Reviving our Hovercraft with a 2X Horsepower Engine Swap! (It Rips) 

Now you just need more pitch on the props to make use of that power :)

You both might not think it but this here hovercraft is definitely a great thing to have. They come in all sizes.. and this one in particular is absolutely a go cart without wheels. The faded paint is not faded paint .. !!!! It's actually in the fiberglass . A cut and polish will bring it back to shiny red . It's gel coat. It's mixed in with the fiber glass. What y'all need to realize is that to turn y'all need to have thrust pumping through those rudder's. Also to stop quick just throttle off. When you throttle off that is the brakes... It'll drop down straight away and stop really quick. Y'all need to sit down on the motor cycle type seat and when cornering lean over just like a motorcycle... So just get out there and don't be afraid to open it up.. because that's when you will have thrust pumping through to turn and hover... They do slide sideways when turning at speed but once you realize that you have to lean just like a motorcycle you will notice that the lean will lift up the outside edge and the inside edge your leaning towards will grip the ground or water . They race these things and personally I love them alot !!!! I don't own one but I know how to operate one.. just like riding a motorcycle !!! If you lean forward the nose will slow it down and the air will all go out the back of the skirt.. please PLEASE don't give up on it.. please just do some research,,ie look for hovercraft races on the W.W.W and y'all see WHY I love them so much... Remember gel coat will come up like new with a cut and polish.. I think it is "a great " advertising platform for CARS AND CAMERAS... It's got plenty of power now so you can add lighting etc .. take it out on a big open area and open it up !!!! Ride it like a motorcycle.. an hour or two you will realize just how fantastic this is.. thank you sincerely for all your time and effort to bring us this exciting content.. I truly love CARS AND CAMERAS . 100%. 10/10 in my book 👍 ❤❤❤

Time to put a little more pitch in the blades to push more air

Sad to see Chuck gone but he has a family to support, hopefully he has time to visit, love his humor

Was that Charles lurking in the background trying to hide from the camera?!😂😂

You’ve all came along way since dad’s garage!!! LETS GO!!!

More power means you need to add blade pitch

Pretty cool leaf blower 😂

Enter and exit the water at full throttle for max lift. Makes transitions a whole lot smoother.

Add two more rudders at the edges of the fan shroud - total of four, and the full hight of the fan.

*Cleetus Mcfarland heavy breathing intensifies*

That would be a blast out on a frozen lake

I was pretty impressed by Ike driving in the tight area of the yard! It’s not easy! ❤

John is so scared all the time Lol. Issac is like no problem it’s fun lol

“Ike, it that your biggest fan…..sorry I had to” 😂 ~ Charles

Awesome move Ike! But I want to tell you as a friend and native Buffalonian, and connoisseur of 2 strokes and snowmobiles, that you may want to use that oiler. They offer far superior oiling to the crank which would be HIGHLY beneficial to long periods wot operation. Ontop of that it is jetted for straight gas not premix you are leaning out the mixture! Not good for 2 smokers!! If you dont want to use the oiler because of yhe extra room it will take, at least put bigger jets in it so.its not running lean wide open! Love you guys!!

I can only imagine what the neighbors, or anyone driving down that road, think! Great stuff. Good luck Charles.

I know NOTHING about hovercraft. Now I know nothing plus something. As Always, May God Bless you and yours! 😇

I can’t be the only one who’s absolutely loving the hovercraft and seeing you guys work on it !!!

Isaac, Now when your property floods again, you can look forward to going for a rip!😅

When I saw Charles sneaking around in the background behind the hovercraft at 8 minutes and 30 seconds I almost yelled out "hey Charles"!! right through my phone screen. 😂 It was weird. You guys need to put a big Mr Hankey underneath the scat logo😂

That thing is cool as a fan!

The ULTIMATE leaf blower!!

That snippet of Isaac at the end is pretty funny. Love it.

