Cowtownhound
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Hello all, thankful to find this site, I'm totally new to the jet drive world and have many questions. I have an aluminum Lowe Roughneck 2070 center console with factory sponsons and a Mercury 115 Pro XS that I'm going to replace with the Mercury 150 Pro XS with a dealer installed jet drive lower unit. I have it set up for flounder gigging that added about 200 pounds to the back of the boat over the outboard and maybe 50-75 pounds of lights and aluminum handrails to the front. I'm going to use a jack plate with a 4" set back so I'll be enlarging the existing sponsons and fabricating a 4" sponson box to attach to the transom for a hull extension to makeup for the jack plate set back. I'm looking for any knowledge and advice on what I'm trying to accomplice. One of many questions is how close can the sponsons be to the sides of the pump intake?