I picked this up late summer and just started the tear down for rebuild by April 2020. Here's the progress and updates daily/weekly. It's had different motors and interior, when I got it there was an Olds 455 and junk interior. Old's had two dead holes and my BBC had just spun the bottom end, so pulled and sold the OLDs rebuilding the BBC. This boat has been on the site a few times and really needed some love so here we go!

HA HA sorry about the sideways pics!

Day1 compression test and pulling the Olds

Day 3 Foam and pump removal.

We did this for a couple of reasons;
1. typically with a boat this old the foam is full or water and or mold, so it's best to remove it
2. the bow eye is messed up and cannot be fixed properly with out some new backing and fiber glass on the inside.

I was thankful the foam was not water logged or moldy, got lucky.
Foam filled 4 55-gal bags due to shovel and hand size removal. Only 20lbs total, I really expected 40-80lbs

Also pulled the jet pump to get rebuilt.

Day 5 was as expected for the most part, nasty grinder action. Got it all out now need to DA it smooth and decide what to do about stringers. Gotta find some kiln dried wood and marine plywood.

Full on white out, had the fan blowing it out the shop door but that didn't help much.

Day 6 was easy... load up the knocking engine and drop off at machine shop.
Rebuilt should be a BBC 468 8.5:1 basic build up.

Way to get after it!

Are you putting a blower on it?  If NA, I would strongly recommend more compression.

Flusher the previous builder set it up that way using some of his old boosted parts, but I don't have a blower or turbo "yet"... I will if I can $$$$
Jordan it's a day count based on actual days working on the boat not actual days/time in a row, ha ha

Back at it after all the XMas and New Years trips (Glamis & Parker)
Day 7 - pull the trailer out from under the boat to get rebuilt, make dolly for the boat and prep for new stringers.

Going to sand blast the trailer and fix all the years of abuse, rust and old bits...
Only found one major item we didn't see when purchasing, there's a screw poking thru the bottom of the hull from whoever botched the previous floor repair.  Other wise the bottom is as expected with rock/sand rash from beaching. All that will get sanded down, glass added and re-gelled.

Day 8 - stripped down the trailer and sent it to be sand blasted so we can cut grind and refit a few things, then send back for powder coating. Wasn't as rusty as I originally thought. The biggest issue was the float bar tube was completely rusted thru. The rest was just surface rust and normal ware for 40+yrs

Day 10 - Wow I'm excited about some WOOD!

It's been a rough road finding the right wood for the stringers.

1st wood was Kiln dried doug fir. It's "dried" so the moisture is removed and the wood stays true. This is what everyone told me to buy... Well I get some about $60 two 2x6x16ft pieces. They are all outside in the weather and Bakersfield is morning dew and fog ridden during the winters. Sure enough I get the "dried" wood home and in my shop two days later it bends and twists, the exact thing it's not supposed to do.

2nd wood is LVL (laminated vaneer lumber). This is like plywood beams for construction, it's supposed to be layered all the same direction which gives it it's strength and also stays true. Ordered this from Lowes $50 (I think they messed up), wood shows up and it's ugly... One side is great (down side) the other upside is grey and looks to be delaminating (surely sitting up to the sun). I ponder using this for a few weeks trying to find someone to plain it down to clear up the ugly. No dice. Most of the guys said the wood would ruin their plainers due to the glues. Also once plained no ganuatee of a good side, could be holes and glue stained.

3rd wood and last try before just doing ti wrong... Went to another lumber yard and tried to ordered "straight grain/clear" klin dried doug fir again. Told the guys I wanted like  AAA quality wood. They called around and found Hemlock Vertical grain Clear 2x6x12ft at $150. I was really nervous, but WOW this is exactly what I expected from the start of this journey.

Left LVL, Center Hemlock, Right Kiln Dried doug fir

Day 12 - finished grinding out the old stringers and prepped the area for new & setup my stringer blocking 26" inside dimension.

Day 13 - kinda frustrated. Since I'm not a wood craftsmen this is taking longer then expected to get the right results. I'm afraid to cut to much and ruin $150 in wood.
Got the stringers all cut and fitted to the "ends" (Dash bulkhead-front and Transom-rear). Wood is tight and sitting down in the corners, BUT there is a huge gap down the center 1/2-3/4" so I'm struggling to decide how to trim cut down the ends to get it all nice and tight around 1/8" gap max. The 4ft straight edge has less then a 1/8" gap no matter where I put it down the length but the 12ft stringers show 1/2-3/4" gap in the center.
Anyway here are the progress pics...

You might practice on a less expensive piece of wood if you are learning to use any new tools.


