Boat Mods...What have you done

so we're coming to the end of the season and i'm looking for some new ideas. already have a stereo overhaul in mind but looking for other good things...lets see it

After market ballast to go with that pumpkin just playin thats a cool boat, but seriously after market ballast, tint, transom lights, leds on the tower speakers. theres some for ya.

perhaps some led's. do a set of nvs deviants.tint your windows.

Fresh Air Exhaust (FAE)

heres whats been done so far...orange lights in the gauges, leds in the cup holders, huge ballast, sub under dash, white/gray gator grip all over, and chrome thru hole fittings...im goin with jl audio 10w7 w/ jl 1000/1 amp and thinking leds under the platform...whats everyone else doing/done

get these but in orange

sick!

tint the windows. but not too dark. it would look dope if you did a medium shade

you can always look into a boat wrap

Get Transom lights instead of LED'ing the platform. I did quite a bit of lighting this year in addition to transom lights from Abyss I did docking lights and replaced the normal nav light with a pop up, also various LED's throughout the interior.

i think it would be pretty sweet to have leds along the rub rail facing down.... not sure you would do this or if it could be done but seeing that from the distance at night would be awesome.

a nice glow around your boat.

I built a carpeted plywood playpen for the bow area in my boat since all that's ever up there is a 750lb sack. It also makes it easier picking peeps up from the bow area and it keeps the sack about 3 inches lower in the boat. I also integrated this sack into the switches with the fantastic quick disconnects that fly high sells. Now I flip 4 switches and 4 sacks are filling.

I also took apart the front seat to add a bit more "lean" to it. Yes, I drive like I am sitting in a lazy boy (except for dubs). I also lifted the seat just an inch or so.

My next project is an integrated fiberglass icechest/seat for behind the driver since I dont have wraparound seating.

I am also playing with modding the interior for more "rear facing seats similar to the natiques. Since my boat has a pylon right in front of the back two seats I may try and build a "back rest, that attaches to the pylon with spectra so people can sit in those seats and look at the rider with their legs over the motor cover.

Other ideas are: Adding risers to the swim platform so its not so deep in the water when its sacked out. Welding my monster tower at the seams to reduce the sway. Adding an auto flag thats homemade (cheap). Tinting windows. Adding a jump seat for the walk through.

If you ride in the cooler months do you have a good wind block for the bow? What about a shower and heater?

Basically if it bugs me I make a mental note and try to fix it.

Modify your trailer so your boat sits at a 45 degree angle.
Like this...



You might spear other cars with your tower, but it would look awesome.

I've done-
Swivel Driver's seat
Heater with custom long hot tubes
Custom ballast(Need to add a bow bag)
Built a cupholder/tray for the driver like the newer VLX's
Removed table installed sub box/cupholders
There has been more but can't remember.............
Bow tonneau(works great to store the kids.)

So here's what i've done since getting our '07 LSV new in April;

1) Stolz Bow Roller, so much nicer!
2) New Custom Reg Numbers, matches the Mobius graphics.
3) Flip-up Bow Navlight, clean and out of the way.
4) Added a transom remote, nice to have.
5) Seadek platform pad, no more black stuff on vinyl.
6) Airboom Wakeboard quick-disconnect Racks
7) New Roswell Mirror Arm. Roswell replaced the old broken Roswell arm with a '08 one n/c!
8) Covers for the Tower box & Racks.
9) Rod Saver Auto Ratchet transom straps...Sweet!
10) Dual Batteries w/ full re-wire.
11) Blue Sea E-series battery switch & SI Series ACR
12) Xantrex 1000w Power Inverter
13) Dotit LED Lights in all compartments
14) 750 lb. Fly High Extreme sac on port side for sufing.
15) Relocated the fire extinguisher to drivers footrest area.
16) Stainless Thru-hull fittings.
17) Gunwale step pads.

Still want PP and i want to rework the stereo/amps to my liking. Wife wants a new bimini from Tower Biminis. Oh yeah, transom lights too.

Done:
- Added transom LEDs
- Added two Comptech foil racks
- Moved previous owner's Skylon Batracks to the front tower legs.
- Custom registration numbers
- Relocated the stereo remote to the passenger side.
- Added MP3 input & 12v outlet in passenger side glovebox.
- Added WS420

Want to do:
- Build a custom swimstep with Traxx deck on top. Get rid of the teak.
- Lengthen the heater hoses.
- Simplify winterization process with easily opened valves, FlushPro, etc.
- Setup two tower mirrors
- Strip/modify the Malibu & Fakesetter graphics

Do some cool custom graffiti on your gel like the older X Star graphic

The best mod for an older x-30 is the newer rudder. Turns amazing now.

I would like to relocate the driver seat further back and away from side so it could swivel. I need to raise it up so I'm not staring at the windshield frame also.

Satellite radio is working out well.

Tower mounted flag.

Razzman, I never knew of seadeck. I think I'll see if they make pads for mastercraft. The black marks on my vinyl drive me insane.

fuel fill upgrade, pop up bow light and bezel.

Brett, Seadek will make anything you can think of as far as design, for a price of course. Check out the blogspot link on the frontpage to see what they've done.

Check them out at http://www.seadek.com, or call and talk to Chuck Yates at 321.632.4466

Here's mine, it's help up great so far, boards and all.

