by almightygimp1 » May 24, 2011 9:44 am
yeah, i read all of 77 vipers restore, plus i believe i saw a vid on youtube of his boat launching, thing looks and runs wicked. The grinding and tearing out part will be easy for me, ive been tearing up stuff since i came into this world lol. Really though, im a metal worker and i do lots of grinding ( even had a nickname as an apprentice, they called me coffee, cause i grind so fine.) I was a union pipefitter for 10 years, been with a local company since then, so a 4 1/2 grinder is a daily tool of mine. Im not worried in the least about the tearing down part, my worries are the core, getting it bedded, and i have no clue about the bagging part, im still trying to educate myself on this, im guessing its bagged and a vacum is pullled to help seat it in the resin, maybe even pull resin up through it. Also, like i said, ive never done any glass work, and id be hesitant to tackle the transom seeing as how the more i look at motors for this thing the bigger im leaning towards. but we will see, im gonna do the gutting myself and ill start a thread in the restore section, show you my progress, guess i can start on that and make decisions and continue to educate myself on materials and the processes. This isnt going to be a race boat, but i do want 85 out of it or i wont be happy, 90 would be even better. Im thinking a 2.4 now, was previously looking at a 150 xr2 or yama vmax. The more i learn about the go fast world, the more i think i need the 2.4 as it seems a good platform for anything. Ive got the bug for this boat worse than ive ever had it for anything, so im eating sleeping and dreaming stream right now. Probably wont post again for awhile, im gonna do my homework before i get started, next post from me will be in the resto thread. Thanks guys for all the input, i can see im in the right place to learn about this. Here is a picture of the pile, all i did was get her home, havnt touched her since.
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yeah, i read all of 77 vipers restore, plus i believe i saw a vid on youtube of his boat launching, thing looks and runs wicked. The grinding and tearing out part will be easy for me, ive been tearing up stuff since i came into this world lol. Really though, im a metal worker and i do lots of grinding ( even had a nickname as an apprentice, they called me coffee, cause i grind so fine.) I was a union pipefitter for 10 years, been with a local company since then, so a 4 1/2 grinder is a daily tool of mine. Im not worried in the least about the tearing down part, my worries are the core, getting it bedded, and i have no clue about the bagging part, im still trying to educate myself on this, im guessing its bagged and a vacum is pullled to help seat it in the resin, maybe even pull resin up through it. Also, like i said, ive never done any glass work, and id be hesitant to tackle the transom seeing as how the more i look at motors for this thing the bigger im leaning towards. but we will see, im gonna do the gutting myself and ill start a thread in the restore section, show you my progress, guess i can start on that and make decisions and continue to educate myself on materials and the processes. This isnt going to be a race boat, but i do want 85 out of it or i wont be happy, 90 would be even better. Im thinking a 2.4 now, was previously looking at a 150 xr2 or yama vmax. The more i learn about the go fast world, the more i think i need the 2.4 as it seems a good platform for anything. Ive got the bug for this boat worse than ive ever had it for anything, so im eating sleeping and dreaming stream right now. Probably wont post again for awhile, im gonna do my homework before i get started, next post from me will be in the resto thread. Thanks guys for all the input, i can see im in the right place to learn about this. Here is a picture of the pile, all i did was get her home, havnt touched her since.