wake box

dylbag · Posted: May 21, 2008 12:00 pm Post subject: wake box

hi guys i was wondering if any of you guys had any info on the wake box
and exactly how thick the water must be within it??

it would be really kwl if some one could help..

DaleFish · Posted: May 21, 2008 12:09 pm Post subject:

Why? is ur dad thinking of making one? If he is that would be soooo sick

dylbag · Posted: May 21, 2008 12:14 pm Post subject:

yea he's really really into it.. Cool

DaleFish · Posted: May 21, 2008 12:16 pm Post subject:

devotid · Frontside 180 Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 473 City: saginaw

id say at least 3-6 inches deep? with a ton of water in a neighboring pool or pond. maybe? i know when you fall at the flowrider, you get pretty broke off cause it so shallow. haha

ive ridden a couple different flowriders, but no wakebox's and that what i remember the depth there was. the videos of the wakebox dont look much deeper than 3-5" inches. imo

ive brainstormed on this before.

i thought about taking an old car (like a 4 banger) and hook the axel up to a monster pump but there mad expensive. (the pumps) the ones for the flowriders are like $67,000 each or some ish. there has to be some large volume pumps out there though for cheaper. off of something?

or what about an old jet ski / boat and anchored down so it just shoots a thin film or water across a riding area? again next to a pond. imagine those tub things that they test outboard motors in at boat service shops. something like that but heavily modified.

or set a solid quarter pipe at the bottom of a huge water fall and redirect the water so you can hold a rope and rock it like the satelyte secret lab....... hhhmmmnnnnn....

I hope your ideas are better than mine cause i just read what i wrote and was like ppppppffffffffttt. what an idiot..... hahahaha

anyways good luck and keep us posted.

dylbag · Posted: May 21, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject:

i think the jet skii idea would maby be possible..

but my dad was thniking that if u took a out board boat motor and used it to pump water into a manifold too displace it correctly... maby it could work.. Birthday

Cyclone268 · Posted: May 21, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject:

Jet ski sounds great but the anchor for it would have to be soooo strong

mojo · Posted: May 21, 2008 2:05 pm Post subject:

get one of those never ending pools people use for swimming in place. the jet might work in a different style pool you build

uidzero · Kickflip Joined: 01 Jun 2005 Posts: 3839 City: Casselberry

the best you could get of out an outboard/jet would be a very thin sheet of water. lol skimbox Very Happy

kornhouse · Posted: May 21, 2008 2:25 pm Post subject:

you could just have the jetski running into a brick wall and have pipes on the sides to keep it straight.

JeffKnox · Posted: May 21, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject:

believe me i was designing one a while back... the water needed to push this thing is rediculus... the wake boxes over in europe are like 200 000 bucks... i did alot of work on this thing before figuring out that it just wasnt costly even to make a ghetto version of it... here are the flow rate conversions

a friend of mine was thinking of using a couple of fire engine pumps that he got off ebay... i dont think he ever got it working though

Lk.APK BuTTa · Pop Shuvit Joined: 21 Nov 2006 Posts: 218 City: Apopka

high pressure pumps are $$$ and the electricity to run it $$$

Jim.Branton · Guest

wait so hwo expensive are the pups they use for the flow rider also i hav the hook up on jet ski's would that motor and pump work

EJazzle · Posted: May 22, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject:

JeffKnox, damn you smart UF people. lol

but that is a really example of the MASSIVE amount of water you need!!

i feel smarter after reading that...

how much less water would you use of you estimated about 3 inches of water instead of 5?