Replacing Exhaust Hoses

Kevin,

My Email is samb.1@att.net

I work at Vision Racing Tony George's team.

Pete,

I am with Pete B on this if your gell coat is not cracked try to wet sand and buff. This seems to help uphold the value of your boat. Mine had some cracking so I had it painted. If I had it to do all over again I would have bought a boat with no cracking and sanded and buffed. But if painting is needed call Jason 317-850-5531. He is our composites expert at the raceteam. Before that he was the painter at Ganassi Racing. His work is a little spendy but you get what you pay for.If you would like to see his work come on over.

Sam

Hey Sam. No more secrets here. I came clean. Not as bad as I thought it would be.

Who did your paint and how much was it? The second hull seems to have good stringers but needs paint.

Thank.

Hey Kevin. You and Sam should come by. I just picked up a second 67 Mustang yesterday in Atlanta. It has all of the original parts.

I bought 4 90 degree stainless 3" bends from Jegs. Tig welded them togeter then polished. Sounds great!

Bends $50.00 each x 4

Just another recipt I dont show the wife.

Sam how did you make those stainless pipes? They look great! Kevin

74SkiNautique wrote: Looks nice same. My new hoses really made a huge difference in performance. MUCH more acceleration.

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by the way, that red Crusader looks awesome!!!

I made stainless exhaust hoses sounds realy good. Just another idea for you guys.

TRBenj wrote: 8122pbrainard wrote: Instead of trying to figure out the firing order which requires looking it up, hopefully the boat has a prop on it! Look from the rear. It will be a RR if the prop rotates clockwise in forward. That piece of advice is all well and good when youre dealing with a boat of this era (70's), but dont forget that 89+ Nautiques with the 1.23 trans use LH engines to spin RH props.

Yea, I think my Grandpas 89 SN has an idler gear or something that reverses the transmissions output directioin.

8122pbrainard wrote: Instead of trying to figure out the firing order which requires looking it up, hopefully the boat has a prop on it! Look from the rear. It will be a RR if the prop rotates clockwise in forward.

That piece of advice is all well and good when youre dealing with a boat of this era (70's), but dont forget that 89+ Nautiques with the 1.23 trans use LH engines to spin RH props.

kevin719 wrote: Which hose did you buy? My front hoses that connect to the manifolds both had pretty nasty kinks as well! I thought that the p.o. just did not slide the hose on far enough but he might have used the wrong hose for that first section that makes the bend.

I got it drom DIM. It is Premium 3" corrugated with wire. Designed for bends over 20 degrees. THAT STUFF WAS TOUGH! My dad and I Barely got them on the manifolds AT ALL! I took pictures of the finished job. LOOKS GREAT!

I got all the hoses off today and completed reinstallation on the port side. Looks great. Better than factory, the factory hoses had two big kinks in them. The front hose was about 70% blocked. I will send pictures if you want. I just need your email. I cant figure out how to post a picture in my text!!!

74 yes thanks for your email! The boat dr. pretty much described what you built as to what came in my boat from the factory!Thanks again I really appreciate it!Kevin

Kevin, did you get my email.

Sorry to get off topic! Here is pics of mi copper pipe.I cleaned it with my die grinder and a 3m scotch pad.I call it a gasket remover.It took about 10 minutes to get the entire pipe and another 5min sanding by hand to get the bulk of the swirls out.I finished with 2 coates of engine clear to hopefully keep it looking clean.There is before and after pics.