First Rips of the Season 400hp on the BEST Looking Boat Ever SLEEKCRAFT SUNDAY #20

Have you ever wondered about extremely high performance boats on the water? In this episode, I'll show you how to summerize my 1978 Sleekcraft Aristocrat, begin work on converting a ski boat trailer to fit a twin tunnel hull, and some exciting new announcements for the channel!
The success of my SST project was pretty unexpected; viewers like you helped pay for the fiberglass resin & supplies needed to finish this project! As a thank you, I'll be doing a new video every sunday; Sleekcraft Sundays!
00:00 Intro
01:55 Summerize, when the ripping's easy
03:48 First Rips
04:49 Sarah Drives
06:32 Trailer Trash
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Stay tuned for more updates every Sunday!
#sleekcraftsunday #summerize #tunnelhull

[@MasterWitchDoctor]

you can thank Al Stoker (Stoker Sport Tunnel) for designing and building that boat. He ended Hydrostreams reign as the fastest boats in Mod VP with that hull. I had one beat my Viking with one until I put a 200 Black max on it and before working on the engine it went 10 mph faster. Ive seen SSts with Merc Mod VPs running over 100 mph. Theyre stable and very fast compared to a Hydrostream and wont chine walk. Nice boat by the way, I love watching the vid.

[@kyledierick4766]

Sarah was hilarious in this video lmao!!! C25 mix is what you’ll want for steel. 25%co2 75%argon. I also forgot a hose when I got my boat out a couple weeks back lol. Glad to see the sleek craft episodes starting up again. Enjoyed all the sled stuff over the winter too. Great channel

[@ADDvanced]

Yeah, I know the gas is wrong but the friggin welding stores close at 5pm, what is up with those bankers hours? How do they expect anyone with a real job to ever get there in time? Will try to get some different gas this week.

[@kyledierick4766]

I hear ya man. Also if your welder supports a spool gun and you ever wanted to weld aluminum the pure argon will work for that.

[@tractioncontroloff9796]

Total fun haver channel! Love it!

[@ADDvanced]

life is short, get weird and have fun!

[@wesreed3221]

Great vid and nice channel growth Rob! Excited for Merc Mondays!!

[@ADDvanced]

ITS HAPPENING.GIF

[@scottstokes3920]

Videos are still getting better and better. Ya'll are fun to watch. Just picked up my own welder. I'll be sure to use the Helen Keller comment when describing my welds. Lol.

[@ADDvanced]

I'm going to try to get some CO25 this week, I hear my gas is the main source of my problems

[@Luuxs]

finally a nice boat video again !! :D

[@ADDvanced]

More tomorrow!

[@jimferry3509]

You have to love the sound of a two stroke

[@ADDvanced]

Some people hate it... but they sound incredible at full tilt.

[@merlinwag]

Discovered your channel last night. Enjoyed your sleek craft sundays, can’t wait for more content! Great job!

[@ADDvanced]

New episode drops tomorrow

[@boneheadfish7893]

You’re not alone with forgetting a hose clamp, I did the same thing this last week when getting our boat ready for its first launch of this year.

[@ADDvanced]

It's always something. That's why its important to run it on land :D

[@1DirtbikeBoy]

Me too lol, i got about 20 min out and wondered why my bilge pump was on 😅

[@ryancollins2483]

Excited to see the blackmax stuff! I have an '89 XR4 on my Baker Tunnel, its been a great motor. Just an FYI, I don't know if your 2.4 200 has the 2 yellow wire stator and water cooled rectifier, but if it does then I strongly suggest replacing that with the 40 amp 4 yellow wire stator with the (2) individual 20 amp regulator/rectifiers. Those water cooled regulator/rectifiers are kind of a ticking time bomb. They are known to fail and catch fire, and the only way to put it out is to disconnect the battery completely before blasting it with an extinguisher. Besides that, if yours is in working condition you can remove it and sell it on ebay for $300+ which will easily pay for the swap, not to mention the 2 wire stator is worth around $200 as well. Here are the part numbers for the stator and rectifiers I'm suggesting: stator- 174-9610k 2 regulator- 194-5279

[@ADDvanced]

THANK YOU. This is exactly the type of tech I want to learn about, and document. There is no one stop shop for information on this V6 and there really should be.

