Anyone had any experience with cutting down the skeg on your lowers?

[jryan26]

Wondering if there is any speed to gain? I heard Donzi does this sometimes?

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

No speed , don't do it.

[4mulafastech]

Originally Posted by jryan26

Wondering if there is any speed to gain? I heard Donzi does this sometimes?

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.

[GLH]

Read on here somewhere relating to #6's that the benefit of modifying skegs (sweeping them back) only started above 120 mph

[jryan26]

This would be on a 39 topgun.

[Marginmn]

When the XR Sportmaster first came out there were many threads about how they were running 2 - 3 MPH slower than the standard XR lowers. The racers said they were having success cutting the Sportmaster skegs down and getting that speed back.

[VetteLT193]

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.

[Shanghied Again]

Originally Posted by VetteLT193

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.

Or a good sandbar running over 80mph will do the trick turns a Bravo drive into a shorty..

[shoregasm]

no gain and loss of stability......big neg in my viewpoint

[nocigarette]

good read....


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