Charles at the end 😂

Experiment with Prop pitch

Busco Beach for sure, it would be fun to put a long YANKUM kinetic recovery rope (maybe 2 or 3 together) on a center post and do fast circles. It would be fun to try

Now let’s see you getting it looking as good as it runs!!! Great job guys. Can’t wait to see what’s next!

Worlds most powerful leaf blower!

Blowing leaves off the driveways is gonna be a BLAST now! Hahaha

How thoughtful of the airboat to turn the camera for you to face you 16:25

Now we gotta see a hot lap around the track!

yall are the main reason i buy old stuff to rebuilt u enjoy it way more when u work your ass off

The boys have conquered the woods, the 1/4 mile and can now add the sea to that list!

Watch videos of how pros race these things, lots of shifting your weight far to the side to steer tighter. Gotta send it around the Grand Prix of course. Quality stuff as always

You need more pitch and surface area on the fan blades, plus larger surface area on both rudder blades, and then put some ballast in the bow to help her run more level, meaning you won`t be dragging the stern through the water. She rode more level on the hard land surface, but steerage was poor. Definitely try more surface area on the rudder blades. Maybe attach some extension strips down the rear edges of the rudder blades?. Great vid guys, good to see a couple of good old boys having so much fun.

Amazing upgrade project yall! Great work as always

Imagine how much more performance you'd have once you remove all the leaves off the intake grate!

🤣🤣🤣 Its a ride-able Leaf Blower !!! Some hot laps on the Grand Pre would be cool to see in that thing. This is awesome!!

I put a VW engine in one of these. It's like driving a giant air hockey puck! Kudos!!! What a blast!

Seeing the directional stability it's a good job hover cars never became a reality, looks massive fun though😊.

Congratz! Great work, gentlemen!

This brings a whole new meaning to off reading for you guys. When I was a kid they would bring in this dude with a hover craft every summer. Thing was the place they brought it was this waiting pool so there wasn't much to see him do other than do a couple dough nuts. Either way that was cool and they haven't done that event in over a decade. Hover crafts has to make a comeback. Please help make that happen!!!

If you took the leafs off the fan guard, I think it go better

That's awsome! Thanks again guys👌👍👍

Have a river trip. I've had hovercraft, with rotax engines, a 377 and 503 twin carb. Great fun! Went down the Upper Bann river in Northern Ireland from Portadown to Lough Neagh. I'm not sure if you were over the hump while on the water. The craft creates lots of spray and does not go very fast if it's below hump and still acts as a displacement craft rather than an air cushion vehicle. There are look up tables for the fan so that you can have the engine loaded correctly for the number of blades and the pitch angle of the blades. Enjoyed your 2 videos. Thanks

I've missed these style videos alot, just you and Ike working on stuff. Resubbed

Cutting the pipe shorter would shift the powerband higher in the rpm range which would only add more power if the porting can support it. ****One thing to take in to consideration is if you plug the injection pump and mix your oil in the gas then the engine will run LEANER as a result because some of what should have been gas is now oil.**** A lean 2 stroke is a fine line, either a bat out of hell or a melted pile.

Cars, Cameras and HOVERCRAFTS!!

Huge pickup, you got it!

Sorry guys I have never done Facebook and I won't. But,,you can do all sorts of great stuff with the hoover craft 👏.. ✌️👍🇬🇧

17:53 what a great toy for your guy's hard work over the years! Please stay safe! 🙏 love yall

This looks like so much fun!

I just seen Charles in the shadows ducking and bucking lol. I’m happy to see him. Best luck to you fellas in life. Thank you for the great content.

I love the new video format, content etc. but I really missed the build footage of the engine mounting, etc. I would watch the longer video but I know I can't speak for all others. Long time subscriber. Rock on!

So cool, built a hovercraft when i was young and wanted one again ever since. Did seem down on power for the size of engine but as someone said props may need adjusting and i was taught to think of it kinda like a motorcycle you have to use power and lean to get it to turn. Either way have lots of fun and be safe :)

Let’s see its Grand Prix lap time!

