Old school engineering for you. We saw the same thing back in the day. We thought that water swirling was not going in the direction we wanted it to go. We ended up sharpening and cupping the stator vanes with a dye grinder and lake tested it, back and forth until the water was straight. Took a hell of a lot of work, little if any gain since we did not have GPS or accelerometer then to test, but we accomplished what we set out to do.