Request for pics on 2001 ballast switches

[Rossterman]

Wiring loom I bought was for 2005 205v and it's set up for reversible pumps. Connections look to be mounting in the ground buss bar and the red positive lug under the dash and no relay box at the back of the boat. Includes circuit breakers and wiring plugs to the pump locations. Was able to find the factory plugs that mate with the harness for the pumps so just need to figure where the main harness route- through the driver side gunnel or down the center. If anyone with the later version ballast has any guidance that would be great!

Thanks
Ross

[swatguy]

FWIW ALL my wires except my center pump run the length of the drivers side up along the back, along the transom, and around to the passenger side to the pumps for my port side bag and my transom wired Clarion Remote.

If you pull your floor up you can run the wires straight through there as well. Its simple. There is a channel that runs directly from where the steering cable, air vent, and all the wires run on the drivers side dash all the way through. Its easy to get a fish tape though or I used a coat hanger to run some stereo stuff to that side. The floor comes up very easily without having to unbolt anything. Just lift from the plug access port til the floor comes up off the ground just barely over the lip of the section towards the bow. Keeping it as close to the floor and as level as possible, still raised enough to clear that front lip, wiggle it and slide it forward towards the bow. Piece of cake. Now you have wide open access to everything you need to get at all the way through to the engine compartment.

[cwarndahl]

Swat what it that on the back on the exhaust?

[swatguy]

its a Fresh Air Exhaust. I have had it on all my boats since FAE started(4 Boats now...was a rep for another wakeboat mfg'r before I picked up my current boat). To me its worth every penny on the noise reduction alone. I can have a normal conversation without any yelling at all in the cockpit at wake speeds, surf speeds, and ski speeds. I would say its half if not more or a reduction in exhaust noise. Especially when I surf and wakeboard. Next to zero noise coming at me while on the rope as well. Its big in the wakesurf community, arguably a must have, but it works perfectly for boarding as well.

People will argue it doesn't affect the CO level as much as they claim. However I notice a huge difference in the way I feel on boats with it when we surf all day and boats without it. There is also less of an exhaust smell around the boat while at idle swapping riders. I know CO doesn't have a smell, but exhaust does and its def less.

http://www.freshairexhaust.com

[cwarndahl]

Thanks I'll check it out my 01 x10 has a carb so any thing I can do especially since I am upgrading ,y ballast to surf

[swatguy]

The only thing I will recommend is not getting the cheaper powdercoated finish. Get the polished finish. No matter what I have done, the portion that sticks down in the prop wash Always seem to chip off from the trubulance of the prop wash. They didn't offer that finish back when I picked mine up 5 yrs ago.