Quality of installation certainly is a factor - as in most boat equipment. I still find surprising what CJ reports anyway, particularly since he...
If some of the best brands use chillers, are you suggesting that they are all wrong? o_O
It's actually more a matter of not needing the technology at all anymore. How much fuel electronic engines are burning, at any given point in...
Good idea. The odds of one intake flap dropping shut are probably very low, but if the fire system for any reason (possibly just due to a fault)...
Blimey CJ, you must ask your clients to choose better boats and/or to maintain them better, methink! :D
Well, my experience with chillers is just about the opposite compared to to what CJ reports, and much closer if not identical to Pascal's. My boat...
Yup, this is the crux of the matter. Actually I didn't understand up to when everything was fine, because the OP said that he "always had intake...
Which models? I'm not very familiar with Predators, but I've seen chillers even in their smaller Manhattans, already back in the days of the old...
Interesting. All European boats I can think of are either equipped with self contained units, usually up to 40 feet or so, or chiller(s)+fan coils...
By split gas type, do you mean centralized unit(s) with gas compressors for cooling fresh water, which in turn circulates throughout the boat into...
+1. We are all rooting for a very successful seatrial!
I suppose that if you are suggesting it, you know it's effective. But can you explain a bit (or point to some references about that) how it works?...
Good advice, but unless the OP retrofitted some digital tachos, it's very unlikely that the rpm increase could be noticeable, on some 1984...
Sorry for anyone involved with these problems. But this thread did make me smile, at the thought of all those who often fingerpoint at Mutts, as...
Thanks for your feedbacks. I'm very surprised to hear of 2 other boats on top of yours with the damper problem, also because 1100 is very far from...
MYlover, if you don't mind me asking, what ballpark hours had you clocked by the time you had: 1) the torsional damper falling apart? 2) HP pumps...
That's what I've got on my boat. V8/800 engines are the very last of the old school MANs, 100% mechanical. Solid stuff, almost as good as the...
I can't remember to have ever seen rod holders at the bow, either. If that's what they are...? Beautiful boat, anyhow. If someone would have said...
I know that in commercial rating it's an engine that runs forever. But it's about the 825 hp version, which was the most stressed, that I'm aware...
No idea about how that boat performs with 715hp each side, but if the choice is between the two engines in the title, as much as I'm not a VP fan,...
