V-Drive Rigging

[Toolman]

Helping a customer machine a bunch of custom v- drive components for his set up. For example, the four link rail mounts were originally designed as a typical right angle block. We got crazy and stretched the block and leaned it towards the V-Drive giving it a modern swoopy look.

 

[Blow It Up]

Sweet

 

[lenmann]

That is very cool, nice work.

Which v-drive is that? It looks different than any of the other billet versions I have seen.

What kind of machining capabilities do you have? I am going to be be rigging my RC this winter and am starting to line up resources.

 

[bagged97taco]

Bad ass work. What boat is this for?

 

[Toolman]

That is very cool, nice work.

Which v-drive is that? It looks different than any of the other billet versions I have seen.

What kind of machining capabilities do you have? I am going to be be rigging my RC this winter and am starting to line up resources.

Talk to Stan at Schiada about the v-drive, power steering, and general rigging. He might steer you back to me, but he is the man!

 

[Toolman]

Bad ass work. What boat is this for?

Thank you. Owner wants to remain anonymous for now. There’s a lot more machine work coming on this boat.

 

[Toolman]

Getting back on the Hydro, the owner says it’s time for motor plate blocks. I have my own style of motor plate blocks, but he commented that they kind of look small compared to the size of the engine of the boat. So I started going through all my pictures of hydros with the gigantic aluminum hemi’s with a supercharger on top, and the bell housing with the clutch in it and I have to admit, yes, they do look a little small for the job. Kind of out of a scale you might say. So the rails on this boat are 3“ x 3“ x 3/8“ thick. We decided to go with a block that covers the whole top of the rail. We also decided to make the block more of a right angle shape instead of a square shape, height versus length,

and that way it would accommodate double bolting. I machine them the same way I do my small motor plate blocks except I had to build a bigger fixture to hold these larger ones. I am machining all sides except the bottom at one time. I find this the easiest way to make these parts compared to using a vise and a sine bar or angle plates. My grandfather told me “let the machine do the work”. Looking down on the fixture after machining, you can see the obtuse on the left and the acute on the right. We will only be using four blocks to hold the motor in. The double sandwiching of the motor plates with eight blocks won’t be necessary.

 

[sintax]

Beautiful work bud!