project baron
09-15-2008, 04:43 PM
#11
traviss here. God I love these boats, Hell my motor is running better and better each year.. got up into the lower 80's this summer.
I will donate my motor for a project just to woop on Tripple digs
LOL!
I am curious about a surface drive in this hull, I now have a alpha SS and the only way to get bow lift is with a laserII, and its is handful to drive, I would think with a surface drive it would just skate all over the water?
I was curious what other 185 xlts are out there running over 80 and what they have for power.
Didn't the orignal powerquest builder of these 185's have a boat that had a BB and surface drive?
I will donate my motor for a project just to woop on Tripple digs
LOL!I am curious about a surface drive in this hull, I now have a alpha SS and the only way to get bow lift is with a laserII, and its is handful to drive, I would think with a surface drive it would just skate all over the water?
I was curious what other 185 xlts are out there running over 80 and what they have for power.
Didn't the orignal powerquest builder of these 185's have a boat that had a BB and surface drive?
Last edited by mountainmadness; 09-15-2008 at 04:48 PM.
09-15-2008, 05:13 PM
#13
If you like pics here are some of mine, can't post pics here so click this link and you should see some..
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/inde...lbumId=1117971
http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/inde...lbumId=1117971
09-15-2008, 05:20 PM
#14
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Hey Travis hows it going.
My older biother was the designer and builder of the Barons.I owned the blue one in the pics that was a 78 .I bought it used out of St Clair shores in 83 and repainted it and ran it for two years before i moved to Florida and sold Todd aka Baronmarine it .He built a 406 and put a Arneson on it.
With the little 3 blade prop he was running and a 406 through stock manifolds he was running low 80s.
I never went out on Lake Michigan with Todd on it but he says it is a runnin machine now with the surface drive.
How much shorter is the SS ? and what kind of speed improvement did you see over your old one and did ypur old one have a nosrcone.
The 1st hull being tested on Reeds Lake in Grand Rapids the day before Thanksgiving 1977
My older biother was the designer and builder of the Barons.I owned the blue one in the pics that was a 78 .I bought it used out of St Clair shores in 83 and repainted it and ran it for two years before i moved to Florida and sold Todd aka Baronmarine it .He built a 406 and put a Arneson on it.
With the little 3 blade prop he was running and a 406 through stock manifolds he was running low 80s.
I never went out on Lake Michigan with Todd on it but he says it is a runnin machine now with the surface drive.
How much shorter is the SS ? and what kind of speed improvement did you see over your old one and did ypur old one have a nosrcone.
The 1st hull being tested on Reeds Lake in Grand Rapids the day before Thanksgiving 1977
Last edited by tommymonza; 09-15-2008 at 05:24 PM.
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09-15-2008, 05:26 PM
#16
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More of Problem Child
Travis is there anyway I could get you to take a accurate propshaft center line to bottom of the boat measurement.Do you have any problem with cavitation coming out of the hole?
Travis is there anyway I could get you to take a accurate propshaft center line to bottom of the boat measurement.Do you have any problem with cavitation coming out of the hole?
Last edited by tommymonza; 09-15-2008 at 05:28 PM.
09-15-2008, 05:59 PM
#17
09-15-2008, 06:03 PM
#18
Propshaft is 6 inches below the boat, no cavitation at all coming out of the hole, unless I goof around I can make her spin up like a god damn drag boat LOL!
I will remeasure the propshaft measurment tommorrow just want to double check, its right out in my shop, tonight is my birthday dinner so I am outta here.
Racer
