Nice Job!

Rain stopped, had a beer, pulled it out, and she roared to life. Sounds real good.
Had another beer and now get ready to put her back in the water

Dodge guy eh. My type of guy. A few friends and me successfully derailed a lot of threads over there at cumminsforum. Lmao. All dodges myself. Except for a turbo coupe tbird and a dump truck.

Nice work.

how did the boat run?

Haven't been able to really run it because Eddie wants to check the tune before I open it up. We have not been able to get together as yet.

The 1.65 ratio drive was a bust, the boat is way to heavy. I put my old lower 2.0 B3 on it and went from 24 to 26 pitch props. The boat comes up pretty well, hope Eddie and I can get together this week

On my 26pc with not quite that much hp but it dyno'd 429hp/517tq, i turn a 2.0 b3 4x3 24 pitch setup. I am not sold on it for the fatties our boats are. The behavior is definitely different from my B2 with the big 21pitch prop she use to turn when the engine was stock. It gets on plane good but as she gets on plane and levels out i start pulling the trim up and start adjusting tabs you hear the boat actually grab. It sounds like what a car sounds like when spinning tires and then it finally grabs like when it bites it puts load on engine.

I am not going to lie i have contemplated finding a nice newer b2 lower and do a swap to test both. The boat came stock with a B1 but that was too small to being her up on plane. The later model 26s came with B2s so I upgraded to that which made a world of difference and would take any trim i would give to it. It may have something to do with how deep of a V and how skinny she is that she likes that prop to sit low in the water.

I am really curious how your brick works out.

The B2 drives do move a lot of water with the larger wheel, but I like the B3 because of ease of backing with a single screw.

Eddie just left and the tune is set. WOT is at 5050 at 46mph with about 20 percent slip (heavy boat). As before I wanted it to come up out of the water better and it does, over all I'm pleased with how it comes up now. Will try the original 24 pitch props some time later to see what the change is. So should have stuck with my original 2.0 drive all along. Guess I have a 1.65 lower to sell.

What was your speed before the engine work? Is the difference between a bravo 2 and 3 only the lower? If so I should try a 3 on my barge. Lastly is that the ideal rpm for a 502? I thought we should be shooting for 5200 or 5400?

Sorry I didn't get notified of this post.

Before the work I was getting about the same top end 45 to 47 depending on conditions. The Bravo drives all use the same uppers, you can put a B1, 2 or 3 lower on any of them. While there are differences between the X and XR's in the gears used for the upper, lowers for the most part remain the same.

The 502 should reach 5200, and I will change the props from 26 to 24 set, but in doing this I can over rev. The 24 set will give me even more hole shot then I have now. Figure in the next few weeks I'll change it and see what the results are.

In short going to the XR upper is the way I should have gone, but could have save some coin if I didn't buy the lower.

AllDodge, you might consider looking for an XR propset. 4 blade forward, 3 blade rear. They are not elephant ear props like the 3 x 3's. I put a set on my heavy 26' runabout and hole shot is significantly improved. Cruise RPM dropped close to 200 RPM for same speed. Lost a MPH or two on top end but who cares, it is a runabout. I went from 26" 3 x3 to 25" XR 4 x 3.