90 Schiada 21 Refresh

[1fastsedan]

It's time to give the old race boat some love. This boat has been so good to us. My dad drove the shit out of it in multiple ski races and its been to Catalina twice! Plans include exterior/interior gel work, new power plant and rigging. We have a ton of ideas running around but we want to keep it clean, pretty and period correct. My dad and I will be doing most of the work ourselves. We recently refreshed my 97 Howard 220 which I documented here so I thought we should do the same for this one. Not to mention there's nothing like a good father son project. Engine was dropped off yesterday and we will be tearing a part the rest of it for gel work in the next few weeks.

 

[braindead]

It's time to give the old race boat some love. This boat has been so good to us. My dad drove the shit out of it in multiple ski races and its been to Catalina twice! Plans include exterior/interior gel work, new power plant and rigging. We have a ton of ideas running around but we want to keep it clean, pretty and period correct. My dad and I will be doing most of the work ourselves. We recently refreshed my 97 Howard 220 which I documented here so I thought we should do the same for this one. Not to mention there's nothing like a good father son project. Engine was dropped off yesterday and we will be tearing a part the rest of it for gel work in the next few weeks.

whose doing the work?

 

[Marios Metalworks]

Badass. Subscribed and looking forward to the build

 

[1fastsedan]

whose doing the work?

Gregg Suyenaga out of Norwalk is building the engine
RSS Gel will be doing all of the repair and spray to the hull
My dad and I will rig it

 

[1fastsedan]

Going to keep it naturally aspirated and punch it out a little bit more. The old motor was a 468 with brodix heads making 650hp and torque. The new set will use the same heads but will get punched out to a 497. Callies crank, comp cam, JE pistons, Isky lifters and so on. We want a clean long term engine going back in. The last engine went well over 15 years!

 

[1fastsedan]

A little more progress this weekend. Should be off to gel in the next week or two.

 

[1fastsedan]

More prep and decided to cap it. Lots of little repair work, racing sure does take a toll on these boats, especially Catalina.

 

[37 boat]

It's time to give the old race boat some love. This boat has been so good to us. My dad drove the shit out of it in multiple ski races and its been to Catalina twice! Plans include exterior/interior gel work, new power plant and rigging. We have a ton of ideas running around but we want to keep it clean, pretty and period correct. My dad and I will be doing most of the work ourselves. We recently refreshed my 97 Howard 220 which I documented here so I thought we should do the same for this one. Not to mention there's nothing like a good father son project. Engine was dropped off yesterday and we will be tearing a part the rest of it for gel work in the next few weeks.

I remember your dad, I raced against him in stock daycruiser class back in the day...The name Cornelius comes to mind?

 

[1fastsedan]

I remember your dad, I raced against him in stock daycruiser class back in the day...The name Cornelius comes to mind?

Yep! Tuff Cornelius. You see his name still painted on the bridge coming into Parker. He did that when he was 16.

 

[1fastsedan]

Getting some color down.

 

[lenmann]

Looking really good.

What are the plans for the non-skid?

 

[1fastsedan]

Looking really good.

What are the plans for the non-skid?

We only have one section in the rear that needs repair. Just like your repair actually. I sent your link/build over to Steve to see if his guy can do something similar like what you did.

 

[1fastsedan]

The outside is done. Now onto the inside.

 

[AZLineman]

Very nice. I so wana do this to mine.

 

[1fastsedan]

Prepping the inside for gel. Going to keep the balsa exposed and run some colors throughout the inside.

 

[1fastsedan]

Got some clear on the balsa. Prepping for color.

 

[1fastsedan]

She'll be done tomorrow!

 

[1fastsedan]

Just some touching up and we can get her home and start rigging. Engine is almost ready. We received the lifters yesterday and can now start final assembly.

 

[1fastsedan]

She's ready to be picked up.

 

[rivergames]

F'n Nice Buddy!!!! I'm almost done tearing down my Schiada 20' SS. This is awesome!

Did you guys take a good look at the stringers under the floor? Everything look good? It was pretty rough in my 20'

 

[1fastsedan]

F'n Nice Buddy!!!! I'm almost done tearing down my Schiada 20' SS. This is awesome!

