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Old 10-02-2010, 01:08 PM
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The bravo shop has a new owner (Waconda), John Pfahl is his name, great guy! I would recommend giving the NEW Bravo Shop a shot at your friends drives. John has fixed the problems with the original Bmax and has done some upgrades as well. http://bravoshop.net/
he is currently using them

I think sometimes people expect too much from thier drives. Case in point tripple 800s on a 45 boat. Mecury uses a Number six on that kind of power. No question the Bmax is a much stronger drive than the Bravo XR. But not sure if blaming the drive for a big heavy boat with big supercharged power is fair.
do you have $60k x 3 you can give him??? the boat came with b-max's
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Old 10-02-2010, 02:57 PM
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Originally Posted by moses0324
friend of mine has a 45ss with trip 800hp supercharged motors...he goes thru b-max's like they are underwear.

he has broken 3 this year alone...mind you he only takes the boat out 5-6 times a year
What is he breaking the lowers?
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Old 10-02-2010, 06:46 PM
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Then he needs throttle lessons!
hahaha no offense but he has probably had more go fast boats than a lot of members on here including you (this is his 10th-12th)...i dont think he needs throttle lessons

What is he breaking the lowers?
yea all broken lowers...
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Old 10-02-2010, 07:25 PM
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T-838hp 834 ft lb. blower motors in a 36' Apache, 10,500 lbs dry. I've owned them since new in 2006 and just hit the 260hr mark. Blew an upper 2 years ago when the drives had 200 hours. Had 1 issue with a lower at 100 hrs but it was a cheap fix. I replace lower gears ever other season and lower bearings each season. Overall I'm very happy with them.

By comparison, I couldn't get IMCO Extreme SC's to last more than 20hrs befor popping. They were junk.

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Old 10-02-2010, 07:28 PM
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Originally Posted by moses0324
yea all broken lowers...
With the exception of the vertical shaft, most the parts in the lower are Merc.

Does he have the carbon steel prop shafts or the SS?
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Old 10-02-2010, 07:52 PM
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With the exception of the vertical shaft, most the parts in the lower are Merc.

Does he have the carbon steel prop shafts or the SS?
to be honest...i dont know.

i know that he has 2 backup units for then the 3 on-board kick the bucket. the last poker run he blew one and a second was stuck in forward.
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Have him give me a call.
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One of my favorite videos.....
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Originally Posted by Back4More
One of my favorite videos.....
Thanks Man!

I really wish we had the video cameras going this day about a month ago. Starts to get interesting around page 13.; http://lucididee.zenfolio.com/p357488671
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Originally Posted by Back4More
One of my favorite videos.....
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