15:47 he’s going to Drift City 😂 16:50 I didn’t even know you could drift that hard on a hovercraft 🤣

Y’all just bought a fun version of a giant leaf blower 🤣 that’s just awesome lol

Nice work, looks like fun!

19:58 this really shows the true power of this thing

That'd be great in the winter rescuing folks on or through thin ice. Good work!

Hot lap!

That is one awesome leaf blower.

Probably go faster if the screen wasn't full of leaves too,looks so fun

Aweee, look at our Ike being a rainbow on the water people!! How much more can you ask for out of a video? lol These boys need me to come on the channel for some good times and laughs until the night ends with friends!

Great job guys 👍👍

I have around 200 hours flying behind a 503 Dual Carb on a flightstar UL Great power there

Wouldn't it be cool with a 2 liter engine sitting in there great job you did lads

Wow I did not think you guys would get it up and running... Looks cool for sure

Very cool indeed Isaac. I knew that if you got the hp boost you would get it moving. Awesome job.

Wrap the exhaust, put more pitch in the blades and have some fun

This is how you have fun while leaf blowing in the fall time😂

Moterbike Mike here, DUDES DO NOT RIDE ON YOUR KNEES you'll go over the bars very easy. Stay seated and lean accordingly to the situation. Ride safe brothers

Nice job guys

You guys should vinyl wrap it with a “cars and cameras” theme 😊

great stuff guys thanks

GREAT JOB GUY'S.

2am and this Old Man from Washington NC finally getting a chance to watch with my coffee ☕. Always great video and laughing. Love you guys 🛵🧔💝💝💝

I have 3 of these scats (scat 2's) and they are by far my most favorite toys.

Awesome. You know when you have a gap like that, take a old rod from a arc (stick) welder if you have some and knock the flux off it. place it in the gap and weld across it with the mig to bridge the gap. Just a thought, cool content thank you!

Those skidoo/Rotax snowmobile fan cooled engines are great, they are reliable and powerful for what they are, and the colder it is the more power they make they like it around 10°f...I got a 2003 ski doo 380 fan cooled and I can move along at 55mph fine (I've hit 70 before) and it gets up top speed quick

I knew a guy in Green Bay Wisconsin who had a Scat Dealership and Brought 2 out to the river not far from my house. When they were Brand New they ran Exactly like that one does NOW! That old engine was Plane wore out! I hope you guys did no do too much damage when you ran it with NO Aircleaners on it's maiden Voyage.....

Wow! That's one hell of a serious leaf blower! It sounds like she needs a little bit more pitch to them blades now that you have more than enough HP to turn the fan? Good luck guys.

Hey guys keep this in mind for the mini mayhem events please, it would be so cool to get this kind of footage. can we get drone footage this year of everyone takin off for group rides? it has got to look like somethin straight out of mad max lol

Out-takes are definitively a plus and for those who follow, a chuckle will be heard. DVD:)

That's how it should have been to start . Great job boys .

There has been one of these bouncing around of facebook/craigslist for 10 years (in south florida). With a rotax 635cc engine. I can't imagine how many hands it has been in. I've seen it everywhere from $1000 to free!

That'll come in handy next Fall 🍂.

I'm old enough to have ridden those new. Leaning is the key, like a sportbike in a canyon..

Wow that thing looks fun. I wonder if larger rudders in back would make it steer better? Be interesting to see what they did with the version 2. Now the thing just needs a powerwash and paint job. Such an awesome toy. The new motor fit like a glove and really did the trick!

You guys are killing it with this alternative type content. Plan way ahead with the hovercraft driving characterfishsticks. 😅

That's gonna be a blast at busco beach

It makes a good leaf catcher 😮

Take it to the drag strip!

In the 90s there were huge hovercrafts going from France to UK and back as regular charter capable bringing 400 people and 50 cars.

Blade angle might still help.

It needs a hot lap around the Grand Prix

Excellent video John , Issac you guys did super on this small hovercraft vechile and engine help lots more to ! Yes have races with and be so cool !

I love your guys vids man been here since day 1