4th of July pics of my 37!
#11
Registered
VIP Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Mt Juliet, TN
Posts: 2,159
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Single step. Last weekend was the first time that I have been able to hammer on it multiple times north of 110mph. From what I learned in those two days.....if you did not have the boat set correctly at around 90......more throttle and eventually correct trim/tab settings would not get the boat back in shape. When you got everything set on the money around 90 and the boat stabilized....you were cleared to get on it like you stole it and it ran like it was on rails all the way up from there. After I bought he boat, I changed the throttles and shifters over to the new livorsi race throttles with 2 buttons in the throttles. I hooked the drives to one and tabs to the other. That way, I never have to take my hand off the sticks. I was very uncomfortable when I first got it taking my hand off the throttles (tabs and drives were not on the throttle) to "play the piano" at high speeds. The previous owner had no issues with it....but he had about 800 hrs in the 37 hull in both bravo and #6 so I am sure his skill level was/is above mine. We were all running up a canyon last weekend for miles....when I would throw it into a turn hauling azz.....I could pick the tabs up...then put them back down and drag them a little (which the boat likes) when I got back into a straight away. I really like the single step. Again, in my experience...most multiple step boats in this size range were designed to go as fast they could make them go with 500 to 700hp powerplants. When you put big power in them....they get squirrelly above 100mph because the hulls make too much lift at higher speeds.
#12
Registered
VIP Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Mt Juliet, TN
Posts: 2,159
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Beautiful boat, I take it you bought this boat from the Chicago area from Eagan (I think that is correct spelling). He used to do fly-by's when we would hang out on the east shore of Lake Michigan. The boat ran well. We overnighted in New Buffalo alot which is where he kept it on a lift. I made him offers about 2 years ago when he had just bought the Teague motors and he decided to keep it. Congratulations, awesome boat!!!
Last edited by thunderusone; 07-09-2009 at 04:29 PM.
#13
Registered
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Wi/ Fl Keys
Posts: 3,231
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
These boats are sensitive to trim and tab, will the boat porpoise? If the settings aren't correct for the speed any boat will. As Mike explained to me there are speeds the boat doesn't want to be at, my triple engine boat was 45-50mph, just needed to bring the drives in and add some tab.
#14
Geronimo36
Gold Member
#15
Registered
Platinum Member
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Clinton, Iowa / LOTO 20MM
Posts: 356
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
#18
Registered
VIP Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Mt Juliet, TN
Posts: 2,159
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
They suck! I have had to change the oil in the last 30 hours of running! I feel like something is wrong....all I do is wash it....put gas in it...and go to the lake. These motors and the ones built by Young Performance around here are the only big power that is not swinging from the end of a chain. What am I doing wrong?
#19
Registered
VIP Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Mt Juliet, TN
Posts: 2,159
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
#20
Registered
They suck! I have had to change the oil in the last 30 hours of running! I feel like something is wrong....all I do is wash it....put gas in it...and go to the lake. These motors and the ones built by Young Performance around here are the only big power that is not swinging from the end of a chain. What am I doing wrong?