Start to Finish: Building Our 50' Skater
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The screws in the window are temporary till its all fitted. We machined these window buttons that will be on the outside of the window to give it a bigger contact area. They will have a silicone sleeve to insulate them from the window. There will be a thin layer of silicone material between the window and boat also.
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Awesome... Just got turned onto this, took awhile to make it through
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Couple questions:
- I noticed in the first dyno post when the exhaust coating got hot, you could see the hot air getting sucked into the intake. I know the headers will eventually have water & be cooler, but would running an extension off the inlet to supply cooler air make a noticeable HP gain?
- Knowing fatigue is part of any endurance run. Do you plan to make the steering wheel mobile with the seat suspension? With 8" of seat travel, I imagine fatigue would be cut down if the steering moved with the seat. Some sort of bracket off the seat base to an extended steering shaft / wheel via u-joint?
Thanks for taking the time to post your progress, so impressive!
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Couple questions:
- I noticed in the first dyno post when the exhaust coating got hot, you could see the hot air getting sucked into the intake. I know the headers will eventually have water & be cooler, but would running an extension off the inlet to supply cooler air make a noticeable HP gain?
- Knowing fatigue is part of any endurance run. Do you plan to make the steering wheel mobile with the seat suspension? With 8" of seat travel, I imagine fatigue would be cut down if the steering moved with the seat. Some sort of bracket off the seat base to an extended steering shaft / wheel via u-joint?
Thanks for taking the time to post your progress, so impressive!
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Couple questions:
- I noticed in the first dyno post when the exhaust coating got hot, you could see the hot air getting sucked into the intake. I know the headers will eventually have water & be cooler, but would running an extension off the inlet to supply cooler air make a noticeable HP gain?!
- I noticed in the first dyno post when the exhaust coating got hot, you could see the hot air getting sucked into the intake. I know the headers will eventually have water & be cooler, but would running an extension off the inlet to supply cooler air make a noticeable HP gain?!
- Knowing fatigue is part of any endurance run. Do you plan to make the steering wheel mobile with the seat suspension? With 8" of seat travel, I imagine fatigue would be cut down if the steering moved with the seat. Some sort of bracket off the seat base to an extended steering shaft / wheel via u-joint?
Thanks for taking the time to post your progress, so impressive!
Thanks for taking the time to post your progress, so impressive!
We will have autopilot on the boat so in rough water when were not going real fast you will not have to hold onto the steering wheel either. The seats have 8" travel but that is kind of worst case. normally they will only move a little bit that will be around the same amount you would move up and down in the foam of a normal seat.
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Saturday night I went to the West Michigan Offshore clubs party ( https://westmichiganoffshore.squarespace.com/41616 ) and met a bunch of nice people. A few of them said they wanted to come by and see the new Skater I'm building over here in Douglas MI. A couple of the guys text me on Sunday and I said I was at Skater working on it so they came over. Then they spent there Sunday afternoon helping me modify my suspension seats for the boat. It was a time consuming process when it's only one person doing the work but by them helping it only took a couple hours. Thanks again for the help.
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If the steering column were mounted / supported by the seat structure instead of thru the dash it would move up & down w/ the seat so you'd always be in the same seating position in relation to the wheel..
A 6 way harness w/ sub straps would be required in order to keep you from sliding forward into it.
The knee knocker I posted way back would be a way to pad it & keep your legs from banging against it.
A 6 way harness w/ sub straps would be required in order to keep you from sliding forward into it.
The knee knocker I posted way back would be a way to pad it & keep your legs from banging against it.
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Saturday night I went to the West Michigan Offshore clubs party ( https://westmichiganoffshore.squarespace.com/41616 ) and met a bunch of nice people. A few of them said they wanted to come by and see the new Skater I'm building over here in Douglas MI. A couple of the guys text me on Sunday and I said I was at Skater working on it so they came over. Then they spent there Sunday afternoon helping me modify my suspension seats for the boat. It was a time consuming process when it's only one person doing the work but by them helping it only took a couple hours. Thanks again for the help.
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The storage box is fiberglassed down, it acts as the bulkhead mount for the front seats. The cockpit is a few inches longer then normal because of having the box in the middle and at the front of cockpit the windshield is normal width but then the cockpit widens out to around 8" wider then normal towards the back so I would have room to put the steps between the middle seats. Normally you could step in the seats to get out of the cockpit but the suspension seats drop when you step into them so I put steps down the middle.