Tonto

CHIEF 950's, if the drives won't take it...... get a different boat.

Dano

chit dat funny

Lou502

so let me get this straight everyone seems to be in agreement go with the 500 EFI s or for how much $$$ more go with 525 EFI s ?

cigarette1

The 525EFI would be the Bomb Exspensive, but closed cooling and SmartCraft .... nice

cbdragon

Blue and warranty, close cooling and SmartCraft. They tell me that new 496HO has great throttle the last 70 to 90%. cb

LapseofReason

YES paint the boat white, get white seats and get the 525 ITS XR drives speed master lower's good prop's. Then next year put some color on it, it is a lot easyer to get the wife/girl to want to make it look better than to make it faster.

LapseofReason

The setup I want for you should go low to mid 90's in that boat. 496's and B1's high 70's low 80's max.

searace

Hawk HP-600's. EFI, Merlin 3 tall deck, merlin heads, MEFI 3 injection, Prelubber, sonic water flush, Stainless exhaust, custom colors std., and.... 3 year warrantee. As featured in May's powerboat Mag. $23,455

the Hawk HP-600 dynos between 625 and 630 hp with 690 of torque.

HAWK POWER
850-674-7474
www.searace.com

ToddW

I faced the same decision with our 37 Active Thunder. I would have gone with the 500s if I had the dough, instead went with the HOs.

Yeah, that rhymes

I did upgrade to the Bravo XZ drives to be ready for upgrades later. There are a lot of upgrades coming out for the 496HO that will give you more power for less than the upgrade to the 500s.

Lou502

what about Smartcraft ?