i finally finished my 87condor tx-19 and have already put alittle time on it(30minutes). it ran verrrry hard and this evening i'm taking it out for some wot passes before i go to broken bow lake tommorrow and race the big boys(scott seastrum, chop helms, meagen helms, etc.).here's a couple pics:
the hull was in really bad shape, the floor was rotten, carpet shot. i pulled out the floor and ski, reinforced the stringers some and recarpeted it. i bet i pulled out alittle over 175lbs of oil/water soaked foam and wood.
here what the floor ended up lookin like, i'm not happy with the way the red carpet cut but it matches for now:
here's couple before and after shots of the bow. the gel was in horrible shape. i started with 1000grit wet sanding, moved up to 1500grit in the last pic. buffed it twice, micro polished it twice and glazed it. thru on 3-4coats of turtle wax ice polish, then ice wax(the ice stuff works awesome on gel!).
i went thru the dominator(it was worn out, all factory still) and replaced impellor with a balanced detailed b-cut dominator imp. bronze ring, set the clearence at .028, no inducer. it doesn't need an inducer, it doesn't cavatate when flatfooting iti also built a new fully balanced blown roller alum headed 475bbc(had a shiat roller 468 in it, single carb,single plane intake @450hp) that's pushing the hell outta the boat. goin out today to get a wot top speed on gps and see what the boat will do in the coves.
WOW it looks great. Have fun and be safe...
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