My new X-Power drives have arrived
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yeah. The drives are amazing. The crap thing is a valve stuck in one of my Ilmors and copped a bit of a hammering from the piston.
In keeping with my strategy to not be ever driving home on one motor - EVER AGAIN, I have pulled both motors out and am sending them to Ilmor to get overhauled.
In the 30 minutes of running though, I was blown away. The boat pulled out of the hole so easy and effortlessly ran at 80MPH compared to the old drives and props.
I was taking care to break the drives in when the motor said goodnight. I didn't even get a chance to give them a good hit and see what the top end was like.
In keeping with my strategy to not be ever driving home on one motor - EVER AGAIN, I have pulled both motors out and am sending them to Ilmor to get overhauled.
In the 30 minutes of running though, I was blown away. The boat pulled out of the hole so easy and effortlessly ran at 80MPH compared to the old drives and props.
I was taking care to break the drives in when the motor said goodnight. I didn't even get a chance to give them a good hit and see what the top end was like.
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110 hours.
Also, there was plenty of carnage when they came out. The input shafts were twisted. It must have had plenty of jumping waves at big revs in its previous owners hands. Lots of rounded bolts on the extractors too. The mechanic wasn't good.
I don't like that kind of thing at all, and not knowing the history its something I don't want to have to live with.
Also, there was plenty of carnage when they came out. The input shafts were twisted. It must have had plenty of jumping waves at big revs in its previous owners hands. Lots of rounded bolts on the extractors too. The mechanic wasn't good.
I don't like that kind of thing at all, and not knowing the history its something I don't want to have to live with.
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110 hours.
Also, there was plenty of carnage when they came out. The input shafts were twisted. It must have had plenty of jumping waves at big revs in its previous owners hands. Lots of rounded bolts on the extractors too. The mechanic wasn't good.
I don't like that kind of thing at all, and not knowing the history its something I don't want to have to live with.
Also, there was plenty of carnage when they came out. The input shafts were twisted. It must have had plenty of jumping waves at big revs in its previous owners hands. Lots of rounded bolts on the extractors too. The mechanic wasn't good.
I don't like that kind of thing at all, and not knowing the history its something I don't want to have to live with.
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Originally Posted by ToMorrow44
I think I might of skipped over the part that said the boat already has a 710 in it. In that case go for it and I doubt you'll be disappointed. As an example of customer service, Ilmore had a bad batch of valve springs in about 80 motors and the ones that failed and ended up breaking the motors, Ilmore took those engines back and gave out new ones. Definitely a good choice.
80 motors? I think I heard 20 and they ended up changing 10 motors in both directions once they figured which motors had the bad batch of springs..... But yes, perfect example. I've also heard from more then one person a story about Ilmor sticking people on a plane if one lacks a local service/repair facility. Absolutely an A+ from a service point of view.