Setting up a top gun
 

1993 Top Gun..standard drives.

I have head the the X is pretty conservative. Anyone use shorter drives with any success?

Also I have seen both 3 and 4 blade props run. What are you seeing the best over all performance with and best overall top speed?

Had a 94 Top-Gun with 600 Hawks and the 4-blade Hydromotives worked the best OVERALL. Both getting on plane and top end...
Regards :cool:

Von Bongo, my spare set of props are hydromotives 25's for bravoI if you would like to try them. let me know

later

Props
 

Hey!

Thanks for the offer, when it warms up a bit I will take you up on the offer!

I have been meaning to PM you so we can get together sometime when you are down at the lake. When you are going to be down for a few days let me know we can grab a bite of lunch or something.

Work - 573-348-2761
Cell - 573-434-9569
Home 573-302-2794

Talk to you later (no pun intended)

Mike Alford

OK, not much action here, what about adding sportmaster lowers?

I would think with all the cigs someone would have done some experimenting with this and the X

I'll be installing a pair of Konrad 540HP drives very soon. They are 1.5" shorter than my TRS. Sould be interesting, I'm going to try a pair of 5 blades too.

OK, now we're getting somewhere. Are you replacing TRS drives of bravo drives?

I'm replacing my TRS drives with the Konrad 540 drive

Biggus, I am very interested in your results and how the installation goes. Please give an update when you can.

Thanks

I played with X dimensions and extension boxes on several flat bottom (non stepped) hulls and did not get any better performance really. The best improvement was changing from TRS to Bravo and we went up 1/2" that seemed to work pretty good out of the hole and also good top end. One inch up I had too much prop slip hard to plane (lots of blow out) and less top speed by 2mph. Extension boxes and several X adjustments caused the boat to porpoise constanly. With 975hp a side and standard X we got 93mph full fuel, people, and adult beverages.

Almost forgot we ran Hydromotives and Bravo 1 4 Blades

Is that 975 a side with bravo's? On a top gun?

Going Cato!

Cato
Main Entry: Ca·to
Pronunciation: 'kA-(")tO
Function: name
CATO: A catastrophic failure, generally explosive, where all the propellant is burned in a much shorter time than planned. This can be a nozzle blow-out (loud, but basically harmless), an end-cap blow-out (where all of the pyrotechnic force blows FORWARD which usually does a pretty good job of removing any internal structure including the recovery system) or a casing rupture which has unpredictable, but usually devastating, effects.


:D:D

I crack you up? ROTFLMAO :D

Kinda what I thought but we never broke a drive on that boat; of course it never left the smooth water lake with that setup either. It did have alll the latest Imco goodies.

It was definately a time bomb though!
Is CATO an oil field term?

Cato is a rocketry term. You know those geeks that fire these home made rockets. It refers to a "catastrophic malfunction".

I don't have a clue about miniature rocketry but I saw that in a Discovery Channel show once and they described the term, I tought this might apply too more than rocketry. It seemed to apply here so I used it! :D:D

I hope I can use that word someday it sounds kinda cool!:D

Adult beverages ? How much did they weight ? Or are you telling us that you had a full keg onboard ! :D :D

There are days when you never have enough!!!
:D :D :D

His coolers are famous. It takes a tricked out golf cart to even get them on the dock!