Home made Surf Pipe?

[jc]

Just curious if anyone out there has made their own Surf Pipe? I understand the cost of fabrication and materials for the FAE Stainless pipes etc, but it doesn't seem that complicated. Thinking ABS pipe would work, just not sure on the tapered exhaust portion.
Would be on a 17 year old boat and looking for another project and to save some cash.
Pictures, insight, do's and don'ts would be helpful...

[Wake.BC]

http://www.themalibucrew.com/index.p...-rider/&page=1


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[jc]

Thanks for that, but looking to build an ABS plastic version for a single exhaust Nautique.
Should be a little simpler.

[DW SD]

I think it is very possible to use black ABS pipe for this. I just installed this FAE yesterday and fabbed my own mounting fixture and welded to the pipe vs. using their erector style mount.

You will want an ABS outlet pipe close to 4" in OD.
It could neck down to 3" without performance issues. 45s and 90s are available. I'd head to Home Depot with some calipers to measure and see what you can find. Also, I think I've read about techniques to weld those back together vs just slip joints. Google search would reveal.

Unlike the stainless pipe you can't narrow the width down for the piece in the water. Although maybe you could heat with a hairdryer or heat gun and squeeze the last piece in the water to minimize change to the wake.




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[jtryon]

Here's mine, cost maybe $20 in material and worked great all last Summer




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[DW SD]

Here's mine, cost maybe $20 in material and worked great all last Summer




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GREAT job! Thats a nice option for the price. How are the connections made?

[sbarton]

Ditto to dw's question; how did you make the connections to the stock exhaust?

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[scottb7]

the rubber hose to boat with hose clamp makes perfect sense...but how did you attach the rubber hose to to black pvc? regular pvc cement work or some other glue?

[jtryon]

the rubber hose to boat with hose clamp makes perfect sense...but how did you attach the rubber hose to to black pvc? regular pvc cement work or some other glue?

it took some trial and error because it fell off the first couple times out. the rubber hose to the stock plastic outlet is hose clamped, and the abs elbows and such have pvc cement holding them together. that wasn't enough alone to hold it under throttle though, so i added stainless screws to the exit side of the rubber hose (nuts and bolts added from the inside). there was still some twisting of the downpipe (outward) after a couple rides so i added two stainless screws to each elbow on the exit side to keep that from happening. the original downpipe came out after a couple weeks, so i replaced it and added two stainless screws where the downpipe mates to the 2:1 exit elbow and haven't had a problem since. in addition to that and not pictured is some galvanized wire that i wrapped around the pipe on each side and then around the fixed wake plate adjusters to make sure it wouldn't come off. no issues since doing that. also not pictured is that once i replaced that downpipe, i cut the exit at an angle outward much like the traditional FAE.

hope that helps!

[max 1.6]

I also did an homemade version.


Took some trial and error to get it to work great.
Tapered section is necessary to get a proper wake withtout washing.
Lenght, taper and width is critical.