I've been busy.

[Mark Tucker]

Thought I'd re-do some interior while the motor is out of the boat. Re-did the kick panels and lower panels. Going to put the diamond cut mat in place of the old crunchy carpet on the side panels. I completely removed all old speaker wire and replaced it with 16 awg marine rated wire with the LED wire integrated in the same jacket. New LEDs and controller and then a new system once the motor is back in. Will post more pics of the finished product.

Amp Panel.jpg Kick Panels.jpg Engine compartment.jpg side before.jpg side after.jpg

[JollyRoger]

Nice work Mark!

[Randy-X2]

post up pics when finished ......

[jim r 2012 18SS]

Motor! What happened?

[~Chad~]

Going EV👍

[Mark Tucker]

Going EV👍

EV?

[Mark Tucker]

Motor! What happened?

Well, a combination of things. Boat overheated at the end of last year. Brand new impeller shredded ( Sierra). I limped it back to the courtesy dock as we were only about 50 yards away. I went through the Tstat and all the hoses and found all the pieces. Thought that maybe the input hose to the impeller might be clogged with something so I flushed that and it was fine. after reading some comments on the Amazon page, I found about half a dozen people had the same issue with the impeller they bought. The Amazon Dealer is Stay Cool Pumps. What eventually help cause the motor to go was the dreaded VP fuel pump paint chips. Forum cylinder was runner leaner than the others causing more heat. When the boat overheated, Forum dropped a sleeve. The mechanic pulled the plugs and turned over the motor and water came shooting out of cylinder Forum New motor will be installed in 2 weeks. Wanted to go with a stroker motor, but my mechanic said it would take about 3 months due to finding some one to reprogram the ECU, so I just went back to stock. He said he could build one that was carburated, but I have the GXI with the Multi port injected motor and didn't want to lose that. 320 hp is enough for me.

[Mark Tucker]

One side is done. Night and day difference from the old tan carpet. Side panel.jpg

[Abhiser87]

Where did you get that diamond cut mat? That looks awesome.

[Mark Tucker]

Where did you get that diamond cut mat? That looks awesome.

Amazon

[~Joey~]

Nice!!

[Mark Tucker]

I'm putting in a Fusion stereo and it is smaller than the single din opening. Found a guy on FB that CNCs these out of acrylic and laser etches them. Stereo plate.jpg Stereo plate.jpg

[Red98202]

That looks great. What Fusion did you get? I installed an MSra70 last year and it went right in to the factory din adapter. Would like to upgrade to the look you've got there, but the factory dash opening is breaking apart where the radio mount/cover goes through and I'm not opening that can of worms until I need to.

[Randy Andersen]

Well, a combination of things. Boat overheated at the end of last year. Brand new impeller shredded ( Sierra). I limped it back to the courtesy dock as we were only about 50 yards away. I went through the Tstat and all the hoses and found all the pieces. Thought that maybe the input hose to the impeller might be clogged with something so I flushed that and it was fine. after reading some comments on the Amazon page, I found about half a dozen people had the same issue with the impeller they bought. The Amazon Dealer is Stay Cool Pumps. What eventually help cause the motor to go was the dreaded VP fuel pump paint chips. Forum cylinder was runner leaner than the others causing more heat. When the boat overheated, Forum dropped a sleeve. The mechanic pulled the plugs and turned over the motor and water came shooting out of cylinder Forum New motor will be installed in 2 weeks. Wanted to go with a stroker motor, but my mechanic said it would take about 3 months due to finding some one to reprogram the ECU, so I just went back to stock. He said he could build one that was carburated, but I have the GXI with the Multi port injected motor and didn't want to lose that. 320 hp is enough for me.

Never had a problem with Sierra impellers, granted, I have a Merc BIII so may be different design. So this was on a VP drive? SX or Duoprop?

[Mark Tucker]

SX Drive.