WDK F1-PRO (B.C. Canada)

[Fast.Jimmy]

How'd I do? Purchased this passed weekend what I figure is a F1-Pro, I'm told WDK made it in 2012. The seller owned it since 2016 and purchased it from someone in Ontario. Drove 8.5 hours a little bit north of Vancouver and paid the asking price of 4500 CAD
Been looking all summer, market here is tough

I read these hulls came with different pump locations. Best I can tell this has the usual set 2" set back? I'm curious to know..
I rode it for 15 minuets with the fixed steer today to try it out before the fixed steer gave out, Whoops. Swapping back to the pole it came with and trying to remove all the jankyness..Was an ocean ski with little stainless, and most of that is these damn pan head screws. The carbon around the exhaust outlet is pretty tarnished and the nose is pretty yellow. I want to finish up the bottom, fill in any dry looking spots of carbon on the back of the top nose, and most likely turf and paint this winter.

The parts list is getting longer and I can't get any of this rusty junk to come apart, but you should see the smile on my face!

Looking primary for info on building the hull into a versatile flat water ski. The plan is to put a trim nozzle on it, while building something also capable of chasing boats. This will be my second ski, im coming off a 550 with no sponsons this already felt really fun. Can't wait to ratchet strap the hood on tomorrow and go for a boogie

 

[Fast.Jimmy]

I didn't like this head, spark plug hole isnt recessed and my compression tester o ring wouldnt stay put.160 and 158. I was told it's a ported 712. Guessing these 46's are gonna be thirsty...

 

[VXSXH20]

Fixed Fx1

That was Redwood's ski from Ontario. I remember seeing it when it was just finished.

 

[Fast.Jimmy]

Thanks! Figured someone on here would recognize it. Got a little further swapping back to the pole today. Trying to make up a quick hood strap as I don't have a front latch. It's aparant this thing either had or has an exhaust leak for some time.. And look at this chamber! It was a tight fit but man, might try and massage that one a bit.

Biggest hurdle right now has been mounting the steering cable, the alignment to the turn plate is poor and I have no means of securing it. Currently scrolling through to see what others have made.. Curious how I will like this pole length. Thinking I may end up wanting to add couple inches to the pole or maybe ditch it entirely. And spring would be cool, this whole pole setup needs a re do...

 

[Fast.Jimmy]

Small update, tidied up a few more things, and wrapped up the pole swap. Bars sit a bit lower on the right, and after a half a tank this afternoon I can confirm it's very noticeable. I'll be cutting the pole to fix that and definitely going to add some length. Other than that initial comments would be the wide tray is amazing. Very stable. I was amazed on how flat it likes to turn, I barely get to lean the boat over and it hooks way harder than my 550. Very fun, but curious how it might be without the sponsons. Getting my weight back a bit more and sealing up the 3/8" gap on the front of the tubbies might be worth a try too.

 

[Fast.Jimmy]

Laughing at the date I started this post and havent updated since. Update, its in peices!

Two things became aparant after spending little time on this ski. First, scooped intake grates overstuff 144 equiped Fx1s and like to highside at 35.. and second a -10 pole does not work for my 5'10 frame at all. At least not for flat water

I tore this down to a bare hull last year, and preped for few layers of single stage paint, while prepping the hull I found a crack exterior to the firewall joint and decided to glass over the tubbies I likely wont use. Also filled in and leveled the pole mounting area, and gave a wrap of cloth to the excessively clearanced hood lip.

First time using automotive paint, taking sand paper to your beautifully finished paintjob is crazy. But trust the process, it gets even better.

 

[Fast.Jimmy]

Post paint. The hood took just as much time in body work as the rest of the ski, and grafting the lines of the grab handles was a project of its own. Again, trust. The. Process

 

[Fast.Jimmy]

Little snap of the pole thus far. 14mm pivot hardwear, double nut friction setup. 10mm mounting hardwear. Used the start of my mounting plate as a template to redrill some nice straight holes. The WDK hull has a stainless plate in it up here and when it was first drilled im guessing some choice woring was used. Nice and square now. The goal is the pole will be adjustable from -2" to -4" length as plan to run an OVP system. I was aiming to make the pole a little long as I do enjoy chasing boats and this F1 does have an inset pole mount. Little refrence material on what that will be like

 

[Fast.Jimmy]

I made it into the pump for some bearings and found a very chewed up stator, 5 of 6 vanes had damage, time to practice my tig. I asumed someone shimmed this Skat SSL 14-19 prop away from the stator to loosen it up, but later found that its just normal to have 8mm clearance and no additonal shims were added. I blueprinted the prop and corrected a ding.. found the leading edge at 12*. Thinking If I'd bring the trailing edge closer to 17* (measures 19*) it would give me even more stator clearance but match the angle of the stator vanes more, I could then set back this prop 9-10mm and get er real right. Then nozzle bore/smaller cone as needed. Hard to say till I figure out how strong of a power plant I can make of these 62T cases...

 

[Fast.Jimmy]

Another shot of the glass the bond line I made for the turf to come into and some pre turf foam. Really wish this site would let me share all my photos

 

[Big Kahuna]

What you mean about sharing your photos. Just upload them.

 

[Fast.Jimmy]

Hey Kahuna, cool shots. Could you maybe pass along how your able to attach/share/ or otherwise upload high quality photos? Both methods of attaching give me error messages

 

[WFO Speedracer]

Go to this site : https://imgur.com/

Upload your photos , right beside the IGMUR logo is a green box with a + symbol in the middle , click on it , then either drag and drop your photo or click on choose photos , that will upload the photo to the site.

Bring your cursor over to the photo and a get links icon will pop up , beside it is a logo with three dots , click on that and a box will appear , click on get share links, click on it , then click on the third one that says BBCODE (FORUMS),

Paste the linkk to your page that you want it on , it sounds difficult but really it only takes a few seconds once you get used to it.