My old Boat (Smokin Gun) has 700HP 572's.....TRS drives 28P 4 blades....not 1 drive problem. Knock on wood.

My 1985 Mistress that I had made 675HP Put on about 95 Hours before I had a drive problem, then put on the Konrads and sold the boat

Then What can Konrads take??

I think TRS are stronger then people think....

The one thing I can say is Konrad's SUCK ! They SUCK , THEY SUCK . They are probably ok to use under 600hp but after mine broke I did my research and found six other OSO members that broke Konrads with only 800hp and low hours . One guy busted his with 8hrs on it and they charged him $7500 for the repair . Their service SUCKS and they straight up lied to me and said they would fix it for $4700 then it went up to almost $10000 . And before anyone come on this thread and starts BoHoing I've got all my text , PM's and emails saved so I can back up everything I'm telling you .. Further more the finish on the Konrads is the worst in the industry . At 3 years old it had the worst corrosion of anything I owned and when I ask them about it they said that it was because I lived at the beach . Well it sits next to my TRS of 15 years that still looks new , Three outboards sitting at my house that haven't corroded not to mention nothing else on the same boat corroded . Only the KONRAD !
DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY ! You want a tranny/outdrive combo Find a #4 or #5 . You wanna keep it simple light and fast and still be able to run 1000HP , Put a Imco SCX on the back .
If you want the links to all the other threads that have Konrad horror stories I shot you a PM ..

I would bet my left nut , and that my favorite one that a TRS will last and hold up better then a Konrad . And guess what ? when you break it , $500-1000 and your back in the water not $10K and the mercy of Konrad ..

As mentioned above, I went through 6 TRS drives @ 750 hp during the 2003 season. Installed a pair of Konrad drives Feb '04 and never looked back. Sold the boat in 2010 and it's still going strong. Never been apart. Pretty happy here. -My new Cigarette has XR Sportmasters, I go through 2-3 drives a season...

My Konrads lived three years behind 850hp... Same Konrads now pluged into 925hp have been running like a swiss watch!! About 10 hours and one poker run cruising at 80-90mph in an old straight bottom gun!

I don't know if it just me, but I don't hear much discussion come into play about replacement with Arneson drives when one of these expensive & and not so worth it
drives doesn't live up to a fraction of what it's supposed to be worth............ for all the guys in the big HP club I've never heard complaints about Arnesons not holding
up to the rigors of big power in front of it..........but I always hear (or have heard) the stereotypical, "too expensive, too long and docking issues "........myth????

Just for clarification on Konrads. My Konrad 540’s are the strongest version they make, HD uppers and lowers, Large U-Joints etc. They are the SSM3A Replacements - Konrad PRS III

Myth... Everyone that owns them and has posted on OSO has stated as much. Docking and maneuvering is better to same with the Arnesons vs. Bravos.