Can a reverse switch be added ?

[cirrhosis]

Have a 2010 challenger 255. The reservoir I boat in all the time has lots of driftwood that often gets sucked into my impeller through the grate(usually just the smallest pieces get lodged between blades which creates enough cavitation to have to limp back to the ramp to put back on trailer and remove stick) sometimes I am able to go under water and get lucky and knock out the problem but usually it’s just as quick to go back to the ramp.
My question is: is it possible to install a reverse relay (like that on my 800 rev snowmobile) or does the fact that I have a supercharger make this impossible?
My hope is a quick bump in reverse would un-lodge the wood 70% of the time.
TIA

 

[Joe Starbuck]

Seadoo just invented iDF on some of its PWCs It is a little transmission, in the drive train, that actually reverses the prop rotation for a few seconds to unclog the pump. Your engine will not run in reverse, it is a four-stroke internal combustion engine. It has very little too do with the supercharger.

 

[cirrhosis]

Seadoo just invented iDF on some of its PWCs It is a little transmission, in the drive train, that actually reverses the prop rotation for a few seconds to unclog the pump. Your engine will not run in reverse, it is a four-stroke internal combustion engine. It has very little too do with the supercharger.

Thanks Joe that’s useful info.
I left this question at my local brp shop (although they specialize in sleds and atv’s more than boats) a couple of days ago but haven’t heard back from yet.
Next question to them will be “can I get that idf on my boat”?
And then the next question “ will my first born be sufficient to pay for it”? [emoji6]
Thanks again.

 

[Joe Starbuck]

It is not physically impossible to retrofit iDF to your boat. Jeff Bezos is going into orbit after all.

 

[cirrhosis]

It is not physically impossible to retrofit iDF to your boat. Jeff Bezos is going into orbit after all.

It would be like floating in orbit with my legs floating upward flailing to find the missing parts that I drop while attempting to disassemble the drive train in an area as inaccessible as space[emoji6]

 

[MacSeaDoo]

IDF is part of the PTO ASSY would require that plus the control unit. I would also assume there may be other parts like a shortened shaft to make it possible.

I would assume it would assume the cost to retrofit would be astronomical.

 

[Joe Starbuck]

IDF is part of the PTO ASSY would require that plus the control unit. I would also assume there may be other parts like a shortened shaft to make it possible.

I would assume it would assume the cost to retrofit would be astronomical.

I see what you did there.