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Everyone meet my brother Daren here AKA DERV. Hes the one in the background in most the photos...Holding a Bud Light. :beer: Thats his "Shiny" project in the background. He will be starting his own topic on that sometime in the future! Dont hijack my topic BRO!!!

My least favorite part...making the jet intake. Its a work in progress. I started out making this then decided the engine needs to be mounted 1st so I can line the pump up with the output shaft.

Now its time to test fit the Honda. By the end of the night i removed more useless exhaust and save a bunch more room in the boat. Now ill have just as much room as I had with the outboard. Turn around fishing is a must for river fishing!!!

Now the tunnel is gone and its back to a reguar flat bottom. I know the welds arent the prettiest but i had some hellacious gaps to fill!!!And I ground them all smooth.

Now I decided to cut the tunnel all the way out besides the very back section. Now the engine is as low as it will ever be.

The way I have the engine sitting in there the intake won't even start till after the transom. The jet pump is going to stick out about 2.5 feet from the transom. It can be heavily braced so it doesn't get damaged when I hit stuff. Which I know I will.

Jet intake will be all aluminum. Difficult to build but also easy to transfer into a different boat. This is more like a test platform before I buy a brand new 1752.

I decided that the engine was going to be way too high so again i cut more of the tunnel out. Ever evolving design!!

This was my original plans for keeping the tunnel. Everything above the sharpie line must go. From the back u can see it wasnt a very even cut lol :roll:. I forgot how my tunnel wasnt bent exactly straight. And the idea evolved from there.

old prop tunnel

More looking and thinking :wink:

The calm b4 the cutting storm!!

Sorry guys!! I havent been updating on here like I should. Progress has been made in baby steps though. I downsized my tunnel to 1 1/2" tall. Got a start on my jet intake. What a tedious and time consuming part to build!! I didnt do jack squat over the winter on it...negative 20 degrees will...

I personally think its going to work with of course some tweaking and tuning. What inspires me is SJX jet boats. They have a inboard jet tunnel and it must work or they wouldn't build it. Im sure it took a lot of development to make it work. Im willing to spend the time and make mine work as...

Thanks for your input. I was only going to keep a couple inches of tunnel depth just to keep my intake from sucking up debris so easily. I have already made some initial cuts in the tunnel for what I was thinking. I do have some pics and will post them later and see what you think.

My brother is building a 2013 R1 rocket powered jon boat. He went with a Yamaha FX 155mm pump. Yamaha guys sait it can take up to 300hp!!!

Just tossing around the idea of leaving my tunnel in the boat and putting the jet intake on the tunnel. I know this will make me have to mount the engine higher in the boat and jet pump higher on the transom. Any thoughts on this idea guys. I know the advantage will be sucking up less rocks and...

Hello fellow captains!! I'm Brandon. I live in northwest Iowa. I live literally 7 blocks from the river access ramp folfrom the Big Sioux River. Its a shallow Sandy river full of all kinds of fish. We mostly hunt for big cats. I love to do nothing but get on the river with my friends and their...

Only pics I have of the boat on my new phone. I will be updating with more later.