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Yea , those little b*%+*$$$ will be real fun to instal!!!! What I was thinking of doing is I'm going to mock mount them, grease the bolts and the part that goes on the outside. Then put it together (install them) and pour, brush some epoxy on the inside. This way I should be able to perminately have the mounting plate fixed inside. Be able to remove bolts and pedestal mount. Then for final install I will just smear some silicone on there before mounting them. That's pretty much how I mount most of the stuff like that. On things that have 5mm plus bolts you can get by without greasing but the little ones sometimes break when trying to remove from epoxy, then it's a real problem.
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Installation of the pedestal mounts. Well I thought they would be a real pain in the a** to do. But it wasn't that bad. I greased the outside of the mount in order to be able to remove it for painting and to epoxy the mounting bracket in place.
A pic of the mounting plate epoxied in place and if you look real hard in the last pic you can barley see the plate in the back on the right side. Made sure I will never have to go there again!!!
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Oh i forgot to mention that I used the grease on the mount because I needed to remove this part after glueing in place. Grease on a part will not let the epoxy stick to it so it can be removed easily.
Some pics of the stingers installed. As noted earlier in this thread the stinger pedestal angle adjustment shafts were not in need of modifying. As you can see their is some negative angle.
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And the tunnel seemed a little soft , so one more layer of carbon. The pattern goes from behind the motor mounts to the vertical supports in the front. I'm not sure if the pics are that visible but the last two are pics of the two vertical supports in the front deck. One layer of cf from top covering the vertical supports and tying the top to the bottom. This should wrap up the reinforcing. After the resin set up and cured I felt like I could stand on this hull. I would love to just to see if it could take it but I'm not that confident it could! But it is pretty strong now. And best part it doesn't seam that weighted, I tried to remove any excess resin as it doesn't add strength just more weight. Before paint I will get a weight and post if anyone is curious. And anybody find out what the stock hull weighs in at?
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Started working on placement of the brains.
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Speaking of brains,
Where that tug you were working on, And that pissed off cat ?
Did you give him the boot.
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Ahhh , the tug,,,, she is in dry dock awaiting paint. I just got some colors for her the other day. Some of the time spent it the airport lol. Im going to try and do the painting of both at the same time, looks like in a couple weeks. Maby longer as I'm heading to Dominican in a couple weeks.
Ahhh the cat,,, we named him the devil cat. He is creepy, he just shows up staring at you. Like the butler in that mr deeds movie ( Adam Sandler movie). I'm sure he will get in another pic, just hope it's not the news after he slashes our throats when we are sleeping!!! And he has razor blades for claws! Rips right through any food bag-he is like a dog, we have to hide all food (except frut) or he will open it.Comment
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CUt that big pussy claws, 
That is what I do to my cats.
I just wait till their sleeping,
And pick one up at time and do it while their half asleep.
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Lately this devil has decided that he has to be on my lap or in the boat when I'm in the garage. Milling machine, belt sander, drill press, even shop vac doesn't even scare him away!! Not to mention if I get a ham sandwich for lunch I have to lock him out- he is like a dog not a cat! Maine coon cats definitely are a breed apart!
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I'm installing bottom water pick-ups. I wanted a little more of an opening than the ones you can buy so I tried to make my own. I think it's a fine line with bigger and too big. These are basically a longer angle than the stock ones. All the waterlines will have clamps except on the speedo. I don't like castles design on the cooling tubes, they are spaced too close for using any larger diameter lines. On high pressure setups (fast speeds) I sometimes use wire for a clamp as it can be used in tight areas like on the castle controllers. I sure don't want a like coming off at 80+ mph. Doesn't take long to flood a boat.
And started working on battery trays.
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And a motor mount support. This will get thinned down as much as possible to save weight. Possibly be a location for hatch bolts also. It's been slow work on this as I have a funeral to go to tomorrow. But getting back into the swing so more to come soon.
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Cooper on the castles take a drill bit the same size as the id of cooling tubes and bend outwards just a tiny bit. If you do this n all four ends you will have enough room to get 1/4 inch tubing on with ease.my youtube videos http://www.youtube.com/user/chris81983?feature=mheeComment
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? ONLY IF THEY WORK 
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