Super Jet Best flame arrestor to buy, if it makes a diffrence at all?

[Sutcavage]

How big of a difference will an aftermarket flame arrestor make? What are some good ones to buy?

 

[BruceSki]

None in the positive direction unless you adjust your pop off/jetting accordingly.

Also helps promote water ingestion if you dont have a great hood seal.

 

[Sutcavage]

Oh okay so the stock one is fine

 

[BruceSki]

A lot of people prefer the stock one because you won't gulp water as much as you do with open style flame arrestors.

 

[Sutcavage]

Yeah that's true. I'm guessing the water-resistant screens that Blowsion sells for there flame arrestors don't work that well?

 

[Mr Bojangles]

They work for awhile, keep stock if you can and put your money somewhere else.

 

[lerott]

Prök for me. You can build protection around carb with turf to prevent water projection. According to me, water resistant screen is bull

 

[ajmps1]

i had an x2 that came with a cone style arrestor, it sucked water like a champ, i found a frogskin in my garage and it helped alot but not like oem

 

[NVJAY775]

Stock for me. Especially with all the water freestyle hulls take on, they just work better.

 

[Crab]

Stock for me. Especially with all the water freestyle hulls take on, they just work better.

I might have to call BS on that one, I found exactly the opposite and only run A/M arrestors now.

 

[NVJAY775]

Not BS at all. Stock fa's pull air more from the center of the hull and take on less splash when the hull gets uprighted from the left side. When the water is calm and the hull is uprighted slowly any fa is fine. But when water is getting splashed around inside the hull, stockers ingest less. Definitely not starting a debate here, just an opinion from my experiences. Just offering up some info for others to digest.

 

[B3IS]

Stock ones are great until you start getting inverted and they will drink alot.

 

[JetJunky]

I run a a/m filter and find the pre-filter helps the engine not die when a bunch of water hits it. The engine bogs down but has never died on my like when I ran without one.

 

[BruceSki]

the bottom line here as has been posted above is: it depends more on your hood seal and air intake setup.


A stock SN hood is going to work terrible compared to a rickter hull with pole breathers only that dumps water to the bottom of the bilge instead of on top of your carbs like a stock hood setup. A poor hood seal will also let a ton of water in.

That said I have run both OEM f/a and open element type and don't notice much of a difference other than pop-off adjustments. That is with the same hood and hood seal though.

 

[CrazyJoesRacing]

for those who do have aftermarket air filters, i made an airbox-style cover that goes over your aftermarket filter adapters and keeps out as much or more water than the stock airbox, a friend tested a prototype on a square nose superjet over summer and it worked great! withstood constant submarines with no water ingestion!

 

[orangefinger]

nice product !! We run AM's and OEM's , the AM's ( TAU CETI ) didnt work well with hoods but without no problems, the OEM's are restrictive to air flow we removed a mesh on each but if upside down the scoop water in, always turn ski back up clockwise to avoid scoopen water.

I want to agree on hoodseal, finding where most of your water comes in hull and how, and adequate scupper/bilge system are KEY....we built a squarenose with a modified Hood and new hoodseal and basically with scupper, dual bilge can be under water numerous times with no real problems, ongoing fountain, no problem...

 

[Sutcavage]

Thanks for the help.

 

[motozachl]

Stock stock stocky stock