Anyone had any experience with cutting down the skeg on your lowers?
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I cut the skegs down a couple inches, tapered and sharpened leading edge on these engines. Ran hull mounted water pick-ups. The tip of the nose cone was two inches above the bottom of the hull. At speed about the only thing IN the water were the skegs. Picked up 1-1.5 mph. That's running well over 100 mph in a 2000 lb rig and I was trying to squeak out each and every mph. Not worth the effort on anything heavier or slower.
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I've done it and it's easy. All you need is a good solid rock below the surface Generally I notice significant speed loss until I get the prop fixed
In all seriousness though, you have to be running triple digits and a pretty high X to gain speed by doing this.
In all seriousness though, you have to be running triple digits and a pretty high X to gain speed by doing this.
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Or a good sandbar running over 80mph will do the trick turns a Bravo drive into a shorty..