Did you guys take a good look at the stringers under the floor? Everything look good? It was pretty rough in my 20'

Sure did. I'm surprised how well she's held up. Everything looked real good minus the typical areas on most raced Schiadas. I'm stoked to see your 20 build. I need to get out and get some measurements on your mini!

 

[1fastsedan]

Starting to get all of the parts back from chrome, polish and powder.

 

[1fastsedan]

Second tank in, we just need to secure both sides to the floor. Cav plates and hardware almost done. New seat bases and Dominator 3rd gen carb!

 

[Badold65]

Everything Looks Amazing!!! Thanks for taking the time to document and post up all your work.

 

[AZLineman]

Beautiful. The hardware that comes from 025Matt is just amazing. Going to be a bitchen ride.

 

[1fastsedan]

Beautiful. The hardware that comes from 025Matt is just amazing. Going to be a bitchen ride.

It was real hard to pass up on these seat bases! The old wing nut job to turn the passenger seat around was a pain. This one pin idea is a luxury now!

 

[1fastsedan]

Waiting on a few more parts from polish/chrome. Once we get the strut aligned we can drop the motor in and get this job wrapped up!

 

[1fastsedan]

Gauges in, just need to tie the old wire into the new gauge harness. Strut and prop shaft aligned. Hopefully dropping the engine in this week pending weather.

 

[AZLineman]

Dont forget the safety collar

 

[1fastsedan]

Dont forget the safety collar

We have a 2 piece collar for the shaft and rudder. We are just getting them cleaned up before install.

 

[1fastsedan]

Updates

 

[1fastsedan]

Header mock up, when they were built originally they were too long and the wrong angle! But my dad made it work. We are going to machine the flange so that we can correct the angle and get the header centered in the hole.

 

[1fastsedan]

Rob Ettinger texted us some old race pics from back in the day. Him and my dad had similar gel schemed Schiada's. Some classic ski racing in Parker.

We are waiting on final for the gatorstep. Trans and all lines are completed. Seat bases mounted. Just some wiring and we are ready for break in.

 

[1fastsedan]

Waiting on revision from Gatorstep. New steering wheel should ship any day now. Wire up gauges and run shift/throttle cables. Test fire and check for leaks.

 

[AK723]

Similar colors to mine, looks good

 

[skifaster]

Similar colors to mine, looks good

I was wondering who bought the A4 boat. Looks great with the new upholstery.

 

[1fastsedan]

Got the name, numbers and CF numbers re applied. Gator went in pretty easy. End of this week she will be off for a new cover.

 

[SoCalZero]

Looks awesome! Who did your name and numbers?

 

[1fastsedan]

Looks awesome! Who did your name and numbers?

We found a local guy down the street in Old Town Orange. They call him "Harpoon". His instagram is the_harpoon.

 

[jstnoc]

This is looking great! Do you have any photos of your breather catch can?

 

[lenmann]

This is looking great! Do you have any photos of your breather catch can?

Kinda looks like one of these from Vibrant. I've been looking for one and this might just fit the bill. Summit sells them so returns are easy if I don't like it.

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[1fastsedan]

Lenman is correct. I ordered it on Amazon for my Howard and never used it, so we installed it on this project. I used a Joes Racing 4" bottle clamp along with a Jegs cylinder head coil mount bracket. I had to drill and tap the bracket to fit the clamp. There was def some tweaking involved. Once fitted I had the whole cylinder and clamp powdered as one piece. Then I re-installed the top vent. I get you some close ups when the weather permits.

 

[1fastsedan]

Catch can for jstnoc

 

[jstnoc]

Catch can for jstnoc

Catch can for jstnoc

Looks Nice and should keep the oil better than valve cover breathers! Thanks for posting pics

 

[1fastsedan]

New cover

 

[sintax]

New cover

nice! looks good, who made that?

 

[1fastsedan]

nice! looks good, who made that?

His name is Jeff out of Orange. He built our first cover over 30 yrs ago! My dad just happened to swing by his shop as he was closing up to retire. Now he only does covers on the side out of his garage. Its where I'll take my Howard to have a new cover built.

 

[1fastsedan]

With the new bases in places we had to come up with a different way of running the shift cable. I had my buddy machine a groove into the mounting plate Matt made for us.

All of the wiring is complete and we are ready to test fire.

 

[1fastsedan]

Forgot these pics.

 

[1fastsedan]

Firing her up Wednesday.