Come on guys, its a 73 Kona, its not a real wood deck.   I would still do everything I could to save it because I like it.   But, konajet its your boat and it only needs to make YOU happy, so if you don't like it, paint it.   

Bad ass. wheres my chic gonna sit. lol. It will be gone by the time i get 3 gs . gonna be close to 2000 hp this time around so im thinking a bigger hull. possibly a cat with a prop. I dont know tho. I got too much on my plate rite now to think straight. Today I ripped out the new stringers and am almost done with a new set, tom glassin to the bottom like i should have. ugg my skin hurts from sanding the floor all day. I wore shorts and short sleve, no safty nuthin,lol :screwy:thats me dee de dee.



I start a new thread tom bro, sorry to thread jack. Jimmy

 LOL, no worries about the thread jack, its normal around this place. 

But seriously, your gunna need a different boat.   You cant just toss 2000hp in a normal boat, you'll shoot your eye out. 

  I know,  I know,  but I wont say because I cheated and Googled it.   

 If you can rebuild a motorcycle engine you can easily rebuild a jet pump.   

 Give Tom or Josh at Jet Boat Performance a call, they have good prices on the kits and EXCELLENT phone tech support.  They can walk you through it in a way even I was able to understand.
 http://www.jetboatperformance.biz/

 Greg just got back to me and I was right.  Its not a normal 19' Daytona bottom.  There where plugs that went into the molds for some of the OB hulls and thats one of the different (OB) bottoms.  He said its not really useable as a jet hull without drastic mods, but it would be fast as an OB.

 Sense I dont want it, heres a link to its F/S thread. 
http://www.screamandfly.com/showthread.php?248621-1982-Eliminator-Daytona-Pickelfork-19-Foot-Mod-VP-Boat-Tunnel-Hull-%28New-Price%29

 Your killin me Pleshy. 

 Dont make me drive all the way down there, again. 

I have say your crazy I would not have the balls to cut up my hull but it looks good

 Finally figured that out huh.   Everyone else around here has known that for a looooong time.   

 

And there it is folks...The Proppydella's new name....


Your a brave man proppy, a brave man indeed...

GT

 Not yet GT,  brave will be when I actually have to put it in the water a trust it to NOT kill me.     

 I did some grinding and rearranging of things today.  The angles where a bit off last night, I actually had to drop the front of the sponson back down 1/2".   Its all held together with wood blocks and metal straps for now.  I'm going to let it sit for a few days and just look and measure for a bit before I start glassing, I dont want to have to cu it back apart.   

 Heres some side to side shots to show the final differences.

According to USCG it was made by Power Custom Boats in Lake Havasu. The last digits verify it is indeed a 78 model year.

Ray

 Read the fine print Ray.    

 I'm going to say its was actually built by Streaker Boat CO in Sacramento CA.   But I'm not the best at decoding those USCG dates. 

when can I drop my brendella off  ?  (Sleek Freak)

   

 As soon as you finish it.       Now get back to work on it. 

  I thought that was you.  Brad didnt change your screen name yet ?

 

i have been looking at every pic and waiting for the next installment! beautiful work!!!  you have way more patiences then i ever had i would have taken a hammer to it, by now  cant wait to see more pics!!! 

 I've smacked it with a hammer many times.     But for some reason ( ) I just cant give up on it. 

 I decided to tackle another project before jumping into the sponson issue.

 I had to make a shoe for this stupid intake.  Its a different size than a standard shoe (longer), so I had to make it myself.  I figured I would just start out with a flat shoe and see where it puts me.   Gotta start somewhere.

 I cleaned up the shoe pad, it was a bit corroded and not exactly flat anymore.

 

 Then I looked around in the spare parts pile and found a piece of 1/2" Aluminum.  It was a piece of the old set back OB mount from the Daytona, so yea, I finally found a use for an OB part. 
 Marked out what I needed and broke out the precision cutting tools. 

 

 

 Got it cut and cleaned up a bit.  Then kinda guesstimated where to cut for the leading edge.  Had to make a guess as to where the angle from the inside of the intake would need to end up.  I'm sure theres some kind of math to figure it out, but who has time for that.

 

 

 Got the mounting holes drilled (mostly in the right spots  ) and counter sunk the two front ones.  A couple of the rear holes where slightly off, but nothing drastic.

 

 

 Then grabbed the grinder and sander and ground out/blended the inside angle to match the intake. My guesstimate was fairly close, had to grind it back a bit, but thats better than cutting it to short. 

 

 All done, almost.  Still need to cut the pad for the ride plate, and do a bit of blending at the rear of the intake fins.

 

 Finally got some progress pics for everyone. 

 The keel / center pod is done (ish), it will still need some blending and a final straightening once the intake is set.  But for now its good to go.      It feels good to finally start to see some real progress on this stupid thing.  This is the first area that I can actually look at and see that there might be some hope for this old lump of glass.

 

 

 

 

 

 Now its time to start chopping into the sponsons.