hull, with captive bungees like the tank. I made PFP bungees captive also.

 

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Front corner of tank was too close to pipe, Limited Slip hooked me up with this mod.

 

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Pipe sits like this fully strapped in.

 

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All my carbon non-sense added this weight wise.

 

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The Captain had this boat for a short time and this is how the aluminum drains looked. I bonded in SS weld nuts for drain/plugs.

 

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After my Rickter I figured drains would be better, so I had to come up with drains that would fit an M10 hole. A quick trip to my buddy FlashFx's magic machine shop and presto, Mike-Ro Drains 2.0.

 

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Hull layup was thin by front hood pin, used rain gutter for mold, added carbon.

 

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Some SS nonsense, turned down a bilge fitting for a bow eye.