1968 Mustang Resto-mod Jax, FL

Bill,
I like the rubber. Even without the consideration of the corrosion issue, I use the rubber for vibration isolation.

What John doesn't know is the strapping is copper plated steel. So, I'll have to ask him to look at his periodic table again and see how far apart steel is to aluminum!! The copper plated strap is meant for plumbers hanging copper pipe. I've seen the thin copper plating disappear in less than a year.

Oh boy! Big day today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   It floats and it goes zoooooom! Took the Mustang down to Melrose to Outlaw marine. Don installed the throttle and shift cables. after that was done he talked me in to a strainer system for the raw water. That pretty much took up the day. Then we headed out to the secret test lake. With the rescue boat standing by we headed out onto the water and gently idled around.












ZOOOOOM!!!!

Bill,
Sorry if I missed if you did mention it, but what prop dia. are you running? It looks very close to the hull so do expect prop rash.

13" props like the 540 leave insufficient hull clearance on the 16' hulls.The 12.5" version (1210) is the appropriate prop.

I would caution setting up shaft/strut/engine geometry based on hull clearance- especially when using the incorrect prop.

Not recommended. ;)

Another busy day. Got the aft floor panel cut out, glassed, cpes'd and gel coated. Installed the engine cover. Made some seat mounting pads for the front seats and glassed them to the floor, then gel coated the fore deck. Also got the guide on poles attached to the trailer.

Round 2

Lots more work on the Mustang! I touched up the kick panel and then gel coated it a pretty close match to the Bimini blue seadek I have on order.

Tried tuning the rebuilt carb and after shooting a 6 foot flame in the air and catching carb on fire, we decided to replace it with a new one. Picked up the Ford 600 cfm holley marine. 0-80319-1. Installed it and Snoopy purrs like a lion.

Got the engine cover, ski pole and seats all installed for testing. Still have to pull them out to put in another coat of gel on the deck and then sea deck.

Went out today for a test run to Lake Alto in Waldo, FL. I had a rescue boat standing by. Of course everything went great until we put the rescue boat up and went for a ride. I was running about 36mph at 3400 rpm and heard a couple of loud pops. @#$%. Shut it down and found the water pump belt thrown and some of the metal cords popped.

We put it back on and limped back to the ramp with a windy storm chasing us. Headed to the mechanic a few miles away and we think the belt was damaged during storage/installation. Put on a new belt courtesy of Outlaw marine. The storms cleared after some lunch and finished up the day zooming around Lake Alto.

I managed to get the final coat of white gelcoat on the floor. The front side panels are in, going to do something more to give some storage area behind them.

The stereo is installed. Just an amp really with some 8 inch tower speakers tucked up in the bow and a stereo input jack mounted under the dash. . I will run a mp3 player or maybe get a bluetooth box so people can play tunes from their phones. The amp is a Pyle Hydra and has a nice remote volume control that I installed next to the throttle. Should be great for skiing.

Got the front kick into place and most of the seadek pads installed in the front of the boat.

Took some time off today from sweating and doing interior work. Had a good run on Black Creek and got a nice video.



ZOOOOOOOOOM!

That black frame windshield with that shade of blue looks pretty darn good.

dangerwil wrote: Checking the timing, it kept drifting all around. Turns out the rotor from the mallory e-spark points replacement kit was defective.

Check off another fine example of EI conversion reliability! Why did you ever install it to begin with? Hopefully it wasn't their hype of supposed performance gains!! Put the damn point set back in.

Quite a bit of boat related activities the last few days. Thursday put another hour and a half on the engine. Ran flawlessly.

Headed down to Tampa to check out my new sewing machine a light commercial Family Sew. Got some help from Mom and sewed up the cover for the rear bench. Should be done with interior when thats in.

Stopped by the water ski hall of fame and saw the 1954 Atom Skier. Really neat to see up close! So many design elements I can see carried through to the Mustang.
Stopped at Downtown Disney on the way home and surprise! They have 5 fully restored amphicars. For $125 you can take a ride around the lake for half an hour with up to 3 people.

Cool resto-mod and very impressive gel work.

That Saucer at Disney sure looks crazy!

No! Not a totally practical platform on a pre-77! Blasphemy. I have to admit, my favorite non original Correct Craft.