302 with 525 EFIs!! Any bets on Performance!!
 

Hi guys

I am currently in the process of repowering my 1997 302 with 525 EFIs. Any bets on what she will do?? I don't even know what props will work best on it yet??

I should have it all done in a couple months or so.

Anyone done this before ... if so, what props are you using??

I'm betting 90+ and you will be swinging 30's or 32's....

She will be a handful at those speeds so I hope you have external steering and some Kplanes.

There is someone on TBM that has one. Go over and ask him.

JayTee had a 29 Outlaw with 500's. It ran in the low 80's. (82 I think) So I say a 302 will run in the low 80's & should spin 28" bravo1's inward for best performance.

The member on TBM has 2003 302 with galley package,shorepower,pretty much all the goodies and spinning 30p Bravo's is pulling 81 on GPS, but I sure hope you are putting hydro steering and kplanes on it or your going to have your hands full.

Sounds like an interesting project, did you pick up the 525's new or used? Are they plug and play with the wiring? We put 500 EFI's in a friends 38 Special and I was surprised how easy they went in.

My experiance is that the 302 hull is faster then most give it credit.

With 496HO's they are in the mid 70s so I would say 83 to 85 with the 525's.

I stand corrected. I thought someone out west had one that ran just a touch under 90 with 500's?

That's correct.

As I recall, the 302 w/525's everybodys mentioning
( from Colorado ??) ran 85ish, and was a bit of a handful.

Ditto on the steering and k-planes ( 380's would be best,
right Jason ?)

Here is that 30 outlaw that was for sale a year or more ago.... 525's and ran almost 90.

Pad bottom and knotched transom on the 30OL

should see 84 to 86 mph. i had a 2001 with 500's efi best
was 84 on the gps.low gas, and buy myself. the boat was a handful it like to walk.

That boat is now in Houston and currently he's trying props he's got it running 81 on gps with 30p Bravo's

i could never get the 30's to have rpm's high enough to get the speed over 81 or 82. i put a set of 4 blade herring's that
where at 29's to get to 84.

Get that nose a little highter & it will go into orbit.

I think you must be thinking of the 35...the
30 doesnt have a notch, although 1 was made,
( I think it had 6.2's in it )
and Hawkeye converted a salvage boat to one.

Take more power than that to run a true 90mph Mid 80's though.

I drove the boat from Colorado in 2006 just before it went back to the bank.. with 7 good sized men and low fuel I got it to run 82 on the gps speedo...It did want to chine walk some but I was able to steer out of it, that is a awesome setup IMO with the 525's..