Water Pickup For Boat
Thanks chinwlker, that gives me an idea of what to do. Think it would work? Our forum needs members like you to contribute to the site in order to survive. Shallow Water Access Travel and fish waters, until now, were unable to be reaches with outboard motors having standard (side water pick-up) gear cases. My initial thought was to use the intake for a wash down hose. Home made low water pickup muffs. Removed water jacket and flushed out all sand. It works gerat and took about 7 hours to do.
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If It Ain't Blown It Sucks! Then those 2 holes were connectedJohn E. 02-12-2006, 04:51 PM #8. To the eye, a really pointy gearcase looks good for high speed, but that is not the case. I mean the fitting that goes into the case. Basically, only Mercury Racing, and Seven Marine make a proper OE gearcase that is designed to surface. The DF300AP also features "Suzuki Precision Control". I was thinking of trying to form some tubing to pick up propwash around the torque tab on the cavitation plate. It got me thinking maybe I should share my own take on this as my solution hasn't shown up yet. You will need to grind on the front edge of the cavitation plate for the fitting. Parabolic design counters adds tail lift from the increase in surface area and greatly enhances boat altitude. 1976 CobraJet Jet Boat - Outboard conversion project. Low water pickup for outboards. The Mercury Racing Sport Master design has changed over the years, and was seen in iterations of the 2. Other Items In This Category. 1977 HydroStream Vulture - Worlds longest ongoing project.
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Five inlets create less chance of stoppage than anything now on the market. Walking a fine line, and enjoying the view. The nut wouldn't come off of mine and now it's open circuit. Suggestions Copyright Need help? High aspect ratio eliminates blow out and propeller burn at the highest possible speed. As far as the screen question, do what you want but.... A few years ago I was running a 50 merc without the lower unit screen In the deep clear water of Lake of the Woods, Ontario. Darris told me how they tested this in real time, by literally blunting the nose of a pointy gearcase by cutting off the tip, and rounding it out. Install low water pickup outboard motor. I used a aluminum bit in my dyegrinder to fit it as close as I could. I still have it jump around about 5 PSi (down to appx 18 PSI) when going WOT over lake chop but the head temp is >. Performance Features.
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For lower units such Mercury Racing/Mercury Marine Sportmaster, Torque Master, and other aftermarket "race" nose cones -- this is common practice. Do any of you guys put new screens back in there or just run it open? Tuning Performance Lower Unit Plug Kit. I guess the water behind the prop would be too aerated. 77viper wrote:Ya Rick that's how I did mine, but I used polyester and microballoons to fill it up just under the fitting. A pointy tip disrupts the water too much, by creating a sudden change in direction of the water.
Water In Lower Unit Outboard
Last post by msethsmile+. Thanks for the pics guys. Ok, to some of the old school members this will be a repost, but there are enough new members to warrant the effort. Powrehead will have to come off, I just had it off last week for the solid mounts.
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Making more horsepower can be accomplished in many ways. The reason is very similar to why you don't see pointy noses on subsonic aircraft. I have run one season so far and the water pressure was 25 PSI at WOT. The issue is that most center consoles do not use this "race" style lower units. Hydrostream know it all. 5 to 4 inch diameter gear casings feed pipe will need to be added.
I didn't want to go too low, I can always lower it more if I need it. Do you guys have pictures of this done? At this time I used polyester with some cabosil to fill the old pickups, I just taped them off and filled it from the top.