NICKYPOO's Ballast Thread

[NICKYPOO]

Looking good Nicky can't wait to see the end result.

Ya, you and me both dude.

I thought all this was just an additional 50#

Oh ya. Well, kinda. Used to be I could fit around 500# in the trunk. The whole trunk. Just too far from ideal for me to stomach any longer.

Looking real good.

You are a brave and industious man to takle such a job.

Makes drilling a few holes for thru hulls seem rather like child's play.

Thanks for sharing and the pics....

Thanks man. Brave and industrious? IDK about that. More like poor and probably foolish. Had I been able to afford a new Z3, none of this would have ever happened.

...and for all of you who are nervouse about your little thru hulls, you're all a bunch of...J/K

[FacePlant]

Funny, I was thinking to myself...where the HELL is his motor?? Then I realized 2 things.

1. It is a 22i
2. I am a moron.

[NICKYPOO]

Funny, I was thinking to myself...where the HELL is his motor??

Ha! Ya, its where your fuel tank is.

[Wakeman22]

With this huge project you have taken on I now feel confident I can do a regular ballast install in my 24ve. Wow lots of work you have done. Very industrious. Great job!!!

[NICKYPOO]

I had my coating specialist come by today and take a look. He had a sample of some new rubberized stuff that was pretty bitchen but pretty spendy. He suggested going with some bedliner. I think I will.

Got the two main partitions cut and roughed in. I still need to cut the angle for the seat back but I have lined out ant they are looking dead nuts on the mark or at least close enough. It's not the easiest thing in the world to make a square box inside something that has zero square surfaces. I guess the year I spent building interiors for custom busses is finally coming in handy.

Meanwhile, a shadowy shape lurks on the other side of the garage, waiting for some love.

[NICKYPOO]

Got the new bulkheads roughed in today. Took me a good 4hrs. Lots of in and out of the boat, making templates, trimming, checking, scribing, more the checking, more trimming, more scribing, in the boat, out of the boat. I must have made that climb and descent 50 times today.

It's coming along. One piece at a time.

[IDBoating]

I totally respect what you're doing and going through. Fine tuning my battery shelf (also using a wood template) involved countless climbs in and out of the boat just to shave a tenth here, an eighth there.

When you're done, though, it's totally worth it!

[chpthril]

Progress is looking great is that an International all camo'd in gray primer and housewares

[NICKYPOO]

Progress is looking great is that an International all camo'd in gray primer and housewares

Not a piece of farm equipment. That is my '72 K10. My first truck (I've never owned a car). I bought it off my stepfather (who bought it '73) for 4k back in '91. It's currently cocooned in a three layers of super primer. The interior looks like the back of my boat. I just found the original factory AM radio for it. You can see it on the dash. I used to tow my buddy's '72 Cobra Jet with it. He and I decided we need to have a race to see who can restore our vintage hotrods first. His project is a little easier than mine. The Cobra is an 18' jetboat (Sanger mold) with a 427 Chevy and Berkeley 12J. Together, they are a bitchin setup.

[chpthril]

Not a piece of farm equipment. That is my '72 K10. My first truck (I've never owned a car). I bought it off my stepfather (who bought it '73) for 4k back in '91. It's currently cocooned in a three layers of super primer. The interior looks like the back of my boat. I just found the original factory AM radio for it. You can see it on the dash. I used to tow my buddy's '72 Cobra Jet with it. He and I decided we need to have a race to see who can restore our vintage hotrods first. His project is a little easier than mine. The Cobra is an 18' jetboat (Sanger mold) with a 427 Chevy and Berkeley 12J. Together, they are a bitchin setup.

Cool, it looked like it may have been a Scout.

[Wakeman22]

Very good progress and as said before "VERY INDUSTRIOUS".

[NICKYPOO]

Got a little more done today. Dado'd the bulkheads in and notched the tank floor and partition around them. I also cut the angles for the seat back into the partitions. Also managed to get a small splinter.

[Wakeman22]

Thats not a splinter, thats a shard.

Looking nice.

[topaz surfer]

Progress looks good. That's sweet that you are motivated to put in all that work. Nothing like a little sacrafice for the project, nice splinter that should give you that extrat room for more ballast. LOL

[NICKYPOO]

It's finally starting to look like something.