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Day 14 - Got the stringers all cut/trimmed and shaped to fit 1/8" or less gap. You can see we started with 3/4" to 1" of gap had to shape the stringer to the hull. Actually cut out more then a inch from the front bulkhead and 1/2" off the transom at varied slopes 2ft-3ft-4ft 1/4" at a time. Skill saw, sander, elect and hand planers all used to get there.

Day 16 - Stringers going in first lay down of glasswork! My buddie is an aviation mechanic/builder for experimental aircraft so he does a lot of fiberglass and carbon fiber work, so I asked him to help with this part. Made up some peanut butter paste (flocks - finely ground cotton fiber) to bond the wood to the floor and a couple of straps to hold it down for today. Tomorrow final glasswork then let it cure out.

We moved the boat from my house to the airport in his trailer on the dolly I built!

We cross/over laid the glass work 5 layers, which equals 8 layers in the crossover sections.
Three different types of glass the majority of it in the box pictured above. Some "bid tape" bi-directional glass for the odd shapes and vertical to flat work. Some other glass i didn't catch the name of for the strapped sections, high strength stuff. Plus the peanut butter Flock used as glue and to round the bottom seam from wood to boat so it's not a 90deg.

Day 18 - Great news we have a running engine again! Video from the machine shop during break in https://www.glamisdunes.com/invision/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=871732.

Wood floors getting built and prepped. Shame to cover those nice new stringers but I wanted a flat floor for ease of install/maintenance. I did cut some access holes in the front to allow me to run cables/wiring down the channels. I also plan to add access hatches for additional storage below the floor. I will not be putting back the foam under the floor. This is 5/8" birch plywood, putting resin on the bottom to seal the wood from water intrusion.

Day 20 - Floors going down. Peanut butter goop for glue down and weighted.

well this site is posting killing me and not letting me add more pics... 

this may be the end of the build thread, if can't get site to load
see this link for more progress https://www.glamisdunes.com/invision/index.php?/forums/topic/366298-75-sanger-superjet-winter-rebuild/

Days 25-30 going ok. Seats, floor, jet, headers, back on trailer! Almost time to assemble.

Couple of update pictures. Waiting on a price for the upholstery.
Finished up moving the tank mounts and repaired the transom where the glass was falling off, no rot thankfully.

  this site hates me and loading of pictures... got the interior done looks great just took way to long

more gel fails

Coming along good....let me know when you gonna go out and lake test I will go out there with ya and spin a few laps at BV

I guess a pre-gel pic might help tell the story some 

There were screw holes, thin keel "beach rash", busted bow eye and some gouges that need to be fixed.

Day 44 - like I said moving forward!

Laid down some Raptor bed liner for a Keel guard and painted the jet intake last night!

Day 45-46 - no pics
got the trailer 100% prepped ready to paint but wind wouldn't cooperate, so wet sanded the sides to smooth out all the lines from gel and the old painted graphics while it was upside down way easier.

next step is to cut/buff/polish the sides and decide on which insert to use the rock grate or loader, then we can flip it back for the last time

Day 47 - DONE with the bottom 100% flipping back over tomorrow night for the "last time"

decided to wet sand 1k, 2k - cut polished - ceramic polished, man the paint feels good all cut down. no more sharp edges from color to color

Looking great and sure is coming together quick

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Engine is IN! moving on to plumbing

The hard lines are very clean...never seen them done like that before

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Looks great.. Getting close to first start up

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Got the hard lines 100% done last night, man I love how they look. Tanks set in but not 100%. Steering cable and helm almost sorted out.
Never looks like much in the pictures but man it's a lot of hours and work just get things to 100%

Waiting on parts now.... We did get a couple of things done over the weekend.
Fab'd a new ride plate and got the pump 100% minus cables.
Sanded 1K, 2K, cut and polished the top side

Waiting on oil and fuel lines so we can finish this build. About 10hrs left when the parts show up.

Woot Woot FINISHED! Ready to hit the water!!!

That thing came out sweet! Congrats

Test went well, noo leaks and everything works as it should. Only a couple of issues to refine.

I couldn't go over 4k rpm with the temporary water pressure gauge setup we did, it kept blowing the hose off at 25psi.
The pass side header has two pin holes spitting water out and making a mess. Hard spot to weld on and now they are coated, so...... maybe a JB weld solution.

Next test and tune adjust ride plate, wedge, diverter one at a time to see how they effect the boats attitude.

Where did you source the floor locker cover?

Thank you

Love this boat!  Really enjoyed seeing your process and all your updates.
Congratulations for winning, you definitely deserve it! Looking forward to seeing you more next summer!



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