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Not knocking the scx its a good drive. I already broke a sc lower taking an easy on it plus i put to many hours on the bravo gears in the sc will wear to fast. I also sold my complete broken sc drives instead of a $9000 dollfar Bandaid fix. Was about to buy scx then fell in love with the arneson. Almost saved enough just waiting for the new scx to make sure its not better....or cheaper. But 99% sure the arneson is a better choice.
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Im a little confused over the knocking of the SCX drives verses the Arnesons? For the extra cost and rigging time, extra PITA with transmissions etc, has to be more weight involved verses a bolt on helmet and upper and GO! How much more speed do you think he's going to see on his Baja for the added expence just to look cool? I haven't heard of a broken SCX yet and with the SC lower no loss of speed.
It was up earlier in the thread, about speed vs. cost and reliabllity. The ASD's seem very hard to beat.
You can either go with:
1: 700 hp + IMCO setup at a cost of xxx $
Or you can go with:
2:Stock power + ASD's at a cost of xxx $, and then most likely have the same speed or maybe even a mph or two more.
And of course the fun one:
3: 700hp + ASD's at a cost of xxx $.
What would the cost of option 1 be, if that should run as fast as option 3, not to mention the life of the drives, pushing about 875+ hp per side though the SCX with SC lowers?
It's all in how you look at it.
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I agree totally with SkiDoc, Why aren't Dave's Customs coming standard with them? good Question!! They only run 130-150 out of the box??
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It is seen on new boats, just not normally as a "bravo conversion kit". Arneson makes lots of other drives , some sharing some of the same parts as the bravo conversion minus the stand off box which houses the transmission. MOST newer, more expensive, faster, boats build them new with room under the hatch for a transmission. Arneson was super nice to build a conversion kit for us. WE as typical bravo owners are just to cheap to afford the kit even though its well worth it.
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A lot of the new DCB boats have 1350's which merc sells packaged with the M8 SURFACE drive. Very similar to the arneson in what its acomplishing, it just looks different. Personal choice why they did not use the arneson, better package price using all merc. Obviously merc has a monopoly, it does not mean they are better though. The NXT, #6, Ilmor Indy, and BPM are all surface drives. Why, because they are better! IMCO's new drive based off the scx is a "surface drive" also. Why, becasuse they are better!
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THE ONLY SURFACE drive that bolts up to a bravo built boat is the arneson at this time. Thats what this thread is about. So if surface drives are the best choice (since every fast boat has them), and the only option for a bravo built boat for a easy bolt on kit is the arneson, then why are we having this conversation?
No hard feelings but people either have enough money for a fast boat/surface drives thats reliable, or we do not and are stuck with bravo based junk! Yes the SCX is better then other bravo based drives but not what everyone is looking for.
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I think the fact boat has to be converted, the price tag being around 45000-50000 and set-up might be trial and error with expensive props stops a few people from making the jump. I'm not saying people shouldn't use them and some people will keep pouring money into bravos just to break them. I have seen magazine articles where boats have been built with big hp and sold with imco sc's or Merc Xr's where you just know the owner is going to be constantly breaking them, makes no sense other than the extra price tag to go bigger right off the bat, Smitty