yep, you can find buckeye lake off of 1-70 east of Columbus, OH, I'll pick you up at the dock:

Your gonna clear that lake in about three minutes



Are there any bars or restaurants on that lake? Looks like a nice little place to chill. They used to do some kinda hot boat weekend down there on one of these websites, might'a been screan and fly. I always wanted to drag a batboat down there for fun.

that will be my answer to rising fuel prices this summer. I few short bursts on buckeye ocean and I'll be good

Man o man.....some great pictures...some beautiful work............

today I turned my attention to the cooling system, finishing up mounting the water block and attaching the four new check valves that Glass Dave helped me find on Ebay!
now its time to get the AN fittings and hoses to connect the water block to the sea strainer and thru hull pickups. I've got that Jeg's store nearby that I can buy nylon braided hose and polished fittings

David,

Skater rigged my 32’ with three 300x motors with three AN16 lines from the manifold to the motors and two AN20 lines from the two lower water pickups to the manifold. Skater also used check valves. My lower water pickups doen’t start working till about 90mph, but I have plenty of water pressure above 100mph (15psi) or more. I don’t use sea strainers, I typically run in clean water. (Lake Michigan) I don’t know about the Merc 2.5’s but Peter was really surprised how much water the 300x motors require. I wouldn’t use any smaller lines. Hope this helps.

Carl

Thanks Carl, I talked to Pete today and he told me to eliminate the sea strainers with my set up. I appreciate your input.
I was wondering if you could post some pictures of your water pickups from inside the bilge, water block and where the hoses connect to the outboards. (also what size fittings threaded directly into the engine with AN 16 hoses)

the last time that I rigged a merc 2.5 with thru hull water pickups, I had to cut off half of the threads on the AN 12 fitting that goes into the adapter plate under the powerhead. I had to do this because of clearance issues with attaching the 90 degree AN fitting that is attached to the water hose. Is there any other way to go about this problem?
Excuse the sideways view

David,

Fragola makes a 3/4" pipe to an16 90 degree fitting part#frg482215-bl that I used. I had to lift the powerhead 2" off the midsection to put them on, but they look great. pm me your e-mail and I will send you a lot of picts. You can post them, I just have trouble uploading picts.

Carl

Thanks Carl, your set up looks great, I would like to NOT have to raise powerheads to hook up water feeds. Any ideas out there?