Pickups - Thru-hull or Transom mount???
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Chris
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Pickups - Thru-hull or Transom mount???
I have the motor out of my 28' Nordic Heat for some upgrades, and need to install a water pickup for my innercooler.
The boat is a v-bottom with a single step, and a notched transom. It also has a small pad that extends about 6 ft forward in a v-pattern, with the widest part of the pad being about 8 inches wide at the rear. I will not be putting the pickup in the notch area so as to not disturb water flow to the prop. I would like to install the pickup outside the prop diameter area for the same reason... unless I go thru hull, and mount it about 2 ft forward of the notch, on the pad or to the side of it.
It needs to be AN-12, and will have a seperate sea-strainer.
Do you think going thru the hull, or doing an adjustable transom mount pickup would be faster??
Thanks in advance,
Chris
The boat is a v-bottom with a single step, and a notched transom. It also has a small pad that extends about 6 ft forward in a v-pattern, with the widest part of the pad being about 8 inches wide at the rear. I will not be putting the pickup in the notch area so as to not disturb water flow to the prop. I would like to install the pickup outside the prop diameter area for the same reason... unless I go thru hull, and mount it about 2 ft forward of the notch, on the pad or to the side of it.
It needs to be AN-12, and will have a seperate sea-strainer.
Do you think going thru the hull, or doing an adjustable transom mount pickup would be faster??
Thanks in advance,
Chris
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X2 on this question! I have a 25' sxt cat, and the intercooler
is teed into the sea water outlet, which to me seems like way
too much water press.- especially at idle- shoots out the discharge port(-8) about 5'. was going to put a water press
relief valve(left over jetboat part) and another dump, but the
pickup idea sounds better!
is teed into the sea water outlet, which to me seems like way
too much water press.- especially at idle- shoots out the discharge port(-8) about 5'. was going to put a water press
relief valve(left over jetboat part) and another dump, but the
pickup idea sounds better!