[@ryancollins2483]

No problem, I’ll give you another one too. Your motor probably has an idle timing/max spark advance module. It’s a black box usually mounted above the port cylinder head with 3 wires. It’s got red/white, white/black, and black for ground. Take that piece of garbage off and set your max rpm timing to 21-23* cranking. That’ll equate to 16-18* running. What that box does is allegedly 2 things: 1) Bump your timing up 4* at idle when you shift into gear to help stop it from dying, which with a correct idle rpm setting is a non issue. 2) This is the reason they throw these away. It is supposed to retard your timing at wide open throttle by up to 4* to maintain a 5700 rpm redline. HOWEVER, these boxes often fail and throw erroneous signals ADVANCING your timing at WOT and shooting a piston out the side of your block. It’s a known fact that these 2.4/2.5 blackmax motors can easily run well into the 6500 rpm range with the oil injection deleted and premixed 40:1, an electric fuel pump (I can give you info on that too), and the right propeller. There is no reason for the timing module at all. None of the performance MERC’s have them, so a lot of people suspect it was an attempt to keep 150/175/200 motors from making the actual power they were capable of.

[@publicdefender77]

Awesome video man!!! Love that sleekcraft. Can't wait for Merc Monday.

[@ADDvanced]

Me either.

[@bullet225ho]

Yes!!!! it's boating time! The I/O is a looker. When you get the 2.4 wrung out and skint......ohhh yeah. it will be a runner. I'm pretty sure that Sarah has only been exposed to modded mercs.. Her BWAAAAPPP off of idle has strong hints of lighter flywheel, high compression and open exhaust.

[@ADDvanced]

lmao I was coaching her noises :D

[@stevekneebone3802]

Can’t beat the sound of a V8 for sure.

[@ADDvanced]

The rumble.... sounds sooooooo good.

[@kentyler966]

Purdy boat sonny.

[@ADDvanced]

Thank you sir! Sleeks might not be the fastest but their styling and lines are far ahead of all the other jet/muscle boats of that era.

[@RojoRed1975]

You two are awesome

[@ADDvanced]

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

[@scottmordauntflyingspanner2216]

That boat is so retro cool! Looking forward to the merc motor content. Keep it up!

[@ADDvanced]

Will do, thanks for the support!

[@Kettenhund75]

75/25 for MIG welding. Straight argon is for TIG welding. Also, make sure you are not using gas AND flux core wire. Check to make sure you have a good ground. If there is rust where your ground clamp is, grind or sand it off. Clean metal at the ground point. ~100-120 amps for .250" steel. Adjust wire speed and wire stick out so it sounds like sizzling bacon. Pretty sure your issue was gas.

[@ADDvanced]

I sucked even w the right gas. Good penetration tho so whatever.

[@Kettenhund75]

@@ADDvanced As long as it's structurally sound, haters gonna hate. At least you're doing it yourself instead of paying someone else. I'm digging that Lil boat yall got.

[@ADDvanced]

@@Kettenhund75 which one lol

[@Kettenhund75]

@@ADDvanced The outboard with the 150 Black Max. I need to get me one of those. Those engines sound so cool!

[@alwaysbroke1976]

Before you weld on the trailer, use some old plate steel to test on, then you'll get the feel for the welder and familiar with the settings.

[@ADDvanced]

Probably would have been a better idea

[@georgeveneziano2754]

Beautiful boat dirty moter

[@ADDvanced]

Yeah, haven't cleaned it in a while. Should do that sometime. :P

[@huntershepard5764]

I feel like Sarah’s ‘oh shit’ moment is going to be pretty great when the SST gets on pad and does a little chine walking.

[@ADDvanced]

Bikini moment for sure

[@kencraig6526]

The cool factor of big block has no equal.

[@ADDvanced]

That's a small block :P

[@kencraig6526]

Lol opps valve cover looked fat hey at 62 I'm lucky I see the keyboard

[@ADDvanced]

@@kencraig6526 the gigantic stellings marine headers hide most of it :D

[@michaelheinsler5441]

Ok first rule in mig welding clean metal no painted surfaces and yes you need argon and co2 mix. More videos on the outboards!!!!

[@ADDvanced]

I did fresh grinds on both the trailer and the uprights, and even with new gas I still had issues. Had good penetration tho, so just cleaned it up and went for it.

[@carllafrance5510]

Other tan they say it is bad luck to launch on a Friday Pretty cool !

[@ADDvanced]

Never heard of that one, I love try ing to get off early Friday and beat the crowds on the weekends.

