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Just my 2 cents on this. Our boats have the water-bypass behind the Pilot chair, not in front of the seating position like on PWC's where you can see the water by-passing while driving. In a boat with the by-pass to the rear changing the deflection angle makes it harder and takes longer to turn around, lean out and find the water stream below the rub-rail. The OEM by-pass is sort of easy to spot quickly but any more time looking backward trying to locate the stream from a 90 is less time looking frontward. I think the 45 is similar to the OEM deflection angle but it will still take longer to spot than the OEM unit. The installation however is really simple if you can fit into the hold and have the right size fitting and proper tools.
I watched same video as @seanmclean and also had to grind out the holes a little like in the video.
I was able to get myself in there on my 21ft but it was not fun at all. I’d recruit a capable kid to tighten everything up in there while you line the fittings up on the outside of the hull.