OK guys, i guess this boat is a 25 ft outlaw, it's a 1995 outlaw sst. no it's not supercharged, but 556 ci with serious cylinder heads, intake, stellings headers. i pretty much have built twin engine 30+ stuff for several years. so this single smaller boat is a new game. oh buy the way, i think i can drive and thottle this boat. this boat gets so violent that it blows the v belts off. acually sunday, blew all three off and broke the sea pump belt.
can you say......tow job.......
dave

If you are blowing V-belts you have a pulley alignment problem. I was running both of my engines at 5800 rpm for 2 months and never blew a belt. And yes IMCO now makes a drive that is 3 inches shorter. You probably have one belt that came off and that belt took the others out. Try someones 2 inch shorter drive and if you like it and the boat comes on plane good with a 4 blade prop then buy the 3 inch shorter one. If need be you can shim it down 1/2 or 1 inch. Y ou will probably gain at least 5 mph and greatly improve your handling. With my glastron I ended up raising the prop 5 inches. ( 2 1/2 with recutting transom and 2 1/2 with alpha SS ) Baot was unbeleavable.

To raise the x-dimension don't you have to seal up the transom and re-cut it?? That would be spendy I would think!

In the old days, yes. It would be a pain in the ass...But IMCO has available different length lower units which effectively changes the x-dim.

Thanks BD. I kind've thought that, but didn't know how much you can raise with just the lower end unit.....What do they cost anyway??

Tank

Tank, if you go to the water with that 23 Mirage you better have a rev limiter set. Not sure how hard you want to spin that motor, but I saw 5600 rpm with that same prop. You will be into the 6k. Also, it is going to handle like a 3 wheeled shopping cart

LOL! Allan where the hell do you come up with this stuff man??!! "three wheeled shopping cart"! I'm going to try to get some bigger 4 blades...plus I'm just going to chill untill it's broken in right

HeHeHe.........there is a 24 hour twisted circus occuring between my ears, all are welcome.........

Hey, I just blasted one of my buddies on the "Cincinnati Poker Run" thread in general discussion. go have a peek. If I had any idea how to post it here, I would. Daze, don't even waste you time trying to explain it to me........ I plant bushes for a living while I am not out beating on my mule.......

The bottom 4 inches of the transom on the glastron was bad -- So while I was replacing the transom --why not raise the X. It was 1/2 inch low ( cavitation plate was actually 1/2 inch below the pad. ) So I recut it 2 1/2 inches up.

Doctor Dave I would love to know what these guys are doing to solve these problems. I have a 24 Outlaw with some big power And I have the same problem..........Right around 70+ I get chine walk some times I can drive throught it but most of the time I can't. I have a imco 2" shorter drive and I think it's worse with that on it feels like the boat is to wet. I have to trim the hell out of it to bring the bow up. I went back to the stock case. I have tried 4 bladded and 3 bladded props. tried every type of water conditions still the same thing. tried using tabs in every position. Nothing seems to work well enough to feel safe.

My thoughts are that the 24-25 outlaw are meant to run 65-67mph. I think there is to much deadrise for a boat that small Great cruising boat for the rougher stuff. I could be way off on this theory but I will not give up I will try to solve things out. If I learn anything I will tell you.

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