intercooler water pickups
 

on a 42 lightning where would be the best place to put water pickups for intercoolers, and would you use the adjustable style, also would you have any pictures, thanks for the help

Here you go...
You adjust valves from the inside

does the hull have relieves or notches in it so the pickup does not extend below the hull,is it possable to get a picture from the underside, thanks again

Some different styles here
http://www.cpperformance.com/c-128-water-pick-ups.aspx

Including the "Ram Horn" style designed specifically for the Fountain.

Brad

WOW!!! Check the price on that triple ram horn:eek:

it does have a gradual notch back to the pickup. Sorry....i dont have pics. I stole that one from Shogren. :drink:

I was looking at that thing until I saw the price. WOWOWOWOWOW

what if you have a single center drain plug ?

Cat are you rerigging your boat or new motors? I thought it was dialed in pretty good

new power w whipples , inj, intercooled, 555 ci 900 + power,or should I say eddie young power, just trying to figure out the best place for pickups, just hoping I could see more pics. thanks for the inquire.

What are you doing with old power? Werent they griffin 700's or something like that

I sold the blowers, carbs , and everything else, eddie is just using the bare blocks thats the only thing pretty much reusable , he believes or should I say knows somebody has been in there and molested them severely. they were not what they were advertised as, meaning the internals, griffin would not have done what they did, even the machine work, sad but true. all marine engines have just been freshend up right ? yea . thats why I go to the man that knows !!!! what he is doing and doing what he ! suggests

does anyone have any closeup pics of there water pickups. thanks

any body have more info on this or pics, thanks again

Im guessing that you do not want to rig the intercooler as Mercury does, off the seawater pump? That is how my 700SCI's are. I have heard that their is no need for water through the intercooler at an idle and may cause fuel mixture problems. But the 700's idle like N/A motors.
Had a pair of 540's AFR Aluminum heads, Crane 741 cams, in a 2000 35 Lightning Bravo drive boat. Had the intercooler plumbed the same way off the seawater pump, and they ran great. No water pressure problems, idle was fine.
Unless you run water pressure gauges on the intercooler, how will you know if the pickup, or intercooler gets plugged? Around where we boat, alot of grass in the water, you would have to run filters, or strainers on the intercooler intake to keep from cloggin up the intercooler or intake. Just some food for thought.
Eddie is a great guy, pick his brain. He has rigged many fast V's, I am sure he would give you some suggestions. If you still want pictures of the pickups the way Fountain set them up let me know, I will crawl under the boat and snap a few. Good luck, let us know how it turns out.

Here is ONE of the pickups on my 09 35, the other is molded into the hull center about 7 ft. forward.
They both feed into one large sea strainer that supplies both motors. This is how Fountain rigged the boat.

I would think that for intercoolers only this one in the rear of boat would supply both coolers fine. As long as the line lengths feeding each cooler were the same (from beyond where you tee them) they would both see the same amount of water pressure.

Anybody have a whipple intercooler intake lying around?
:D

thanks for the help you guys, im just wondering how feeding off of the strainer would work if the strainer is on the suction side ,it would want to pull air instead of water ? I will ask eddie what he thinks when I talk to him again. thanks again. Hey beakboater if it is not to much trouble could you take some picture of the bottom side just before the pickup, I know they put a groove in the hull but I would like to see how deep it is , thanks alot

Hey beak boater, if its not to much trouble could you take some pictures of the bottom around the pickup area, I know they have a groove just in front of the pickup I would like to see just how deep it is. thanks again, also for monitoring flow I would have the intercooler dumps out the right side of the engine compartment above the rub rail.

Look at the Teauge ajustible tube style

Im running one pick up for both whipple innercoolers on my Hustler

thanks for the pics strip, so you just put one on either side of your drain plug as per the template ? those are the style I planned on using, are you using one sand or strainer or two ?.

sure,I started out thinking i was going to need 2 so I made the templets for both,but i am just using one now and it is supplying enough for both innercoolers.

before I was not having a problem it just didnt look like enuff water going thru the seastrainer, being it was only half full of water when running,now it had no air when running with the Teague water pick up,

Also not sure yet if it has hurt mph ,being its scooping more water than the old Imco pickup I was using.

If you can cut the recess in the bottom leading up to the pickup I would do it,

hope this helps
Rob:drink:

thanks again for the info strip, i guess the idea is to keep cool fresh water flowing ! so you are feeding into 1 strainer and then feeding the intercoolers from that .