eastern express (32 skater) now has a new look
 

just got done painting few days ago on the last color still have more to do skater logos eastern express sticker took the 650 supercharged motors out now putting the rebuilt 540s that came with the boat in completely redid them. had to buy new block for the one it had 3 cracks in it but all back together and making around 800hp painting trailer, new cover, new carpet, painting drives black, relocating batteries, adding sound system adding the logo and stickers then throw some more colors hear and there on it

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let me know what you think and any ideas are always good to hear

also where can i get the skater logos or stickers i can have the eastern express sticker made from a guy up the street from me i just want a real skater sticker big one on the side and little ones in the cockpit

http://www.appearanceproductsinc.net is the supplier of Skater's logos.. They can usually get it out to you pretty quick. They're the official supplier for Skater's clothes and vinyl I believe.

I can make you skater decals in any size or colors that you want too....

Ryan made all of our engine and boat decals. Always excellent.

Ryan can make anything you need.

how do i go about getting some ? do you do it from your home or do you have a shop with a web site

We have a shop, lol...... same one since 1995, actually hoping to up size soon.....


www.kineticAnimation.com

or

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kinet...2377828?ref=hl

Ryan is the best. He can do a rendering off your picture if tell him what you want. He did the logo on the side of my boat and the deck.
Also good to support a fellow skater brother!
Prices are great too!

Boat looks good! keep up the pics.

Great to see the old girl is in good hands. :ernaehrung004:

Interesting paint color combo

now thats being polite, make it look like the orignal, it will be time-less and worthy of the name and all the records that it still holds, anything else should not carry joe bresciami /eastern express name

TRUE,, I don't think Joe would have painted it & raced it this way, but it's good some one has taking a interest in her. One thing about paint it's easy to change. :party-smiley-004:

i just wanted bright colors and something simple i did not have a bunch of money to throw in to paint as im in the process of completely reduing a house and rebuilt the 540s it came with

Wow, A lot of nice work there. Did you inspect the fuel tanks?

yea the tanks need attention just drained all the gas lask week , going to let dry good and re resin them i think they make a resin that fuel wont wear it down and cause it to bubble or blister if im not mistaking

No disrespect but its a bit more complicated than that to fix the tanks.

Here is how she looked when we first raced her in OPT P class, she looked good just white. Sometimes simple is better.

Had my tanks done at Skater in 2008 (before eathanol).They cut the floor out, remove the old tank lid, remove the baffles, grind down the tanks to bare glass. Re glass with Derrikane resin in the glass,re glass the entire tanks, install new baffles, new tank lid, backer plate....... I am sure tons of other stuff I forgot. .....messy as hell......hell of a job......And mine had No other damage. ......some of boats that have sat for a while and the eathanol made it past the tanks, into the balsa core..... get new bottoms:poopoo:
Hopefully yours is in good shape......good luck....I would at Least call Skater and ask for their advise, on proper method.

mine went back to Douglas MI too. I just so happen to smell gas one day and found it pooled up in the port stern sponsen just behind the tank..went ahead and drained both tanks and pulled the cover to find this. :mad::mad::mad:THANK YOU ETHANOL!!!! I went to see it while they were repairing...like he said it's not all that simple a fix.:party-smiley-004:

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When I took the back seat out and took the fuel sending unit out I only had a few like 3 or 4 small prices like in your second pic My tanks don't have that smooth white look to them it's straight fiberglass and resin

Back in the day we only used 115 & 110 race fuel never pump gas where you could get ethanol type fuels. That may have helped save the fuel tanks ????

also depends on what the tank is lined with... Vinyl Ester is not suppose to decay but the epoxy tanks do. Call Peter at Douglas with HIN and he can tell you what your tanks were originally lined with.

Yep, Skater did mine last winter..... I know im good now.

What's the HIN?? Is that like the haul #

Look at the back right corner the numbers are the hin.
Brett

Hull Identification Number AKA Hull #

Ok that's what I thought but the boat don't have them anymore they were never on there from when I got it ???? Is there any hill numbers any where else??

Lola like someone painted over them or something it's smooths as a baby's bottom there