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I had a hard time not buying the same set. I really like those and they will look awesome on the black trailer and black lower hull. Unfortunately for me I called the dealer to find out what size tires and wheels I needed (my boat is in storage up north) and they told me 185/80R13 (which is incorrect)... RecStuff.com is awesome though and while they couldn't wave the 20% restocking fee (because they now have to sell a "used wheel/tire") they did work with the shipping company to hook me up on rates so that I don't have to pay the full return shipping on top of the shipping for my new order. Great customer service there and by far the best prices I was able to find on aluminum wheels. You Sconnies aren't all bad I tell ya.
Got her back from the dealer, where I dropped her off Monday. New sparks and she's got my new impellers. I should have taken a picture of the 3500' altitude impellers to show the difference, but Impros came through and got me my new screws . Cant wait to sea trial them. I can tell you there is a HUGE difference in the pitch between high altitude and 3500' altitude impellers. Sea level impellers vs the 3500' altitude impellers difference is not nearly as visibly obvious. In the high altitude screws, you can actually see the 3rd rotation pitch go completely flat (it almost looks like it curls upward!).
Old screw, you can see a couple dings on it... irony is I only used this screw maybe 8 trips and didn't pull a whole ton of crap out of the clean out ports either.
Look at that upward curl at the end! It makes a lot of sense to have it configured like this for 6500'. I may just hold onto these, though I suspect it wouldn't be too long before someone in my area just wants high altitude screws and doesn't want to wait the time it takes to get them re-pitched. These would have worked great for me had I not done my performance mods to the air intake system.
Edit. I also installed my skylon wake surf rack. Will get pictures of that when it isn't snowing.
P.s. Backing your boat down the side of your house solo in the rain (with rain getting on side views and windows) is no fun at all.
Brought the boat home this weekend, and finally got to put the new wheels on. Now that I've got two spares, I'm finally able to use my spare tire cover!
Started to check off a few items on the punch list today, was nice to spend a lot of time digging in/around the boat today now that she's out of storage.
Installed 6 Polk MM651s (4 in stock location, 2 additional up by driver/passenger) and ran the speaker wire to helm on the 2 new speaker locations
Organized my thoughts on mounting a MB Quart na540.6 to drive them in the helm compartment. Cut the wood pieces for mounting it on the right side on the compartment as you look aft.
Measured total wire needed to wire up a Blue Seas Add-a-Battery kit (w/ ACR)
Thinking about mounting the batt. switch inside the glove box (left side), thinking it'll just be a bit more wire, but soooo much more convenient to use. Am I crazy or genius to put it in there?!?
And generally got the boat more dirty and made my job harder to clean it before she gets wet the first time, but totally worth it!
* Installed my new speakers
* Changed oil in both engines
* Greased all the bearings and cables (still need to grease wheel bearings)
* Noodled table legs
* New Scupper is ordered, should hopefully be here this week so I can get it installed this weekend.
* Then just a good cleaning inside and out to get it ready for the Loop Cruise in a couple weeks
* Also, got the engine oil, transmission fluid/filter, and transfer case fluid changed on my truck (trying to work my way through its 100,000 mile service).
Oil & filter change! Greasing the engine next weekend and hopefully putting her in! (if only the barge would come and dump in the lift................ *anxiously waiting*)
Garret from River Valley Power & Sport was a real sport and came all the way up from Rochester to Lake Minnetoka to give me a proper delivery experience/lesson on driving a jet boat. We put about 3 hours on her and basically had the lake to ourselves. It was the perfect day to play hookey, about 74deg with little wind and almost no crowd. Got in a bunch of docking attempts and a lot of low speed maneuvers around some buoys to get comfortable with using the two engines to turn.
Here she is ready to go:
Even convinced my wife to get in some driving time - well someone has to tow me!
Cut my first few holes Now to cut the important one on the swim platform
Got the new M505 installed, one of the remotes and relocated the cruise assist. Notice how close of a fit the remote is because of the way they changed the dash from 12-13. Grrrr. It had to be almost a perfectly centered hole.
I installed my gasket in place if using caulk under the clean out tray. Should make getting in and out of there much easier. Starting the annual maintenance now!
Also got the boat stereo finished. I let Earmark Marine finish my install. Here is the sub.
And the helm speaker...
And the other mid cabin port side speaker
Here is my custom air suspension sub enclosure mounted.
And the amp rack...
. Cant wait to sea trial them. I can tell you there is a HUGE difference in the pitch between high altitude and 3500' altitude impellers. Sea level impellers vs the 3500' altitude impellers difference is not nearly as visibly obvious. In the high altitude screws, you can actually see the 3rd rotation pitch go completely flat (it almost looks like it curls upward!).