[@carllafrance5510]

@@ADDvanced That is great ! Beating the crowd! Since your boat has already been in the water before you are probably ok It goes back hundreds of years Ships launched on a Friday usually meets some kind of demise ? run aground get involved in a collision sink blow up or burn ! After watching your video that is a pretty slick rig you have It runs right along ! Thumbs up ! Being a Diyer is inspiring ! I have a 16 ft alunimum homebuild with a 351 Windsor It goes 49 kts I'm on lake Erie and I can only go fast when it is flat Otherwise it spends most of the time in the air at the risk of getting teeth nocked out ! I am a boat builder I built my boat from the scrap bin at the shop. We build boats for the military coast guard border security rcnp opp and the public We also built the boat that found Franklin's shipwreck in the artic ( That's another story) Have a great day!

[@ADDvanced]

@@carllafrance5510 Shoot a video of it and upload it! You don't need to get fancy with editing, but it sounds cool and I'm sure lots of people would love to see it! Sounds really fun, aluminum boats don't weigh anything, and their strength is pretty nuts as well. You just cannot get the forms required for really high speed easily from aluminum without a ton of fab work. Check out some of my other vids when you get a chance, I'm restoring an 86 SST and going as hard as I possibly can on it; full composite build, coosa, honeycomb panels, woven/biax/cloth layers, full knee braces, etc. Hoping for 80mph+ out of it, but I'm overbuilding it so you'll be able to hang almost anything on it. Cheers!

[@carllafrance5510]

@@ADDvanced do you have an email address I could send you some pictures ? We built the boat that found Franklin's shipwreck for parks canada to check on the health ofthe shipwrecks in the fathom five under water park in tobermory to see if they were still safe for divers It was there for 2years then they took it to Ottawa it sat in the parking lot for a couple of years a homeless person moved on and lived on it for a year they didn't know he was there then they took it to Quebec put it on an exploration vessel and took it to the artic it ended up on the icebreaker sir Wilfred Laurie The day they found Franklin's shipwreck for over100 years the inuit told them were it was but nobody listens to them They were going to search a channel 20imilesfrom there over night ithe ice pushed them down the channel they flew up the channel with a helicopter seen the channel was clogged But it was clear where the inuit said it was since they went going anywhere any way somebody suggested maby they should take a look ? They figured it was a waste of time so they flipped a coin to see if they should go or not ? It was right there they found it within 40 minutes The expedition leader was on an expedition ship 75 miles away ithey flew him in by helicopter it was kept hush hush till harper got up there and got brownie points for the discovery The inuit told them where the other ship was also they even had pictures of it with people standing beside the masts sticking out of the ice from the 1950s All they had to do was go over there Rumor has it when Franklin left the inuit went on board and started cleaning it off They found a dead guy so the put everything back and never went back I'm getting old now I am not sure how to up load pictures I? lost my computing skills somewhere between windows 95 and windows 98 Have a great day !

[@stephenbarron3711]

Ark welders are better for first timers with 5/³² size rod at a 60-13 or. 60-11 ,, 13 is a colder burning rod good for welding over cracks ... Now 60-11 is a hotter burning rod for good penetration / with these 2 rods you can weld almost any tipped of metal ......

[@ADDvanced]

Too late now! Got new gas today!

[@fauxque5057]

Was your Sleekcraft always set up as an out drive? I had a 1975 18' Sleekcraft that was set up as a jet drive. 455 Olds engine, Berkley jet, with a jetavator. Where your throttle is, mine was the reverse gate. The throttle was a hot foot. I loved that boat. I almost sank it when I forgot to reconnect the water lines to the exhaust logs after the winter

[@ADDvanced]

Yup, I have the dealer pricing catalogs from this year and Mercruiser 260 was the most expensive option, more than the OB or Jet or V drive.

[@ChrisMeirose]

The female version of Dark Helmet.

[@ADDvanced]

May the schwartz be with you

[@leftynelsoncom]

75% argon 25% co2 on mild steel.......flux core outside so you don't have to worry with the wind.when you think it's right bump up amp's a little new welders all ways welding to cold.

[@ADDvanced]

Thank you for the tips! Getting some real gas this week.

[@johnnyp4886]

looking for the link to merc monday?

[@ADDvanced]

Didn't finish editing in time, so next week should be even cooler.

[@georgeveneziano2754]

Grind and wire wheel your welds

[@ADDvanced]

I ground both sides. It felt like impurities in the metal itself? Idk

[@e10klein66]

Welding is going slow… if you think your going to slow, slow down some more!

[@sebastiend.5335]

"Welcome back boys"?! Are you assuming my gender?!?!?! Looool

[@ADDvanced]

Boys girls thems whatever if you like boats you’re alright w me

[@sebastiend.5335]

@@ADDvanced Exactly. Was just kidding...