3 litre alian hood conversion

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got a 3 liter with a alian hood done today.took a stock lower cut it down,set a alian hood base on it and started chopping and glassing,and yes its still a two piece. i think its pretty cool plus lost a few pounds.i`ll get couple more pics up when computer acts right

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hope to have in paint by the end of week i`ll change pics as it get completed

[Stitch King]

Did you Glass a flange on the old lowers for the Alien to bolt up to? Might want to do a final layer with epoxy instead of poly/vinyl ester. Those old lowers are a BMC/Compression Molded thermoset. For cracks Poly/vinyl ester works ok but for structural work/repairs I've experienced failures to bond to that material even when roughed up with 36 grit. Epoxy's and urethanes bond well to it however.

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Did you Glass a flange on the old lowers for the Alien to bolt up to?
yeah , basicly i cut about 3"of the stock lowers.then i set the pan on it with a little putty to hold it to work.next i cut out the inside of the alian pan tabbed it in with glass on the inside.on the outside i blended the two together with a ahair stran putty ,faired it out . now i`ll put a 1/2 oz mat or something on the out side to keep from cracking fair that and paint . so far about 6 hrs into it,thats with kids saying come here dad and the phone ringing.oh yeah made the pan about 1/2"taller to clear to of fly wheel cover or just take it off. oh yah thanks for the help earlier on hoods got this one for my uncle and well i adapted to my needs

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should have base in paint sat, pics on sunday ,any input, or is it pretty stupid what i`m doin

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shot the black on tonight will post pics friday of finish base

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well here it is hope to have hood in paint by next weekend and all on boat. any thoughts?

[afr]

looks good :cheers: :thumbsup:
did you see mine

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looks good :cheers: :thumbsup:
did you see mine
yeah thats great looking piece too:cheers:

[afr]

we both finished about the same time
lol

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we both finished about the same time
lol
i still have to paint hood and put on latches, cut wire opening and put in trim switch in cowl

[afr]

i got to cut my breather holes and install the bunges and i can go to the water

[shibby1485]

nice job fellas!! wish i had seen this! altho, ven if i did, i dont have the patience or know-how to glass up the conversion.

i just stripped my 3 liter hood cowl and lowers and had them repainted and dropping it off tomorrow for some graphics.

mine ios a 3.0l 250EFI Offshore... the graphics were stupid boring and slow looking :D

can't beat the looks of an alien cowl tho, wish it was alot easier to get one onto mine otherwise i would have done that in a heartbeat

[Fish]

i still have to paint hood and put on latches, cut wire opening and put in trim switch in cowl


that is really good looking Image21:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

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nice job fellas!! wish i had seen this! altho, ven if i did, i dont have the patience or know-how to glass up the conversion.

i just stripped my 3 liter hood cowl and lowers and had them repainted and dropping it off tomorrow for some graphics.

mine ios a 3.0l 250EFI Offshore... the graphics were stupid boring and slow looking :D

can't beat the looks of an alien cowl tho, wish it was alot easier to get one onto mine otherwise i would have done that in a heartbeattell you what you get the pan and hood and find an extra 3 litre pan i`ll do the pan for yeah check with graynester see if he can still get that hood and pan i`ll help a brother out.its not that bad once you figure it out

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that is really good looking Image21:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
thanks i`m tickled with it.

[bigboy]

Looks cool:thumbsup:

Is that a 225 opti?

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Looks cool:thumbsup:

Is that a 225 opti?no its a 3 litre efi with a mad efi and 300hp tuner

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well here is the finished hood minus latches.plus have to rig entire boat from winter over haul paint ,gauges,carpet,seats,pretty much everything new

[150aintenuff]

I wish they would have done that from the factory... that looks the best Ive ever seen that engine/cowl look... the 300X looks good but that looks better IMO..

[Kartracer]

Looks very nice!

Great job.

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entire motor and new gauges

[Velocity72]

Great job on the cowl!:thumbsup:

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few more pics of the work being done hope to have complete in next two weeks.

[BallisticBullet]

wow.....:eek: thats hot lookin.... :thumbsup:

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so i`m building another one, this one is for a 2.5 and is acually one of the alien x hoods that have been made a little smaller, i widened mine back out 3/4" and will do the same two piece bottom like the three litre. this is a slow project this time may be spring when its done

[evanz]

great job! Question where did you get the 3.0 alien cowl, I want to replace my 300x cowl.