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Started by _Bomber Watson_ , May 19 2012 03:44 PM

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#26 limo

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 07:27 PM

pity you are way away bomber I have a set of moulds here for an old style Lewis 17ft race boat, klinker bottom you could build that wooden deck on a fibreglass hull. much more practical.
I did a couple that way back in the late seventies for custom decks
actually there is a klinker style fibreglass skiboat 18ft I think sitting out at the farm, it's bare though but on trailer

Damn you bomber, now I've been looking at that site dreaming of boats. Though it has always been a dream of mine to build a boat from sratch. Though I think I take the path of using a proper propulsion system (i.e. a jet unit)

I would go stern drive

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#27 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 07:43 PM

No such thing as to far away mate....

Look here:

http://www.kmrolco.c... Price List.pdf

Page 29, it says "BELL HOUSING, GEARBOX - BORG WARNER / Z.F. 450.00"

Is that a Z drive as you mention?? Cheaper than i expected.....Think it may just be an empty box, but still, atleast you can get it for a holden six

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Considering i dont intend on starting this for some time, probably not worth annoying them about it yet

Cheers.

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 08:30 PM

I would say that was just the bellhousing then you mount the gearbox to it, no price given for box (page32) they are very good boxes though
work like an auto trans gives smooth take off and forward/reverse, I put one on a midmount 350 for a guy
a Z drive is basically same as V drive but gears are straight cut up and down and the input/output shafts are parralell, in at top front - out bottom back

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 08:36 PM

boat the red one is a clinker
not very good view though will look for others if you like

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#30 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 21 May 2012 - 08:58 PM

Simmilar shape to Hustler

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My current boat.

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#31 _oldjohnno_

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 07:02 AM

Nice. Named after a favourite magazine?

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 08:34 AM

My great uncle (Jim Hammond) and his Brother (Harry Hammond) designed and built the "Hammond" ski boats

(Jim left Harry with it and went on to built trawlers and army tugs)

now they are a sexy boat!

I'm determined to find and restore a wood or glass hulled one (would love an original wooden hulled one the most)..... and fit a dirty big KB hemi into it (the way they were designed

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#33 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 22 May 2012 - 06:16 PM

Johnno, that was the name when i got it, Think it was named after the rims on the boat trailer!!!

Thinking today, Considering my wood working skills might just be easyer to look out for another boat like Hustler, just in worse nick, and mod the shit out of everything so it looks simliar to the one above...We shall see what transpires hehehe. Main thing i'll have to pay carefull attention to when inspecting possible donor Huls will be the shape of the bottom, the Skif type style have the engine a fiar bit further foward than your usual Social ski boat, So the bottom doesnt flatten out on a social boat as soon as it would on a skif...

Would just start cutting Hustler up, but she's a pretty tidy old rig, goes like a cut snake and currently i could sell her for a rather big profit, Just to good to cut up and move the engine foward etc.

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Posted 24 May 2012 - 10:46 PM

something like this blown 202 midmount wooden skiboat? Posted Image

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Posted 25 May 2012 - 05:49 PM

That looks nice. What's it go like?

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Posted 25 May 2012 - 06:27 PM

looks very nice. got a pics of the boat as well?

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#37 _Bomber Watson_

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Posted 25 May 2012 - 06:28 PM

Eeeewww Eaton, cool though hehe.

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Posted 26 May 2012 - 10:46 AM

A good mate of mine bought the boat, an I got the engine. The motor came out as soon as he took delivery of the boat so I don't know what it goes like yet. It was built by a bloke called Peter Wilson in Hamilton Vic. I am told when he was racing he was trading positions alot with another boat of the same hull but with a 3.8 v6 twin throttle motec dry sump thing that I know does fly (see this page http://seacraftskibo...com/page12.html )