blown

HI Stephen congrats with the sale but sorry for your loss! Bet you have a ton of memories with it. Can you give any insight into the boat before and after ASD's?

StephenA

Boat handled differently after the Arneson install. Docked easier, felt much more hooked up. Props were further aft than TRS so they continued to push the boat in a chop. The TRS drives would leave the water forcing you to throttle back. Plus, never even thought about breakage. Great drives in my opinion.

blown

Very interesting to hear the drives remained hooked up more due to being further back, i would have expected that being higher up they would get airborne more often. Did you change power when the drives were swapped? Speed changes?

I'CE

think he was running 461 turbo engines, sure he can fill you in on the details

Full Force

iTrader: (5)

461 turbo engines, dynode 706 I thin k he said, needed a little tlc in the idling department, very cool setup... talked to him for a bit the other day.. never got it ptopped right saw 80@5000

StephenA

Yes, changed to 461 twin turbo motors with the Gentry stuff from Carson Brummet. Did run 80 @5000 rpm. Gear ratio was not optimal for that lower horsepower so changed to 1.5:1. Never ran the boat after that but I have no doubt that it would have run a solid 85. Maybe faster. Guess I will never know!

frickstyle

Cool, if I had the cash, I would have bought it for the drives, good deal.

blown

Stephen i wanted to ask about the aeration tubes, were those completely necessary or would the setup still work well without them?

StephenA

They were necessary for our setup. The small turbo motors made no horsepower on the low end. We needed to get the props spinning to build some power to get on plane. They would not be necessary with most other applications like blower motors or larger cubic inch n.a. motors. They did serve their purpose and worked well.