^^^^that looks sick man!!!!^^^^

I'll break it down:

1) Replaced tower amp with JBL PX300.4
2) Added second JBL GTI sub
3) rewired tower to 4 channel with 16 guage
4) Add 2 more board racks
5) added air boom tower mount mirror
6) replaced polk db 650's with ARC Components
7) replaced interiors amp with Alpine pdx 100.4
8) put in Blue seas ACR took it out and replaced with Newmar iso/combiner
9) Added two more batteries
10) put in Blue Seas 100 amp breaker
11) 2 new street wires distribution blocks
12) 4 bullet hollow point 770's
13) Fusion light bar
14) Innovative lighting SS Docking lights
15) LED's in cup holders and throughout boat
16) Abyss transom lights s600b (getting 2 more)
17) POP up bow light
18) gator grip on transom
19) replaced trailer buddy (to many pops and loading the boat)

I can't believe I still have $chit to do...

Andy, What kind of Fuel Filler and Cap is that? It looks sick!

there are a few different variations and lots of bezels
http://www.cpperformance.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=224

http://www.cpperformance.com/SearchResult.aspx?CategoryID=225

here it is with the screws in

Done this year:

- added two Bulletlines racks
- replaced both batteries
- installed a pair of Wetsounds Pro80s and ran new speaker wire through the tower
- installed additional amp for the Pro80s and added in an MTX crossover (has separate volume knobs for each output - tower, in-boat, and sub)
- installed Titan tower light
- moved batteries from port v-drive locker to port passenger storage area
- rewired a few things and put in new fuse blocks/distribution blocks for battery move
- upgraded custom ballast from 300s to 550s in rear (made possible by battery move)

Favorite upgrade:

- convinced 75% of my friends to go buy their own damn boards so they'd quit borrowing mine

Still need to do:

- sand and oil the teak swimstep
- get windshield frame repainted (anyone know how to go about this?)
- reupholster a seat that ripped this summer

08 Xstar with 8.1 litre.

Z5 rigid cargo bimini

stereo upgrade

prop upgrade

fly high ballast system with seperate fill and empty for both bow sacks (for surfing)

two extra board racks below the factory ones (eight board capacity)

in-line raw-water strainer

remote oil-filter relocator kit (still need to install)

wakeboard transome protector

wakesurfing transome protector

tower braces (still need to install)

bow filler cushion

three-point heater hoses

hot shower

took carpet out and use only fiberglass floor

live weather radar

sirius and xm radio (mainly for college and nfl)

billett aluminum speaker grills all the way around including tower

13" tv to play back video of riding

heated driver seat

transome remote

bow ladder

anchor (more important than you'd think)

air-horn

whistle

two large, fabric covered, bumpers for tie up

lots of tow rope (we've towed three boats in this summer)

matching domed letters

suction-cup mounted soap-buddy

twelve suction-cup mounted pocket buddies for guests' cell-phones, keys, sun-glasses. etc.

suction-cup mounted trash sack

extra prop with padded case and prop puller/tools

fleece blankets when you have a cold-natured guest in july in mississippi (sheesh)

cosmetics dept (women's beauty supplies and various and sundry lotions): and no, not the kind you buy in men's restrooms--double sheesh

ole miss rebels windsock

What's the difference between a wakeboard and wakesurf transom protector?

I redid my heater hot tubes in our '06 wakesetter. Now I have 3 pullouts that reach everywhere I need.

"whistle"....Do you have Ecstasy dance parties on your boat or something?

forgot to add the link to the heater tube redo http://www.dizzyg.net/wordpress/?p=579#content

the wakeboard transome protector is a suction-cup mounted strip of padded fabric that runs along the top of the platform across the width of the transome.

the wakesurf transome protector is the same material that sticks on to the rear corner of transome and goes all the way up to the rub rail and over to the center of the grab-bar. just a bigger, taller, wider piece of the padded fabric to protect the entire side of the transome.

oh yeah, i forgot to add that i have two mirrors, one cantilevered off of each front tower leg. gives the driver two angles of the rider, or one for the platform area and one for the rider at rope's end.

also, i haven't been to any ecstasy partys. my days on that type scene ended with withdrawal from the pharmaceutical market of the Roer 626's.

Star... was it easy to take out the carpet and just have fiberglass? Is the carpet secured with glue and do you have any pics before/after?

1 more Q - where did you get the suction trash can, that makes too much sense not to have.

brett, the carpet in my 08 xstar is snap in. however, i never had the snaps mounted into the floor. i have never used the carpet. it is still new and rolled up in the corner of the boat shed. i had the carpet installed in my 08 xstar and once i realized how nice it is to just wipe down the floor at the end of the day i told my dealer not to install the carpet snaps in my 08 xstar after trading up. the snaps screwed in the floor of my 05 xstar always stubbed my toes when walking around in the cabin. no carpet or naps screwed in the floor for me ever again.

i bought the transome protectors, the pocket buddies, the soap buddies and the trash sack from HBP Innovations, formerly known as HBP Products.

www.hbpinnovations.com

owners name is patrick cone

1-877-998-8185

tell him stephen in mississippi referred you. he is very pleasant and easy to deal with and his products are reasonably priced and high quality, plus they are of high quality and look good. straight-up guy for doing business.