Drives off, rear engine out, hatch off, POS water pick up removed, extension boxes raised 2 inches, new ram horn water pickup with ramps cut into the bottom next. The port is raised in this pic, starboard next.

If we could just get rid of the antique, heavy, slow, heavy, heavy, barn door flaps this old girl might get to the triple digits.

you. are. over achieving.

As thick as the castings are on those barn doors, might put them in a Mill and put Steps in the tabs
to get rid of the vacuum effect .... LOL


Jon

you laugh but i've been thinking about that for years. even if they where a bunch of small "45" cuts in the tabs. it would have to help

Care to share which staggered Flat Deck he has now?

The pickups were over 4" wide, we tried cutting it down but went to negative pressure in the strainer and temps shot up. We welded a piece back in to get running. There is a third pickup in the middle for force feeding the intercoolers that we are not using. We feed them from the dual stage sea pump. The template has be sent to build the Rams horn pickup. Should be about 10 days.

Back on it, the Teague pickup came in. So it was temp mounted, and the feeder slots marked.

Then the slots were cut, and the pickup trimmed, cut, modified, to create the smallest amount of drag. A little more test fittings, and then gel coat the slots and polish.

Great work ZP . I have one question being the over builder I tend to be , I would have added material to inside of the hull to compensate for the material removed from the exterior . Are you planning to do that ? Or is there enough material it is not a concern.
Rick G.

That's a cool mod, too bad I had mine made fixed.

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