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Handling is awesome at 120+. I have done no hull mods to the boat. I finally got the props at least headed in the right direction. I was running to much rake in the beginning. I just have an old set of cast Merc 5 blade wheels. Nothing fancy....no CNC or Herring. The boat still has more speed in it to be dialed in. I don't want to comment on how fast I have been. But I think I can come closer to what the boat will do at the shootout next year now that I know how everything works.
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Just an observation but yours?? I spent alot of time with Joe going over the Rockit and it is a very nice boat!!
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Come one Brother....let me enjoy it one more year before I have to go to third place. I hope you do.....that will be bad azz to see one with some real power in it. Im not buying you any more custom made prop nut covers as a boat warming present since you wont use them. I gotta stop the boat madness for a couple of weeks to get the 572 put in the burb and get it finished so I can run that mopar when I catch you at a redlight. All you are gonna see is 38" Mickey Thompsons throwing tractor cleats at your front windshield.
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Handling is awesome at 120+. I have done no hull mods to the boat. I finally got the props at least headed in the right direction. I was running to much rake in the beginning. I just have an old set of cast Merc 5 blade wheels. Nothing fancy....no CNC or Herring. The boat still has more speed in it to be dialed in. I don't want to comment on how fast I have been. But I think I can come closer to what the boat will do at the shootout next year now that I know how everything works.
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What pitch and size props do you run? I have a single step 37 with Teague 800's and it runs 110. I run 5 blade cast merc, 17.5 x 34 at 5900. If you are the same guy, someone at Teague said your boat runs well past 120. Do you have to drag a little tab to keep it settled at those speeds?
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What pitch and size props do you run? I have a single step 37 with Teague 800's and it runs 110. I run 5 blade cast merc, 17.5 x 34 at 5900. If you are the same guy, someone at Teague said your boat runs well past 120. Do you have to drag a little tab to keep it settled at those speeds?
95% of the time....me and my wife ride around at 40 to 50 mph and just enjoy boating like any other person on the lake. My setup is VERY dependable. I broke a tranny at Emerald coast year before last and other than that, I just put gas in it and change the oil. IT IS AN AWESOME BOAT!
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Yes, I still have to drag a little tab. I was running 120 at end bouys all 4 runs at the shootout. I picked up 3mph between the gun and the end bouys every run. I was also doing a standing start....not a rollin start on Saturday. I had a full tank of fuel on Sunday so I was driving it more aggressively. On my 4th run on Sunday, I lifted the tab at aroud 110 and laid into it. That was the only run out of 4 that I had a rolling start going 35 through the start with the props hooked up. When I lifted the tabs it got so out of shape that I pulled the throttles all the way back to the stops twice and I still ran a 117 at the gun and 120 at the bouys. They were hitting us with Radar 400' before the end bouys. I was trying to tie Eddie and I over did it. I shoulld have just left the tabs alone. If you watch the video of my first 3 runs ...it was like it was on train trackis. The 4th run got a little wild.
So what tuning are you doing on your motors? Pulley diameter tuning I take it?
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Come one Brother....let me enjoy it one more year before I have to go to third place. I hope you do.....that will be bad azz to see one with some real power in it. Im not buying you any more custom made prop nut covers as a boat warming present since you wont use them. I gotta stop the boat madness for a couple of weeks to get the 572 put in the burb and get it finished so I can run that mopar when I catch you at a redlight. All you are gonna see is 38" Mickey Thompsons throwing tractor cleats at your front windshield.