Hot Dam!!! I heard about the house's but Drives too??????

HOT D A M N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thats awesome but big difference in a 31 American Offshore and a 42ft Fountain..

Yup now I feel bad for not voting for the King!!

Very true, I have a 13K pound boat with a pair of 525SC's and just lost my first drive at 250 hrs (basically my fault though) i do attest the life of the drives so far to a fair amount of prop slip and the boat still touches in the high seventies, i dont baby it either. I asked a prop guy once about my drives and he also verified the right amount of prop slip helps keep them alive.


750 hp though? . . . dont know about that one

I have a 4800# boat that has a 600sci in it, and my IMCO SC drive is living at 5.5% slip. I am very easy on it. I am about to step up the hp to about 750, and was told by the outdrive guru's to not let my slip get below 10%, and that I should aim at 12%+ just to be safe.

We shall see,

Chris

Thanks guys for all the helpful info.... after hearing all of you, I have made the choice to look for another boat with hopefully less repairs (one never knows though!).

There are two guys that I know on the Bay both with 700hp 100 mph 42 Fountains with Xrs or beefier & a 95 mph 675hp 37' OL Stiletto.
They all keep spare drives in stock, as well as plenty of full coolers for that inevitable 7 mph limp home.
I also had bad luck running over 700hp with beefed up billet Max Worx drives running high ratio and small props in our Kevlar Topgun.
I see guys with even more power in smaller boats doing pretty well with beefed up Bravo based drives.
The guys I know never see more than 20 or so hrs at a time running a larger rig with that kind of hp.
Good Luck!

Smart Move, My friend just received a 35zr donzi with twin 525s.The boat runs in the 90s and looks like a 9+. Great set up on bravos and will make many trips with a turn Key put gas and go. Good luck
Also the price was very right!!

Sounds nice..HotPursuit, got any pics?

Ok...I need to adjust my thread! What if the engines are 650's and have IMCO's not Bravo's......

Does this change anyone's minds, or opinions, interested to know.