B-max Horse Power
10-02-2010 | 01:08 PM
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The bravo shop has a new owner (Waconda), John Pfahl is his name, great guy! I would recommend giving the NEW Bravo Shop a shot at your friends drives. John has fixed the problems with the original Bmax and has done some upgrades as well. http://bravoshop.net/
I think sometimes people expect too much from thier drives. Case in point tripple 800s on a 45 boat. Mecury uses a Number six on that kind of power. No question the Bmax is a much stronger drive than the Bravo XR. But not sure if blaming the drive for a big heavy boat with big supercharged power is fair.
10-02-2010 | 02:57 PM
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10-02-2010 | 06:19 PM
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10-02-2010 | 06:46 PM
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Then he needs throttle lessons!
What is he breaking the lowers?
10-02-2010 | 07:25 PM
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T-838hp 834 ft lb. blower motors in a 36' Apache, 10,500 lbs dry. I've owned them since new in 2006 and just hit the 260hr mark. Blew an upper 2 years ago when the drives had 200 hours. Had 1 issue with a lower at 100 hrs but it was a cheap fix. I replace lower gears ever other season and lower bearings each season. Overall I'm very happy with them.
By comparison, I couldn't get IMCO Extreme SC's to last more than 20hrs befor popping. They were junk.
Oh yeah, 90+ percent ocean running.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExbZfhvYlsA[/youtube]
By comparison, I couldn't get IMCO Extreme SC's to last more than 20hrs befor popping. They were junk.
Oh yeah, 90+ percent ocean running.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExbZfhvYlsA[/youtube]
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10-02-2010 | 07:28 PM
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10-02-2010 | 07:52 PM
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With the exception of the vertical shaft, most the parts in the lower are Merc.
Does he have the carbon steel prop shafts or the SS?
Does he have the carbon steel prop shafts or the SS?
i know that he has 2 backup units for then the 3 on-board kick the bucket. the last poker run he blew one and a second was stuck in forward.
10-05-2010 | 05:02 PM
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Thanks Man!
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I really wish we had the video cameras going this day about a month ago. Starts to get interesting around page 13.; http://lucididee.zenfolio.com/p357488671
