Originally Posted by hollywoodoutlaw

I've done some prop work on my 01' 25 Outlaw, stock 496 HO. Started with a 23 mirage plus, hated it......couldn't bury the throttle while hitting almost 5,200rpm and 68mph on the speedo and so much slip it wasn't even fun to drive. Called BBlades and said I wanted top speed and they shipped me a Mirage plus 25p 3 blade, got my rpm's down to 4,750 and was almost touching 72 on the speedo but still a lot of slip......I sent it back-they labbed it and cupped the blades for traction. Threw it back on with high hopes.......not.......rpm's stayed about the same and dropped down to about 68mph, I would imagine due to the cup they put in the blades. I will be sending the prop back soon so they can make adjustments (hopefully get rid of the cup) so I can get my rpm's up and mph up also. At this point I don't care about traction. Since then I tested a Hydromotive 24 4 blade which was ok (68mph at 5,150rpm) much better traction all around and much smoother. My must have prop for this boat is the Bravo 1 24p 4 blade I just purchased (72mph at 5,100rpm) excellent traction and all around better performance. I'm still going to get my 25p 3 blade prop re-worked because its free for the initial adjustments (sucks I dropped a grand on this prop tho) but I will most likely only run my Bravo 1 24p indefinitely. I will hopefully be ordering my CMI headers soon so maybe next year I can bump it up to a labbed 26. Hope this helps