Freestyle Under the Hood

[jMike]

Trying to figure out how much water was getting splashed around under the hood after a backflip attempt as the ski would blubber for a bit when righted. If you watch the strap on the flashlight you can see when the ski is upside down. The ski has a RRP Pole with two breather tubes and at the time of the video was the only source of air. Check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5cJWoK6K_o&feature=youtu.be

 

[NewName]

Hm, where does it come from? From the hood all alone?

 

[motozachl]

Definetly getting water injestion there with a very good test. Grab some stock FA

 

[jMike]

The stock FA are on order. I also added some breathers to the hood for relief air to not have an airlock situation if the pole is under water. We also wrapped a strip of turf around the FA up to the hood which helped quite a bit in diverting the splash up.. Biggest thing to help seem'd to be plato-to-plating the flips lol..

Interesting thing I though of with the RRP pole is once the tubes are underwater they fill up, and once the pole is righted the water pulled in dumps directly into the engine bay. With a pole like the Xmetals any water in the pole dumps out the bottom and not all through the intake tube..

 

[Bobert540]

The stock FA are on order. I also added some breathers to the hood for relief air to not have an airlock situation if the pole is under water. We also wrapped a strip of turf around the FA up to the hood which helped quite a bit in diverting the splash up.. Biggest thing to help seem'd to be plato-to-plating the flips lol..

Interesting thing I though of with the RRP pole is once the tubes are underwater they fill up, and once the pole is righted the water pulled in dumps directly into the engine bay. With a pole like the Xmetals any water in the pole dumps out the bottom and not all through the intake tube..

huh, never thought of it that way. So it you are using the RRP pole and thats the only breather your boat has, it seems they act as scuppers when the boat is upside down. kind of scary to think about it that way.