I suggest you add the link to h.sie's "Realistic Repair- and Flooding Times (and more!)" thread:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=174225
Since this does some hacking of the Sh3.exe. (as far as I've read not definitively, but only at runtime) I'm sure alot of people like to know the details about it before they apply it.