Devonaaron
Seaman Apprentice
- Joined
- Aug 1, 2010
- Messages
- 32
I am lookign for a prop to take me fast and maintain a good speed I dont really go on joy rides I always have a destination and might go about 15-32 miles round trip. I have a 120 1990 looper I just picked up the motor has a some kind of stainless prop on it but its so chiped up I mean a big chunk out of one of the blades on the black. Not trying to take that prop at wide open to test the waters. I had a 1977 85hp johnson on it crossflow of coarse. was running a 17 pitch prop at about 34 MPH. Needless to say this motor is way more powerful and that 17 pitch was stainless but very thick I kinda liked it because I had no worrie about breaking it or it wearing down in the sand. I am looking to get a ballistics prop basicly a speed prop very very thin blades and I think I could get away with a pitch up 1 or 2 because they are so thin. I think im going to need something like a 23-24 pitch I always go fast with my boat so am looking to get max pitch so I can conserve gas and get to where I wanna go quicker. My brother has a 19 foot Maxum bowrider with a XR6 merc 150hp and hes got a balistics prop his boat the thing must run 55MPH very very fast so with my new 120 looper im looking to push the limits and get the fastest prop I can for what im going to be doing. I dont want to over pitch it but just want it running at about 5500 at WOT.