Pro's & Con's of going from XR Sportmasters to Arneson's?

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04-15-2009, 09:29 AM

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u can put em on mine.

You don't have enough power to turn ONE with BOTH of your motors. You need to step up the power!

04-15-2009, 11:15 AM

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Thanks Rik, it's been a long process but coming together nicely...Thanks for all of your help....We've had them running and everything is working great....The interior should be in this week and hopefully we can get it back in the water either this weekend or the next....

They really look nice mounted and Matt was able to get things cleaned up nicely in the bilge....

WOW Those look good

04-18-2009, 05:39 PM

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burned my stock trans (both in 3 min) with blowers.. call Mark at bam when you get ready to upgrade..

04-19-2009, 03:01 PM

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burned my stock trans (both in 3 min) with blowers.. call Mark at bam when you get ready to upgrade..

Some how your trans had water in them though so... That and yours were BAM 900's not the 1350's that Jim has.

04-19-2009, 07:48 PM

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Some how your trans had water in them though so... That and yours were BAM 900's not the 1350's that Jim has.

should be good then..

04-19-2009, 07:50 PM

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speaking of water keep it out of the drives also!

04-23-2009, 12:13 AM

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looks great rik did you well can't wait to see some ## on speed, oh there are some funky soft sided ladders being sold at the boat shows that will fit any boat they say from a pointy bow to the sides if I find the paper work I will post it. but like it was said you can get cut by any prop. one other thing using the merc prop bags is a good idea as long as you remember there there

. nice job on the paint too. job well done rik.

04-16-2010, 10:15 PM

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So how did this project turn out? Were the arnesons everything they were supposed to be? How is the handeling? any increase in speed?

04-17-2010, 10:51 AM

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So how did this project turn out? Were the arnesons everything they were supposed to be? How is the handeling? any increase in speed?

Well for an update on the Arneson's yes they were everything that I was looking for. When comparing them to the XR's they handle better and docking is a breeze...

There are a few things that do change when starting off, for my application it requires using the tabs very little to on plane and they handle great when transitioning from 80 to 100+ with little or no hop at all which is a welcomed change and they do seem to get up to speed quicker than before...

As for top speed I'm not really someone who needs to know the top end but I'm in the process of upgrading the power from the whippled 525's to a new pair of Eddie Young's 925EFI's and should have some numbers when we get it back in Mid-May....

I had a little touch up and bottom work done including painting the bottom a color which really changed the look again....We picked it up from Visual Imagination (the painters) on Thursday and hauled it over to Eddie's shop in Nashville.

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