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It almost looks like the aluminum thickness of your reinforcement is thicker than the aluminum on the jackplate and was wondering if you had any concerns about the jackplate strength? I am still using the CMC jackplate from when the 300 was on there and noticed it was rated at 350HP. Not sure if that was because there were only 350HP out at that time or if it's truly rated for 350HP and should I be concerned...
I suppose this also raises the question on how jackplates are rated and if the predominate factor for jackplate ratings is HP, weight, or some combination. The weights are similar and therefore torque is probably the factor?
The Merc is going on tomorrow plus a couple of aluminum trim pieces then a full systems check & we're off to the races, yeah
Looks nice. Looks like you will have the plate all the way down and still be above the pad.
Sounds like a plan, plenty of time to have Nick install my Foot Throttle I think there's lots of glass cutting involved & I don't want to get itchyGet her done! We're planning a lock park to Clewiston run on sunday the 24th!
On my previous set up I had the motor mounted to the plate using the bottom holes putting me up about 2" to start & running the jack plate up 4" put me at 0 with the pad, now I'll mount the motor to it's lowest point & I'm thinking I'll be with the jack plate full down a bit more than an inch below the pad, i'll know more later today
Curious,what is the weight of the 400r?
Thing about having the motor mounted low on the plate is you run out of room for tilt....at least with a 300xs and hydrulic steering. When I built my new setback I designed almost too much pre-jack in it. I had enough room to change it to work. My problem was if I didn't use the plate to raise the motor I couldn't trim it all the way up with out interference.
How is it going?
He dropped off the boat at Nick's Creative Marine a few weeks ago to have a Verado Hot Foot installed. They notched out the built in foot rest area of the inner liner to do a custom installation on the hot foot. It turned out awsome!!
I was thinking of notching the inner liner of my BRX for a foot throttle as well. Hope he posts pics!!
Wow, thank you! They did a very nice job of the glass work and I'm glad you had pics because it's not what I was picturing in my head. Won't the foot throttle be too close to the seat that way? From the pics it looks like the foot throttle might have to be mounted back a ways so that the top of it won't hit the vertical kick panel when the pedal is at WOT. Maybe it's just the pics that make it look like that.