After market verado cowls
 

With everyone buying all these center consoles with Verados how many people would be interested in a true after market cowl built out of carbon fiber. A product with a name and reputation behind it like HNR. It would save you at least 15-30lbs depending on if you just do the top, or sides also, and designed to increase air flow to raise horse power. This doesn't sound like much but when you do it to 3 or 4 of them it can add up. I don't know if the center console people would be even interested in this type of performance upgrade but trying to get some feed back because most Verados are on center consoles.

Why not offer a cf bolt on air scoop to increase air flo

The CF layup would look way cool . What does the OEM cowl weight? 30lb savings seems like a optimistic goal for how much weight you could remove even using CF.

NHR has a joint kit with DBR for motors like the 2.5 and 300 pro XS. To get the power out put of the kit you must use one of their Cowls. If you could do something like that you could prob sell tons. I think with replacing upper and lower cowls you could save that amount. Imagine all the guys that have twins to quads who could save weight and gain power.

There might be "that guy" that cares about 60 pounds on a center console, but for the most part we aren't worried about weight. I know my fresh water and fuel tanks are usually full, extra anchor, cases of refreshments, 6 to 20 people on board, etc, etc. There are easier and cheaper ways to shave weight. Now if they looked cool and the engines could breath better, that might be a different story.

look on screamanfly forums. the HNR cowls have people going crazy. they did not believe that you could save that much weight on a cowl but he has one happy customer after another. maybe with 4 of them save the weight of one person on the boat. and gain some hp? Is this something you center console guys would be interested in? would a little more hp make a difference to you on your CC? I think it would work well.

They would make a regular cowl look dull and boring and air flow would be the main idea of the build. making them look cool would be worked around that.

The cool thing would be is if you could make a verado cowl look awesome and gain power. Customizing to match custom boats would be a major upgrade. Carbon with custom graphics with some carbon showing.

I think it would be HUGE if you could save weight and improve air flow especially with the people that are starting to put the 400R's on the smaller cats where weight is an issue especially if you are saving 25#'s a side.

maybe some of the guys with after market cowls on their 28' cats would have some input of how they work. or tunnel boats