Drive Showers
 

Looking to add drive showers to the Bravo 1's on my 292. What do you all recommend?

I'm sure you will get many options and opinions on this question. Personally I am running the Rex Marine showers with the dual pick-ups. You can check out their website for some pictures. They look great and work great as well.

i have been looking for a while...no product on the market fits my needs. i wanted the simreks but contacted the company and sent a picture of my setup...he said they would have to be custom made to wrap around the latham ext steering brackets...at 210 a piece i think ill do without for now.

i dont want to have to drill my cav plates. anyone have any ideas? sorry for the thread jack.

to the OP look into latham showers, rex marine, simrek, and wicked marine. imco also makes some similar to latham.

just be careful what you buy yourself into...like i mentioned some require cav plate drilling and others flat out dont fit with ext steering hardware.

I went with Latham since the hydraulic steering plates on top of the drive already had the threaded hole for the shower fitting. You do have to drill through the cavitation plate to mount the pick-up. They provide a template to make sure you drill it in the proper location. Not that tough, just measure twice and drill once!:drink: I think the Latham showers have a clean look and do a good job.

Anything you buy will work fine behind small blocks,but you do need them.I got a set from wicked marine you do have to drill the cavitation plate but I did not think it was a big deal.

my only issue with the latham's is that their is only one pick-up...and the water pick-up seems kind of high.

You can try Simrek, www.driveshower.com

The nice thing with Simrek is you can do a group buy and save some coin... With a 5+ order they're only 139.00 ea. I know a lot of people say they are the best drive shower. I'd be interested in a group buy for the Simrek if you or anyone else is!

Not an issue at all. Latham specifies in their instructions to install the pick-up on the side of the cavitation plate where the prop blades are on the up-swing. So port side for standard rotation (clockwise) and starboard side for counter rotation. This really pumps a LOT of water up the pick-up. I hung off the back while on plane and the drives are getting SOAKED.

Also, since the pick-up is up and out of the way and on the 'high pressure' side of the prop, there is no chance of creating a cavitation problem, which I have read about in some cases.

Even at 210 they are worth every penny.