Kenny Lively
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It,s Awesome!
Fished a tournament this weekend and boat did great, still need to do something adout the prop I guess. Had a full load about, a partner, 20 rods, all my tackle (150+ lbs. tackle) 3/4 tank gas, 30 gallons of livewell water,(not many fish but lots of water), anchor, and other minor stuff you take w/you. Still running the 25 pitch Tempest plus w/all the plugs in on 225 hp efi. Hole shot with this load is super, better than my 901 empty, and better than any my other boats as far as I can remember, planes in 3-4 seconds w/load. Top speed 70 gps, top rpm's ??? 5800+ rev.limiter warning still goes off have to tuck the motor a little to bring rpm's down and speed down to 68-69.
Would like to raise the motor a little but can't afford to rpm's already to high. Motor is mounted on slide master jack plate and it is 25 3/4" from bottom center of pad to bottom of motor brackets. Water pressure 25 lbs at full tilt wot. Boat is steady at wot full tilt, no chine walk, nothing. I would like this engine to turn about 5600 rpm w/full load. I've been told it will loosen up even more when it gets fully broke in. How many rpm's will you gain if you move the motor up 1/4"?, 1/2"?
I've been told that if I go to a 27 pitch I will lose about 300-400 rpms and some hole shot. KENNY
Fished a tournament this weekend and boat did great, still need to do something adout the prop I guess. Had a full load about, a partner, 20 rods, all my tackle (150+ lbs. tackle) 3/4 tank gas, 30 gallons of livewell water,(not many fish but lots of water), anchor, and other minor stuff you take w/you. Still running the 25 pitch Tempest plus w/all the plugs in on 225 hp efi. Hole shot with this load is super, better than my 901 empty, and better than any my other boats as far as I can remember, planes in 3-4 seconds w/load. Top speed 70 gps, top rpm's ??? 5800+ rev.limiter warning still goes off have to tuck the motor a little to bring rpm's down and speed down to 68-69.
Would like to raise the motor a little but can't afford to rpm's already to high. Motor is mounted on slide master jack plate and it is 25 3/4" from bottom center of pad to bottom of motor brackets. Water pressure 25 lbs at full tilt wot. Boat is steady at wot full tilt, no chine walk, nothing. I would like this engine to turn about 5600 rpm w/full load. I've been told it will loosen up even more when it gets fully broke in. How many rpm's will you gain if you move the motor up 1/4"?, 1/2"?
I've been told that if I go to a 27 pitch I will lose about 300-400 rpms and some hole shot. KENNY