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Posted: Jan. 31 2005,3:22 pm

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Has any one had good results with place diverter droop snoot/ride plate bolt on? Thinkin about buying one from Rexmarine. :beer

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Posted: Jan. 31 2005,4:50 pm

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What are you putting it on?? Details, man, details.

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Posted: Jan. 31 2005,6:46 pm

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Yes we need details, details and more details!..

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Posted: Jan. 31 2005,8:53 pm

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What if I put one on my 19ft open bow commander?

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,5:01 am

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Quote (tunamaster @ Jan. 31 2005,9:53 pm)

What if I put one on my 19ft open bow commander?

I don't think it's worth the money for what you'll get out of it!.. :stupid

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big ern

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,6:31 am

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Currently have a 18.5 kachina 425 hp BBC, berkeley 12JG, w/ jetovater, was told I need rideplate for the droop would gain 3-5 mph, i would also probably gain 5mph w/place diverter control instead of the berk, the reverse gate has drag at the angle it is at.

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,7:11 am

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I have a buddy with the same boat and he runs a droop on it. If you know someone who would let you try it out, that's the way to go.

As far as picking up 5 mph because of the drag created by the reverse bucket, I wouldn't hold my breath for that one.

Good luck and keep us posted.

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,7:12 am

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Quote (tunamaster @ Jan. 31 2005,9:53 pm)

What if I put one on my 19ft open bow commander?

Didn't we cover this extensively in another thread? :stupid

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,7:19 am

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Quote (tunamaster @ Jan. 31 2005,9:53 pm)

What if I put one on my 19ft open bow commander?

Didn't we cover this extensively in another thread? Ã‚Â :stupid

That's what I thought. :laugh

Ã‚Â When I saw your's and Art's initial posts, I thought it was the other thread until I saw the post dates. :rotflmao

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big ern

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,8:34 am

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I was worried that if I just ran a droop w/o ride plate, the handling characteristics would be bad with stock berk jetovater, I spoke with Bergeron marine in mesa, he says run a droop w/o rideplate and place diverter.

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,9:16 am

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That's what I run on my boat and I have no problems. Bergeron set it up back in the day. Before the guy that I bought it from owned it. Back then it had a blown 396 in it and was running in the 90 mph range.

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Posted: Feb. 01 2005,10:15 am

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When it's all said and done the 1000.00 i'm gonna spend on parts (doing the work myself), is this thing gonna perform for the money? Kachinas are fast hulls anyway.

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Posted: Feb. 02 2005,5:21 am

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When it's all said and done the 1000.00 i'm gonna spend on parts (doing the work myself), is this thing gonna perform for the money? Kachinas are fast hulls anyway.

Well I can't speak from experience but a few years ago a neighbor had a Katchina and he did the same thing(he paid to get it done)he said he did gain but he was disapointed in how much he got for what he spent. I drove it after he did it and it seemed to work ok but I didn't drive it before so I had nothing to compare it to!. :stupid

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Posted: Feb. 02 2005,10:20 am

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Damn Art, you drove a squirt boat??? I'm going to have to write that down in my History of the World book.

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Posted: Feb. 03 2005,5:13 am

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Quote (jordanpaulk @ Feb. 02 2005,11:20 am)

Damn Art, you drove a squirt boat??? Ã‚Â I'm going to have to write that down in my History of the World book. Ã‚Â

Jordy, back in the 80's I raced with the NJBA and back then it was 90% squirts and I had quite a few friends that had them and I drove a lot of them from 60mph ski boats to 110mph flexy flyers and I also ran some circles in a squirt and for some reason them things just never did a damn thing for me!. :laugh

Wish I had a dollar for everytime I got harrassed to convert over the years!..

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