walleyehed
Admiral
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- Jun 29, 2003
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Hey all, Haven't been adding much lately but ya'll know life gets in the way sometimes..
I've recently sold several outboards, sold some boats and bought a few I wanted. In all of this I still play with many different prop designs and on a recent issue of my own, I have been playing with a 19' pro-v Lund with a 150 johnrude looper and in a week I've ran 22 different props on this thing and when it comes right down to the numbers, I still have yet to beat a Turbo1... Every boat I've set up in the last 12 years that, either I or the owner, was wanting "more"... we still ended up with that darn Turbo1.
The interesting thing about this Pro-V I just purchased is that the Transom measures 22" keel to top. someone finally realized the issues with a 20" shaft and made that sucker so you "couldn't" get it too low. the problem I've found (those of you who know me know I don't run any junk props) is that a good-all around aluminum blows out...a Hustler runs higher yet still blows out and for about 239 bucks+/- you can run this boat 7mph faster with the same pitch Turbo1?? I don't sell precision props anymore so I'm not working any deal here..I have run Fury, Tempest, Trophy plus AND minus and the numbers are still better with that std ole' Turbo1. I've ran every production prop in alum and SS and short of Jon Mazar at Mazco custom building a prop with multiple test-runs and re-works, I don't think the old gal can be beat on darn near every application I've found! Not everyone wants to run SS, I understand that and yet, "I don't understand that"...
Some of you know the story of the stock 1981, 82 and 83 200 crossflow I built from parts of many different engines just to see how much you could get out of that old design. Made 242hp at 6500rpm on the dyno (most said it wouldn't go 100 hrs) but I ran over 400 props on that girl and this summer I just blew through the 2000hr mark, 100% trouble-free.
I've smacked stumps, fallen trees, mud, sand bottom, grazed some rocks-hit one big enough it killed it at idle.. and yet it still has the same gears, same prop-shaft (dialed out less than .002-I check it every year) so.. whats the beef here??? Doesn't matter what prop you run, if you hit the nose of the gearcase it's gonna tear something up. Aluminum will not survive but it's not taking the load and they will still bend the prop shaft if it takes a blow mid-chord.
I'm at a point where I've enjoyed watching members grow and learn here, I've watched a VERY good friend build this empire at/of iboats and move on, I've watched the knowledge base grow wildly among a lot of the guys active here when I was a Mod. It's basically a huge book of knowledge here.
Sorry for the rant guys, just glad to BE alive and amongst ya all!!
I've recently sold several outboards, sold some boats and bought a few I wanted. In all of this I still play with many different prop designs and on a recent issue of my own, I have been playing with a 19' pro-v Lund with a 150 johnrude looper and in a week I've ran 22 different props on this thing and when it comes right down to the numbers, I still have yet to beat a Turbo1... Every boat I've set up in the last 12 years that, either I or the owner, was wanting "more"... we still ended up with that darn Turbo1.
The interesting thing about this Pro-V I just purchased is that the Transom measures 22" keel to top. someone finally realized the issues with a 20" shaft and made that sucker so you "couldn't" get it too low. the problem I've found (those of you who know me know I don't run any junk props) is that a good-all around aluminum blows out...a Hustler runs higher yet still blows out and for about 239 bucks+/- you can run this boat 7mph faster with the same pitch Turbo1?? I don't sell precision props anymore so I'm not working any deal here..I have run Fury, Tempest, Trophy plus AND minus and the numbers are still better with that std ole' Turbo1. I've ran every production prop in alum and SS and short of Jon Mazar at Mazco custom building a prop with multiple test-runs and re-works, I don't think the old gal can be beat on darn near every application I've found! Not everyone wants to run SS, I understand that and yet, "I don't understand that"...
Some of you know the story of the stock 1981, 82 and 83 200 crossflow I built from parts of many different engines just to see how much you could get out of that old design. Made 242hp at 6500rpm on the dyno (most said it wouldn't go 100 hrs) but I ran over 400 props on that girl and this summer I just blew through the 2000hr mark, 100% trouble-free.
I've smacked stumps, fallen trees, mud, sand bottom, grazed some rocks-hit one big enough it killed it at idle.. and yet it still has the same gears, same prop-shaft (dialed out less than .002-I check it every year) so.. whats the beef here??? Doesn't matter what prop you run, if you hit the nose of the gearcase it's gonna tear something up. Aluminum will not survive but it's not taking the load and they will still bend the prop shaft if it takes a blow mid-chord.
I'm at a point where I've enjoyed watching members grow and learn here, I've watched a VERY good friend build this empire at/of iboats and move on, I've watched the knowledge base grow wildly among a lot of the guys active here when I was a Mod. It's basically a huge book of knowledge here.
Sorry for the rant guys, just glad to BE alive and amongst ya all!!
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