Is it worth installing drive showers on bravo 1s on a 1996 35' lightning with stock 502's?????????

Yup, yup, yup.

Simreks are great.

This is the second boat that I had the Simreks on. The drives never get that white coating that means heat is present. Without them, I also had white appearing on the top of my drives. Well worth the effort and $.

If you still need em we can hook you up with them.. we have several different kinds..

FYI: All of my personal boats run them & we install them on all perfomance boats in our shop.

Jamie / Lakeside 570-639-2628

I run them

even cruisers with stock power need drive showers!......according to Simrek testing the biggest heat builder is long periods of time on plane, even at moderate throttle settings with stock power you get high heat build up with that top gearset being out of the water for extended periods of time

I dont know - looks to me that all of that water being pumped out of those four inch exhaust pipes out the back of the boat do a nice job of cooling the drives without adding the showers, but I could be wrong. Havent seen any white stuff and I run a lot of long distance cruising at around 55.

You would be incorrect, but thats ok. I can understand why you and others may think that..

If you follow someone sometime watch the water coming out of the exhaust when planed off or running off of idle. Your exhaust's water stream will fall a few feet behind the drive..

Any water that may get on it from the exhaust wont helo anyway for a few reasons. The water coming out of the exhaust is not cold, the water that may get on the drives from the exhaust is not consistant & there would not be enough water going on to them to make a difference. The drive shower keeps a constant bath of cool water on the upper housing..


I hope this helps to explain what, why & how.. Jamie / Lakeside

Like 35 (I have the same rig), I have never seen any white buildup on the upper case or anywhere else for that matter. I hate to drill holes and add equipment that is not necessary. Someone ought to market an upper case temp sensor!

If memory serves me correctly, We can get them from livorsi.. Jamie / Lakeside