Re: What's your boat speed?
Me too. I think it really helps to get them mounted and dialed in just right. Because these vintage OMCs had the sort of odd 18" leg length, a lot of folks have too much leg in the water when they slap the motor on their 15" transom, at least that was my case. I go out alone a lot, so when I had the motor clamped as low as it could go, a 6 gal. gas tank, myself all in the rear the stern would plow through the water terribly and my fuel consumption was awful. Like driving with a flat tire. However, once I clamped the motor as high as I could on the transom, added a tiller extender and moved the fuel tank forward gas tank, my performance improved tremendously at all speeds. I actually do lots of low speed/idling off plane because of all the manataee areas, etc...but even at low speeds and rpms I still get pretty good efficiency. I'd still like to raise the motor another 1"-2" to get a bit more speed on the top end and to help me slip into the extra skinny areas, just gotta decide on the best/simplest way to do it. Overall though, I'm pretty happy as is.
. Well, not too crazy anyway.
