SoCal Jet Boats
Tech Talk => Jet Pumps => Topic started by: iloveitloud on May 20, 2012, 07:36:31 PM
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Just wondering how much downward angle is enough, or too much? I have a JE pump with Trim A Just, and it has been modified by grinding the steering knuckle, and the reverse bucket as much as possible to throw the biggest roostertail possible. However, with the cables being long enough to get the nozzle up as high as it will go, it also gives it more downward travel as well. I have not put any kind of angle meter on it, but it aims way down from shooting straight out the back. I am just wondering how others set up the "low" angle and if to much is a bad thing.
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Just wondering how much downward angle is enough, or too much? I have a JE pump with Trim A Just, and it has been modified by grinding the steering knuckle, and the reverse bucket as much as possible to throw the biggest roostertail possible. However, with the cables being long enough to get the nozzle up as high as it will go, it also gives it more downward travel as well. I have not put any kind of angle meter on it, but it aims way down from shooting straight out the back. I am just wondering how others set up the "low" angle and if to much is a bad thing.
The concern should come in to play when the nozzle is adjusted downward at speed.......IMHO it should be "limited" in the direction of downward travel to where it performs best out of the hole....No lower...
There is a potential for you (or another driver) to bury the nose at say over 40 MPH...Talk about suck. :o
GT
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I guess you "could" possibly bury the nose of the boat, but the Baja 200SS is a pretty big boat, and I "don't think" the pump has enough thrust, or the motor enough power for that to be an issue. I have tried taking off with it all the way down, and at various "more up" angles with a load, and without. Of coares you can have it up to high, but it seems like you would not want it down much more than level when compared to the boat sitting level.